Process Overview

In HPCA, the process of managing operating systems has four steps:

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.

See Preparing the Reference Machine.

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.


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.

See Publishing Operating System Images.

You can then use the HPCA console to deploy operating system images to groups of managed client devices in your environment.

See Managing Operating Systems .

The focus of this chapter is preparing and capturing OS images. Publishing and deployment are discussed in the chapters noted above.


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