[Casper] load balancing servers

[Dorey, Dustin]

Hey quick question on that, we have two different netboot images up on
our netboot servers, a 10.4 image that the PPC machines netboot to and a
10.5 that the intels netboot to.   That was the easiest division I could
think of to make sure that all machines netboot w/o and issue as about
half of our PPC machines would not be able to run leopard.  In any case
I'm wondering if load balancing in the manner you were talking about
would still work if I have multiple servers that are all identical with
the ID's all above 4096 for all netboot images?   Or will it only work
if there is one image?    Also will this work across subnets the same?
We currently are netbooting across subnets but only to one server.
Sorry for all the questions and thanks in advance!

 

Dustin Dorey

Technology Support Cluster Specialist

ISD 196 Apple Valley, Rosemount, Eagan

14445 Diamond Path West

Rosemount, MN 55068

(952) 423-7971

dustin.dorey at district196.org

 

From: casper-bounces at list.jamfsoftware.com
[mailto:casper-bounces at list.jamfsoftware.com] On Behalf Of Criss Myers
Sent: Friday, July 11, 2008 3:27 AM
To: Thomas Larkin; casper at list.jamfsoftware.com
Subject: Re: [Casper] load balancing servers

 

Hi, 

 

If you make the netboot id above above 4096 and put the image on both
netboot servers as their default image, then the netboot servers will
auto load balance between the two, the client will pic the quickest
image to boot from. 

 

Criss


Criss Myers
Senior Customer Support Analyst (Mac Services)
Apple Certified Technical Coordinator v10.5
LIS Business Support Team
Library 301
University of Central Lancashire
Preston PR1 2HE
Ex 5054
01772 895054




>>> On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 12:16 AM, in message
<487651EC020000390000048B at gwoes4.kckps.org>, "Thomas Larkin"
<TLARKI at kckps.org> wrote:

Anyone done this with casper yet through the JSS?  I want to have
multiple netboot and image servers in one subnet and use mass edit for
the auto run data.  So I have two servers set up, both on the same
subnet but with different IP ranges on different DHCP ranges both behind
NAT routers. 

As far as I can tell, the JSS will point new netbooting clients to the
other server, but how will it know to do so, and at what point does it
start to auto balance?

thanks,

Thomas Larkin
TIS Department
KCKPS USD500
tlarki at kckps.org
cell:  913-449-7589
office:  913-627-0351

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