Using NetBooting on the Mac OS X Server

摘要

Netboot is a valuable tool for any administrator. The ability to keep control of images in a central location can save incredible amounts of time, and keep users comfortable with a consistent experience across machines.rnIf you have the technical resources and wish to reduce your technical support costs and downtime then NetBooting is for you. It does require high technical costs but it also reduces the technical support costs as well. Since the client is never imaged, any changes are instant once the client is rebooted. Reverting back to a previous working version is as simple as rebooting the client. All testing and development is carried out offline and changes are passed to the client via a start-up disk change. All of this makes NetBooting a very appetizing system. As a support officer, you can easily diagnose a problem, and you can be guaranteed that if software works fine on one client it will be replicated on all other clients using the same Netboot image. Thus, (m)any problems will be due either to hardware failures or user's settings, not system OS problems. Reboot the client or login as a known working user and you can troubleshoot very easily. As a support technician, this makes so much sense and makes your life so much easier, making NetBoot a vital system of deployment for anyrnnetwork, large or small.