Installing and configuring ris

This utility will also guide you through troubleshooting; the dashboard will indicate whether the root cause is a broken link, faulty equipment or resource overload.

Its second best feature is the ability to monitor the health of individual VMware virtual machines. If you are interested in troubleshooting, and creating network maps, then I recommend that you give this Network Performance Monitor a try. Unfortunately setting up the RIS server is tricky, but it worth the effort because RIS will reduce your total cost of ownership.

To create a RIS image of a Windows distribution integrated with service packs, follow the procedures described in the following articles:. Similar guides can be found in Microsoft documentation for other OS version service packs as well. How to obtain the latest Windows service pack is explained in Microsoft Knowledge Base Article Similar download pages can be found in Microsoft documentation for other OS version service packs as well.

Optional To provision non-English versions of the Windows OS, you need to do some additional configuration when you set up the image on the RIS server. Basically, the RIS server assumes that you have files in an English path. It is from this second hard drive that clients receive the installer data in which to install Windows over the network. For the following tutorial, we use Windows XP Professional. Make sure to have your Windows Server installer CD handy.

In the list that appears, double-click the item labeled Network Services. A new list appears. Place a check in the item labeled Remote Installation Services. Click Next to run the installation.

You may be prompted for your installer CD. Restart the server when prompted. In the left column, click once on dc You are informed that the DHCP server is not configured, and that we need to add a scope. You are also informed that this DHCP server must be authorized for use in the Active Directory, which we address later in this tutorial. Click the Action menu and choose New Scope. The New Scope configuration wizard appears. Click Next.

You are asked to provide a name and description of the new scope. Since this scope affects the guinea. Since we have already assigned many IP addresses to our test computers manually, we shall pick a safe range of addresses that won't conflict with any existing clients on the network. On the IP Address Range window, enter the following:. This gives our server 51 IP addresses that it can assign to client computers logging onto the network.

The Length and Subnet mask fields are filled in automatically. The configuration wizard now asks if we have any IP addresses that we wish to exclude from any assignments made on the network. This is useful if we were to have any manually assigned IP addresses that might fall within the range of addresses that we set up in step 8. Leave this area blank and click Next. The wizard asks for a lease duration, measured in days, hours, and minutes. A lease is simply an amount of time that each client may hold the assigned IP address.

After this time period passes , the IP address is recycled back into the list of addresses that may be assigned to other clients on the network.

In order for the RIS to function properly, it must be told to respond to clients requesting information. Place a check in the box labeled Respond to client computers requesting service. Leave the second checkbox blank and click Next. The wizard asks for the location of the Windows installer files.

You are asked for a folder name in which to copy the Windows XP files. The next window asks for a friendly description for the installer screens that greet the user when he or she is installing Windows over the network. Leave the defaults, and click Next. The last screen displays a summary of the RIS configuration. Click Finish. The RIS server is ready to go! If your client computers on your network contain PXE boot ROM code, you may simply turn the client on, hit the F12 key, and follow the instructions for installing Windows XP Professional right over the network.

However, if your computer's network cards are not PXE bootable, you may still remotely install Windows by creating a PXE emulator floppy disk. You may then boot from this floppy, hit F12, and proceed to install Windows XP. To create the PXE boot floppy, we must use the rbfg.

Locate this program and double-click it. The Remote Boot Disk Generator screen appears. Recall that only supported network adapters will work with the boot disk. To check if yours is supported, click the Adapter List button. To create the boot disk, insert a blank, 3.

Once the disk is created, quit the Boot Disk Generator program. Make sure that your test client computer does not have anything important stored on its hard drive, as the RIS process does erase all data. Power down the client computer. Start the computer. If your computer contains a PXE network card, immediately press F If you're using the PXE boot floppy,. In order for you to install and join this computer to the domain guinea.

Enter the DC01's administrator username and password, as shown here:.