Homebase Work Light 5.3.1 User Manual
HOMEBASE SOLUTION COMMISIONING GUIDE
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Table of Contents
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Table of Contents ..................................................................................... iv
1 Introduction ........................................................................................ 1
1.1 ABOUT THIS GUIDE 1
1.2 PURPOSE OF THE GUIDE 1
1.3 TYPOGRAPHICAL CONVENTIONS 1
1.4 HOMEBASE SUPPORTED INSTALLATION PLATFORMS 2
1.5 HOMEBASE AGENT SUPPORT INSTALLATION PLATFORMS 2
1.6 SUPPORTED INTERNET BROWSERS 2
2 Deployment Planning ........................................................................... 3
3 Deployment Guidance .......................................................................... 4
3.1 INTRODUCTION 4
3.2 UNDERSTANDING THE HOMEBASE PROFILE REPOSITORY 4
3.3 PHYSICAL LOCATION OF HOMEBASE SERVERS 5
3.4 HOMEBASE AGENT TO HOMEBASE SERVER COMMUNICATION 5
3.5 PLANNING FOR HOMEBASE PROXY SERVER DEPLOYMENT 6
3.6 NETWORK REQUIREMENT PLANNING 6
3.7 CONFIGURING THE HOMEBASE SERVER 7
3.8 CONFIGURING THE HOMEBASE SERVER COMMUNICATION INTERFACE 7
4 Validating a Homebase Installation ........................................................ 9
4.1 INSTALLING THE SOFTWARE 9
4.2 CONFIGURE THE INTERFACES 9
4.3 TESTING THE CONFIGURATION 10
4.4 BEFORE RECOVERY 10
4.4 EXAMINING LOG FILES 10
5 Obtaining Help .................................................................................. 12
5.1 CONTACTING THE HELPDESK 12
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1 Introduction
1.1 About this Guide
The document is designed to provide a framework of guidance and required
processes for the deployment of a Homebase server solution. The framework
includes advice and best practice collected from many source’s experience in
deploying a Homebase Server network. The framework also includes additional
steps and checks that a deployment team can under take to ensure that their
Homebase server is correctly conf igured
1.1.1 Homebase Toolset Introduction
Homebase is a sophisticated prod uct toolset that uses a server-based agen t to
profile the configuration data (sometimes referred to as the Server System
State) to recover an operating system in the event of a disaster or to migrate
one server’s configuration to anoth er server.
The server-based agents, Home base Profiler and Homebase Discovery, can b e
configured to automatically transmit generated Profiles to a Homebase
installation.
Homebase is the preferred secure repository for the receipt of server profiles.
Homebase provides a web interface that allows interrogation of stored profiles,
either on an ad-hoc bas is or for the production of regular management reports.
Profiles can be compared against previous prof iles, providing effective
configuration and change management analys is for any server.
Profiles can be selected from the Homebase repository for use by the
Homebase Recovery agent to r ecover or migrate a server to new hardware .
1.2 Purpose of the Guide
This guide is intended for the reader who wishes to gain an a ppreciation of
issues to consider when deploying a Ho mebase server solution.
For all components in the Homebase pr oduct suite the associated users guide
should be referred to for detailed information on configuration options.
This documents is not a replacement for the fuller functional description
provided in the User Guide documents.
1.3 Typographical Conventions
This section explains the typographical conventions used in this guide.
Monospaced font This typeface is used for literal text, s uch as URLs,
filenames, and command line instructions.
Italic font This typeface is used for emphasis , for new terms, and for
text that you must substitute for actual values, such as
placeholders in path names.
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