OPSI features questions

[Walid.Aldaraghmeh]

Dears,

I am new to OPSI and I am trying to evaluate the OPSI features; I am done with the setup and I have already created and deployed a software package to the managed clients, however I have few questions I am missing as below:

1) Is it possible to create a schedule for the software deployment ? the purpose is to have the deployment process start after the business hours so I want to have a method to setup a schedule for the deployment to start automatically at 5 PM for example.
2) Regarding Imaging process, I have a remote sites where it's impossible for me to push the image with huge size over the WAN links, on the other hand I dont want to use local IT people to do the imaging manually as I want it to be done automatically through OPSI, what are the best practices to overcome this issue ?

Thanks in advance for your help.. Walid

[bmsoft]

1) Is it possible to create a schedule for the software deployment ? the purpose is to have the deployment process start after the business hours so I want to have a method to setup a schedule for the deployment to start automatically at 5 PM for example.

Currently not directly within OPSI. Many ask for this feature.

You can use cronjobs on your central configserver.
Or you can check this tool: viewtopic.php?f=22&t=4307
For example: we use our existing buildserver for these purposes.

2) Regarding Imaging process, I have a remote sites where it's impossible for me to push the image with huge size over the WAN links, on the other hand I dont want to use local IT people to do the imaging manually as I want it to be done automatically through OPSI, what are the best practices to overcome this issue ?

Do you use the ntfs-(write|restore)-image packages? Or the new clonezilla integration? viewtopic.php?f=10&t=4392
The latter one will be more flexible and should fit your needs with some mod.

hth, lorenzo