Running a Test Listing

For remote deployment, DPX must be able to perform a listing of all the machines in the domain. Essentially, you must be able to see all the machines you want to deploy in Network Neighborhood. The ability to generate such a listing may be disabled on your system, since obtaining a complete listing of IP/hostnames could be a security risk. If the listing can not be generated on your system, you can not use remote deployment; you will need to install locally, on each machine.

DPX uses the nslookup command to generate the listing, which should display all the servers in your Enterprise. DPX goes one-by-one through the list and asks if you want to deploy the node in the remote deployment process.

As a test that the required listing can be generated on your system, run nslookup from a command prompt and then enter an ls command for your domain, for example:

nslookup ls abc.mycorp.com

The following shows sample output from a successful test run:

C:\>nslookup Default Server:abc.mycorporation.com Address:198.51.100.24

> ls abc.mycorp.com [abc.mycorp.com] abc.mycorp.com. A 198.51.100.24 abc.mycorp.com. A 203.0.113.24 abc.mycorp.com. NS server=dc.abc.mycorp.com win2kserver A 192.0.2.24

The test confirms that DPX will be able to generate a listing to run remote deployment.