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Systems→ Capture→ Capture Function

Description

The Systems→ Capture→  Capture function captures a selected target system and creates an image in the selected storage unit. You can use this image when provisioning multiple target systems or when recovering the selected target system. When capturing a system, you must determine the capture mode (sector mode or file mode) and capture purpose you want to use.

Prerequisites

• The target system is in an Up, Admin, or Capture Failure state. For more information about states, see "Systems→ Properties→ List Function."
  
  
• The image storage must exist.

Operations and Inputs

NOTE: (*) indicates a required field or task.

1. Select a Service Tag representing the system to capture. 
   
   
2. Enter the following parameters for image capture.
   
   
   • Image name (*) — The intended name of an image file to be stored in the image storage.
     
     
   • Description — The description of the image, target system, or any other relevant information.
     
     
   • Capture mode (*) — The method to be used to copy the image date. Select File mode or Sector mode.
     
     
   • Storage location (*) — The storage location to store the image.
     
     
   • Capture Purpose (*) — The use for the image to be captured. Select Capture image for deployment to other servers or Capture image as a backup to be restored to this server.
     
     

     NOTE: The Capture image for deployment to other servers option uses Sysprep for capturing Microsoft® Windows® 2000 and Windows Server 2003 operating system images. This option does not use Sysprep for Red Hat Linux images. See "About Sysprep" in "Capturing Images" for more information about Sysprep.

     NOTE: The Capture image for deployment to other servers option is not available for systems in the Admin state.

3. Click Capture.
   
   
4. Click Confirm to capture the image.

Expected Results

An image is captured from the system. 

• If the system was captured for deployment, the system is rebooted, captured, and booted to the Wait for Configuration state. You must apply a configuration to the system to boot it back to the Up state.
  
  
• If the system was captured for backup, the system is rebooted, captured, and booted to the Up state.

Possible Errors

Messages similar to the following may appear. The wording may vary.

Capture Failure: An error happened during image capture.

Subsequent Operations

N/A

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