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Benoit Mortier Leila El Hitori
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- What is OPSI
- OPSI key features
- OPSI architecture and extensibility
- Deploying windows systems with OPSI
- Opsi license Management
- Installing an Windows system with OPSI
- Glimpse at future development
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What is OPSI ?
- Tool to manage your windows desktop et servers
- Written in python and java
- Licensed under the GPL
- Internationalized in 5 languages, German, french, english,
spanish, turkish
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OPSI key features
- OS installation from Windows 2000 to Windows seven
- Hardware Inventory
- Software Inventory
- Software deployment
- Multiple repository
- Scripting language to build deployement packages
- Software licence management
- Json interface to manage it
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OPSI architecture and extensibility
- OPSI is separated in several pieces :
– opsi-atftpd is customized tftp server adapted for opsi, only
needed if your tftp server misses certains options
– opsi-configed is the java management console – opsiconfd contains the opsi management backend and the
json webservices
– opsipxeconfd contains the opsi pxe service if needed – opsi-utils contains the opsi command line tools, those tools
also work for the most part on windows
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Deploying system with OPSI
- Selecting the system(s) to install
- Selecting the os to be installed
- Selecting the packages to be installed on the systems
- Looking at the inventory
- Installing the system
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OPSI Licence Management
- Desktop and server groups management
- Licence Management
- Licence statistics
- OPSI Server Configuration
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How it is working ? 1/3
Prepare the system to be installed
- Creating the system in OPSI
- Creating DHCP and DNS entries if needed
- Add the netboot package ( operating system ) to be installed
- Add locaboot package to be installed (software)
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How it is working ? 2/3
Boot the system
- Boot the system in PXE
- Mount linux filesystem
- Connect to a samba share
- Autodetect the hardware and create the windows install files
- Format a fat16 partition
- Copy the i386 in fat16 if needed
- Reboot, the classical Windowd install start
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How it is working ? 3/3
Reboot at end of Install
- Windows start
- The opsi client start and connect to the repository server
- Possibility to lock the login screen until the update/install are in
progress
- Login , ready to work ;-)
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Glimpse at future development
- Rewritting the backed to ease use in big environment
- Groups are more like the classical groupign of system with
profile and policies
- Bandwith reduction for slow links
- Better integration with GLPI and fusion inventory
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