•Interface Layer:

oBrowser-based graphical user interface (PHP) for:

▪Creation of system-specific (“MAC-Specific”) provisioning role templates that define an operating system and optionally application installation and configuration

▪Assignment of provisioning role templates, networking configuration and business rules to individual systems

▪Creation of MAC-Specific imaging roles and business rules

▪Creation of system-independent (“MAC-Independent”) provisioning roles and client-side, pre-boot, manual OS selection screen

•Application Programming Interface with GUI-based “teaching mode”

•Scripts (perl) for:

oOS media uploading

oDriver integration

oProvisioner PXE Server configuration

•Services Layer (Java):

oWeb server

oLow-level services (tftp, ftp, binl, bootp, etc.) intercept PXE (Preboot eXecution Environment) requests sent by the client system or virtual machine to the Provisioner PXE Server and initiate action based on the business rules set by the IT user using the graphical user interface, or by external applications using the Application Programming Interface (API)

•Database (PostgreSQL) Layer:

oStores relevant information for each system’s provisioning and imaging roles

•File System Layer:

oOS Media and drivers

oControl/Configuration Files

oLog files

oImaging files