Mass Deployment Template DS-Client


Mass Deployment enables Enterprise/Service Providers to create a big number of accounts / DS-Clients on a DS-System, deploy the Windows DS-Client software in silent mode, and automatically configure each of those DS-Client software installations to ensure minimum time consumption for the end users.

Mass Deployment is only supported for Standalone DS-Clients (not for Grid DS-Clients).

From the DS-System side, Mass Deployment helps to speed up setup of DS-Client accounts. Instead of manually creating many DS-Client accounts, you can create one "Template DS-Client" for Mass Deployment and re-use the same connection information (or .CRI file) for all DS-Clients you want to deploy under that customer account:

1. A DS-Client is created with the "Mass Deployment Auto-Registration Counter" set.

2. The Auto-Registration Counter permits the displayed number of DS-Client installations to be created.

3. The DS-Clients will initially connect to the DS-System to register as the "Template DS-Client", but will be automatically assigned a different sequential DS-Client number.

4. This simplifies DS-Client creation in mass deployment scenarios: you only need to make one template, and all DS-Clients will be created with the same settings.

Refer to the separate "DS-Client Mass Deployment & Automatic Configuration" Guide (found in the Documentation folder of the release DVD).



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