Altiris CMS v7.1 on Server 08 R2
Image: Win 7 Enterprise SP1 x64
I'm more than a very new user to anything Altiris or Symantec in general, so please forgive any stupid statements or questions as I am pretty ignorant and have been left to simply figure things out on my own.
From my understanding of CMS I should be able to add a resource to the database. I am trying to add a laptop that has never had an agent installed on it. Basically I want to take a laptop out of the box, boot it first time into PXE WinPE, and push an image of my choosing to it.
My question is, how do I target a computer fresh out of the box? My WinPE has all the drivers and puts an "instanced" copy of the agent on the machine booting to the Automation screen. The machine then recieves a random hostname typically along the lines of MINITxxxx. Will CMS recognize and add this hostname to the resource database, so I can assign it the deploy image task?
Thanks!