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Products that Use PXE
Several vendors currently support PXE in their client management products. Some current products include:
In addition to these products, software tools are available to help administrators setup their own network-booting environment. These include:
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Client Management Services (CMS) includes all the server-based services and administration tools needed to setup an open network boot environment. You can deploy your favorite third party client management tools in a pre-OS booting phase. For example, you can check, backup, and restore critical files, perform virus scans, flash update a system BIOS, and more before the client PC boots from its local hard drive. CMS gives network administrators centralized control over whether client PCs devices receive any or all of their boot-up instructions from the network.
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- 3Com Boot Services
- Rembo Technologies Rembo
- bootix Technology BootManage
These tools include the PXE server side components and utilities to build boot image files. They enable administrators to set up a network booting environment to perform specific client management tasks using off-the-shelf utilities.
Argon has a series of papers on using Client
Management Services and Boot Services for OS deployment and client management. See the Boot Services URL at the end of this paper.
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