New Features for Provisioner 6.4

 

 

•Support for the provisioning of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.x and CentOS 6.x clients

 

•Support for the provisioning of multi-NIC Red Hat Enterprise Linux and CentOS clients

 

•Support for the provisioning of multi-NIC Windows Server 2008/R2 clients

 

•Support for the provisioning of multi-NIC ESX/ESXi clients

 

•Support for the imaging of multi-NIC clients

 

•Support for Boot from SAN (BFS) for RHEL/CentOS and ESX/ESXi

 

•Support for Boot from SAN (BFS) for Windows Server 2008 (requires the BFS patch)

 

•Client-side state reporting for Windows Server 2008 and RHEL/CentOS

 

•Automatic switching from dynamic/DHCP IP to static IP when clients are rebooted on non-PXE VLAN (Windows Server 2008 and RHEL/CentOS)

 

•Support for non-DHCP VLANs in multi-VLAN configurations: IP addresses for RHEL/CentOS and Windows Server 2008/R2 clients get changed from dynamic IP on the PXE VLAN to static IP on a production VLAN whether DHCP is running on that VLAN or not

 

•Unknown clients PXE booting to the Provisioner PXE Server can no longer cause a Denial of Service attack: when MAC-Independent provisioning is disabled, unknown MACs get logged but are ignored and do not get added to the "Licensed Clients" count

 

•Automated discovery of all implemented preparation scripts, packages, patches and license keys: these get displayed in "Help/About" along with the date of their implementation

 

•New network preparation script to detect existing network configuration values and prompt for unknown network configuration values: once provided, all network configuration files get updated and network services restarted. The user can then execute the server preparation script before proceeding to install the Provisioner installable packages.

 

•Imaging subsystem upgraded to the Clonezilla Precise, for enhanced performance and augmented Client NIC driver support

 

•Cisco version of the product name changed from Tidal Server Provisioner ("TSP") to Cisco Server Provisioner ("Provisioner")