In HPCA, the process of managing operating systems has four steps:
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The reference machine is the system that you use to create the “gold” OS image that can be deployed to the managed devices in your environment. |
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HPCA provides interactive OS image capture tools that enable you to easily capture an OS image on a reference machine.
See Capture the OS Image. |
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After you capture an OS image, you must publish it to the HPCA database. HPCA provides an interactive Publisher tool that helps you do this. |
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You can then use the HPCA console to deploy operating system images to groups of managed client devices in your environment. |
The focus of this chapter is preparing and capturing OS images. Publishing and deployment are discussed in the chapters noted above.