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Customize the Tools menu. You can add commands to the Tools menu to open
commonly-used deployment programs and utilities. See Extending the tools menu on
page 79.
Deployment Console basics
The Deployment Console is your main portal to Deployment Solution. It is a feature-rich
Win 32 program with real-time access to computer resources, deployment jobs, and
package files, each represented by distinct icons to identify the status and settings.
From the Deployment Console, you can build simple or complex deployment jobs, assign
them to a computer group, and verify deployment execution.
Because the Deployment Console can reside on its own computer, you can have multiple
consoles running from different locations. The Deployment Console needs to be running
only while creating assignments or viewing information about the managed computers.
You can turn on the console, run management tasks, and turn off the console.
Scheduling information is saved in the Deployment Database and tasks are executed at
their scheduled time. If an assignment to a managed computer is made from two
different consoles at approximately the same time, the computer is assigned those tasks
in the order they are received. See Console options on page 82 to set refresh intervals
for the Deployment Console.
Features of the Deployment Console
The Deployment Console is divided into several panes to organize computers,
deployment jobs, and software packages and scripts. It gives you a graphical view of
your network and provides features to build jobs, drag and drop icons to schedule
operations, store and access jobs and packages, and report the status and state of your
computer resources. The Deployment Server includes three main panes, toolbars,
wizards, shortcuts, and utility programs.
Computers pane
Use this area to view and select managed computers for the Deployment Server system.
You can select and right-click a computer in the Computers pane to run remote
operations using Deployment Solution or to view the computer properties. You can also
create computer groups to organize collections of similar computers. See Remote
operations using Deployment Solution on page 122 and Computer properties on
page 119.
When you select a computer or group, a list of the computers in the group appears in
the Details pane and provides the basic information about each computer. The Filter
detail bar appears in the Details pane that helps to view computers according to set
criteria. When a computer is selected, you can view the computer status in the Details
pane, including a list of jobs that are running or are scheduled to run on the computer
and the status of each job.
Create computer groups by clicking Computer Groups on the toolbar, or
right-clicking in the Computers pane and selecting Groups. Click View >
Show Computers to display only computer group icons and not individual
computers.
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