This topic addressed the GUI pages used for working with Machines. For technical specifications of x86_64 Machines that can be serviced by LSM, please refer to Serviced Machines.
LSM Machines are records unique to each x86_64 Machine (server, blade, workstation, PC, appliance, VM, etc.) in your environment that are to be serviced by LinMin Snapshot Manager.
Machines must first be registered for LSM to service them.
There are 2 ways that Machines can be registered with LSM:
•Manually (or via API) creating new records for each Machine, and
•PXE booting Machines with the proper Configure defaults selected. See the tutorial for how to register Machines by simply PXE booting them (while collecting their hardware inventory or Profiles)
This topic will show how to Register a Machine, assign it a Payload and set its State to Netboot Ready. To see how to service a Machine once registered and once a Payload has been assigned to it, please refer to the tutorials Capture a Golden Image and Provision, Clone and Roll Back Machines.
Reminder: only Machines with BIOS firmware (not UEFI) are supported at this time. UEFI support is coming soon!
To Register a Machine, go to Machines List and click Register a Machine:
Machine IDs should correlate how your organization identifies individual systems, servers, hosts, blades, PCs, workstations, appliances, etc. The examples in this User Guide are using arbitrary Machine IDs and other values.
Provide a Machine ID, MAC address, and optionally, Group, Description and other values:
Note the values of your newly-created Machine. If no changes are needed, Go to Machine Details:
Select your new Machine values and Commit Changes:
Now that the Payload has been selected and you have clicked Commit Changes, set the Machine to Netboot Ready:
The Machines List will show the Machine as Netboot Ready:
After powering on the Machine, the LSM splash screen appears showing MAC address, Machine ID, Payload ID and more...
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