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New Operating Systems Supported | |
User Interface Changes |
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New Operating System Languages Supported | |
Upgrading to Remote Install Version 1.1 |
Remote Install version 1.1 supports additional operating systems for image servers and target systems.
For image servers,
Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 (Standard, Enterprise, and Web editions) is supported in
addition to Windows 2000 Server and Advanced Server.
For target systems, Windows Server 2003 (Standard, Enterprise, and Web editions) and Red Hat Linux 9 are supported in addition to Windows 2000 Server and Windows 2000 Advanced Server.
Table 1 illustrates the operating system support of the system components.
Table 1. Operating Systems Supported by Remote Install Components
| Operating System | Image Server | Target System | Admin Console |
| Windows 2000 Server and Advanced Server | x | x | x |
| Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition, Enterprise Edition, and Web Edition | x | x | x |
| Red Hat Linux 9 | x | x |
For more information about operating systems supported by various components of the system, see "System Requirements."
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NOTE: With Remote Install version 1.1, the system now supports additional languages. See "New Operating System Languages Supported" for details about how the language of an image server or target system’s operating system affects your use of Remote Install features. |
Remote Install can now manage target systems running localized operating systems, if the image server is running Windows 2000. However, the Remote Install software interface is always displayed in English.
The specific localized versions of the operating systems which can be managed depend on which localized operating system the image server uses:
An image server installed on an English
Windows 2000 operating system can
manage target systems whose operating systems are localized for any of the supported
languages.
An image server installed on a supported non-English version of Windows 2000 can manage target systems whose operating systems are in its own language, or in English. For example, an image server using Japanese Windows 2000 can manage target systems that use Japanese or English operating systems.
Table 2 shows the supported operating system languages.
Table 2. Operating System Languages Supported for Image Servers and Target Systems
| Image Server Operating System Language |
Supported Target System Operating System Languages |
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| English | French | German | Spanish | Japanese | Simplified Chinese | |
| English | x | x | x | x | x | x |
| French | x | x | ||||
| German | x | x | ||||
| Spanish | x | x | ||||
| Japanese | x | x | ||||
| Simplified Chinese | x | x | ||||
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NOTE: To ensure that the Remote Install interface displays properly, ensure that the Web browser that you use to view Remote Install is set to English. See "Changing Browser Language Settings" for instructions. |
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NOTE: When entering text, Remote Install accepts alphanumeric characters plus the underscore and hyphen. Periods may be used in domain names. Double-byte characters and special characters such as ã or æ cannot be used. |
This section describes changes to the user interface for Remote Install in version 1.1.
When you click on a system's service tag number on the System→ Properties→ List page to display detailed information about the system, new buttons can appear. These include the Abort and Recover buttons. Each of these buttons appears only when the system is in a state which would allow its use. Use the buttons to end lengthy operations or to return the system to a stable state after a problem has occurred. For more information, see "System→ Properties→ List Function."
The component tree's list of items has changed. For the current order, see "User Interface Structure."
The Install option on the RAID Configuration subnavigation bar has been renamed to Configure RAID. Use the Configure RAID option to apply RAID packages to systems. See "RAID Configuration→ Configure RAID Function" for more information.
RAID packages are now automatically imported when you install Remote Install.
The list of images and the image detail information page now include a heading titled Image Type. This field displays whether an image was captured for deployment or for backup. For more information about these two methods of image capture, see "Capturing Images." To display the list of images, see "Image→ Properties→ List Function."
To upgrade to Remote Install version 1.1, see "Setting Up the Image Server" and "Setting Up Target Systems." The procedures in those sections have been updated to cover upgrades and new installations.
Remote Install can automatically import images from previous installations of Remote Install. When Remote Install is reinstalled, if you create a storage share that uses the same path as an existing share directory, any images stored in that share directory are automatically imported into the database.
Table 3 shows the supported combinations of Remote Install versions on image servers and target systems.
Table 3. Supported Combinations of Remote Install Versions on Component Systems
| Version Installed on Image Server | Version Installed on Target System | |
| 1.0 | 1.1 | |
| 1.0 | x | |
| 1.1 | x | x |
Upgrade to Remote Install version 1.1 if you need or want to:
Manage target systems that use Windows Server 2003
Create an image server that uses Windows Server 2003
Create or
manage target systems which use a different operating system language from that
of your image server
Set up an image server on a system with a non-English operating
system
Resolve known issues with the most up-to-date software
Use the new error recovery features (abort and recover)
You do not have to upgrade a target system until or unless you want to capture an image from it. You can continue to manage and deploy images captured with Remote Install version 1.0.
Some target systems may have the patch release, Remote Install version 1.0.0.A. Systems with the patch installed use the same upgrade procedure as systems that have Remote Install version 1.0 installed.