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1.2.3 Deployment to any ready machines (event-driven
deployment)
You can set up deployment to start when a specific number of any machines become ready. Unlike
deployment to specific machines (p. 8), this way of deployment does not require knowing the MAC
addresses of the machines.
The software counts how many machines have connected to the deployment server and starts
deployment when the number of machines you specified (for example, 10) is connected.
This way of deployment is also called event-driven deployment or deployment upon an event.
You can specify a time-out period. After the time-out, deployment will start on the machines that are
ready despite the fact that the predefined number is not reached.
Scenario
Your organization receives 100 machines from a manufacturer. You want to deploy the operating
system and programs to all these machines at once.
1. You set up a deployment operation that waits until any 100 machines are ready.
2. You boot each machine into the Acronis environment, by using either Acronis bootable media or
Acronis PXE (Preboot Execution Environment) Server.
3. Acronis Snap Deploy 4 uses multicasting to perform the deployment to all machines at once.
1.2.4 Stand-alone deployment
The administrator might need to perform deployment to a machine that is isolated from a network
or is included in a network without an Acronis Snap Deploy 4 infrastructure (such as the deployment
server or the license server). A dedicated bootable utility enables a fully-functional deployment with
the graphical user interface on a stand-alone machine.
The master image for deployment can be located in a network folder or on a removable drive (such
as a DVD) on the machine you are performing deployment to. The image cannot be located on the
local hard disk of the machine, because deployment usually involves overwriting the contents of the
disk.
The Universal Deploy add-on is unavailable for stand-alone deployment.
1.2.5 Deployment with individual deployment settings
You can set up individual deployment settings (p. 129) for a machine. These settings will override the
general settings of the deployment operation (the deployment template).
Scenarios
Scenario 1
You want to perform deployment to several machines. For each machine, you want to assign a
specific name, rather than an automatically-generated name.
1. You enter the MAC addresses of the machines so that they all appear in the list of machines.
2. You select each machine in the list and specify an individual setting: the machine name.
3. You set up a deployment operation. Other deployment settings will be the same for all machines.
