| Network Boot Tools (NBT)
Enabling Centralized Management
Administrators can now deploy a comprehensive array of management tasks or repairs from a central management station. Everything you need (server, administrator, and client components) to implement network booting in a Windows environment. Just add the appropriate 3rd party tools (such as disk imaging) to centralize your management tasks.
Network Boot Tools can be used to:
- Install and configure new servers or workstations
- Remotely diagnose and repair system failures
- Reconfigure multiple systems
- Back up and restore hard drives
- Scan for viruses
IT managers now have centralized control over whether remote computers receive any or all of their boot-up instructions from the network. After network boot completes, the computers local hard drive commences with the normal boot operation.
From workstations to servers to networked appliances, Network Boot Tools has your network booting needs covered. Network Boot Tools is a comprehensive remote booting solution for virtually any operating system, including Windows, DOS, UNIX, LINUX, and NetWare environments.
Key Benefits
Increased Enterprise Productivity:
Facilitates central control and repair of network clients, reducing administrator “travel time ” to individual PCs and ensuring system availability for end users.
Lowered Total Cost of Ownership:
The overall effect of saving administrators time, keeping end users productive, and protecting your data is lower IT ownership costs.
Guaranteed Compatibility:
emBoot Network Boot Tools is compatible with today’s most widely used operating systems and client management utilities — for a universal network solution.
Features
- Complete package of services and administrator applications required to setup a network booting environment, such as: PXE, BOOTP, and TFTP services, Boot Image Editor, Client boot parameter database editor (BOOTPTAB Editor), DOS-based pre-OS utilities, etc.
- Compliance with industry standards including Wired for Management (WfM) 2.0, PXE, DHCP, BOOTP, TFTP and NCP/IPX
- Fully compatible with client-based network boot firmware: 3Com Managed PC Boot Agent, Intel Boot Agent, emBoot Managed PC Boot Agent, PXE boot ROMs, & Lanworks BootWare.
- PXE, BOOTP, and TFTP applications can run as executables on Windows 9x, NT, 2000, XP and 2003
- PXE, BOOTP, and TFTP services run as native Windows NT, 2000, XP and 2003 system services
- Simple, user friendly application interface includes detailed on-line help
New in version 1.2
- Works across different subnets
- High-performance multi-threaded TFTP Service
- Streamlined installation
System Requirements
Server:
- Windows NT Version 3.51 (Service Pack 5 or higher)
- Windows NT Version 4.0 (Service Pack 3 or higher)
- Windows XP
- Windows 2000, Windows 2003
Client:
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