Activating a deploy rule

The Auto Deploy rules that you create will become part of a rule set.

There are two types of rule sets:

• Active rule set

• Working rule set

For a newly created deploy rule to be used, it must be added to the active rule set.

How to do it…

To add the deploy rule to an active rule set, issue the following command:

Add-DeployRule -DeployRule "RuleIP-21-25"
Add-DeployRule –DeployRule "New01"

How it works…

Only rules in the active rule set are referenced by the Auto Deploy server when it receives an HTTP Boot Request. The Add-DeployRule command, by default, adds the deploy rule to both the working and active rule sets. When a machine boots for the first time, the Auto Deploy servers select the Image Profile based on a deploy rule in the active rule set. Once the Image Profile has been identified, it will be cached at the Auto Deploy server and reused during the future reboots.

There's more…

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