KACE Systems Deployment Appliance (SDA)
Please tell us how you’d like to see the KACE System Deployment Appliance product improved!
99 results found
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K2000 and Bit Locker
Issue: If MS BitLocker is enabled on the Client Computer, then when the BIOS hands off the boot process to PXE via the NIC and 'times out', then boots to the HDD, after it hits the pxe boot menu, this will trigger bitlocker.
Solution: I need a way for the BIOS to hand control off to PXE and once the PXE option menu is encountered and it defaults to the HDD, but w/o this process triggering MS bitlocker drive encryption.
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Adding a single SI/KI to multiple RSAs at one time
If I create a new image and I want to sync that out to all my RSAs, it would be nice to have an option to add that item to sync to "selected RSAs" or "All RSAs" instead of having to add the image individually to each RSA, which is painful when you have 10+ RSAs.
13 votesWe agree! This is great feature and the team is working diligently to get it into a future release. Stay tuned for more details.
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Custom Columns in Deployments area
Allow customers to change the width of existing data columns, add custom columns with pre-existing fields (i.e. date created, last date modified, last date used), and remove columns that customer does not need or want (i.e. hostname) all within the Deployments area of the K2000.
This would great help the organization of images, and the quick viewing of information for image rotation, updating, statistics, etc.
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Deployment-Wide, Deployer-Defined Variables
Would like the ability to create user-defined variables within a deployment definition (Scripted Installations, or System Images) that are valid for the entire process of deployment. These variables would be held by the K2000, not by the box being imaged.
Example:
As a pre-install task, I could determine the BIOS version of the box being imaged, and store it in the variable FIRMWAREVER, and then at any point subsequent, in a later pre-install task, or a post-install task, I could call %FIRMWAREVER% and have that information. This way I don't have to store it on a temp RAM…1 vote -
Sort filters
I think the K2000 lists should all have configurable sort options. I organize my deployments by name, so I would like to see this breakdown of the images almost every time. I keep having to select to sort by name. I think the system should either have a memory or allow a default to be stored.
The following are example fields that should be sortable:
- Deployments
- Install tasks
- Inventory dropdown menu7 votes -
k2 Off-Board Package Transfer 'backup now' option
Please include a k2 Off-Board Package Transfer 'backup now' option instead of having to edit the Off-Board Package Transfer settings each time to edit the time on the schedule.
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Multicast an image with multiple partitions
It would be great if it were possible to multicast to a hard drive with multiple partitions. In imaging our dual-boot computer labs we have to unicast the image which takes longer and uses more bandwidth. According to Dell it's a "software defect K2-5393", which In my opinion should be fixed.
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Peer to peer deployment
It could be useful when the network configuration is not multicast compliant to use a peer-to-peer protocol (bitorrent) to deploy images.
9 votesThank you for your suggestion. This has been added to the feature request list. We encourage others to vote as we use this input for prioritizing our release plans.
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Be able to restore the K2000 database
I just found out that you can not restore the K2000 database even though you can backup the K2000 database. I want to be able to have all my settings if there is a catastrophic failure with my server or just need to refresh the hardware. I have to recreate all my labels, users, Ldap authentication, all my general settings, date time settings, relink all of my RSAs and K1000.
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Increase frequency of updates to the KBE Driver Packs and notification when KBE's have been updated
When new Dell workstations are purchased, I have to download the drivers from the Dell website because the NIC or Storage drivers aren't compatible with new Dell hardware.
I'd like for the KBE's to be a step ahead (or at least even) with the release of new hardware.
Also, I'd like notification that a new KBE driver pack is available. A date on the Dell KBE download page would be an improvement. There is nothing now.
4 votesNote that the date does appear on the download page now. But this has been added to the feature request list. We encourage others to vote as we use this input for prioritizing our release plans.
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Capture Full Backup of SDA
Currently, backups are only done if a change to the item being backed up has occurred. This is incremental behavior. We should have the option to specify this behavior (via checkbox, for example).
What I would like is the ability to do a full backup of everything at will - scheduled or otherwise.
An example of a problem arising from the current solution is this: empty the Restore share and then try to back everything up. You cannot. If you offload your backup and then lose it, you cannot make another full backup.
Ideally, everything would be rolled up into…
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modifying task que list
I came across a customer where rsa updates had hung for about a week, after we rebooted the task que had a few hundred tasks to do. For all the rsa's I had to enter each rsa to cancel the update manually, and that did take a lot of time. If we could get access to the task que directly we could have marked all the items we didn't want to do at the moment, and deleted them from the que in one operation.
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Ability to apply K1 labels from the K2 as postinstall tasks
It would be beneficial to be able to leverage the label feature in the K1 at time of system deployment.
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70 votes
We’d like to improve schedulling and automated tasks across the board on the K2000.
I’m not as enthusiastic about supporting user state migration to non-K2000 storage. The advantage of the K2000 is that everything’s centralized. We already have export of user state in 3.3. If the problem is not having enough native storage on the K2000, we’ve heard that loud and clear.
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Dynamic MAC & Host Name querying between K1000 & K2000
Auto-populate Host Name of machines in K2000 System Inventory via K2000 query of MAC address in K1000 Computer Inventory.
17 votesWays to unify the identity of machines on the K1000 and K2000 are on the roadmap, and some have been implemented in 3.3. Unclear if MAC address is reliable enough to assure identity, what with ARP issues and the like, but we’re looking at ways to make integrated appliances work better together.
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name manual deployments
It would be great if we had the option to name a manual deployment. That way when multiple deployments are kicked off we can follow which is which.
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Quick view for all Dell models supported by KBE
Be able to click on a KBE in the K2000 and see what Dell supported workstations they will work on. Having the driver report is nice, but having to search for the actual network driver for the machine I am working on is a pain. Being able to see the model and OS the KBE would speed up this process.
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upload custom config.xml file for USMT
K2000 - allow upload of a custom config.xml file to better configure USMT.
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Please include an exclusion list for k-images
I would like to see the ability to exclude files from being included in a k-image such as pagefile.sys and hiberfil.sys to allow the images to be smaller
2 votesGreat idea, if we can make it foolproof so that the image is bootable. Need to have a “never exclude” list.
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