Using a DS-Client mass deployment template

Mass deployment enables you to use XML files to create a large number of DS-Client accounts on a DS-System, silently deploy the Windows DS-Client software, and automatically configure each DS-Client.

From the DS-System side, mass deployment helps you quickly configure multiple DS-Client accounts. Instead of manually creating many DS-Client accounts, you can create one DS-Client mass deployment template and re-use the same connection information (or .CRI file) for all DS-Client accounts you want to deploy under that customer account. For more information, see: “Exporting DS-Client registration information”.

The DS-Clients will initially connect to the DS-System to register as the template DS-Client, but will be automatically assigned a different sequential DS-Client number (with the exception of the “Requires Registration” note below).

• The template DS-Client account will not allow itself to be registered as an actual DS-Client account until you clear the Auto-registration counter option.

• If this template DS-Client account has the Requires Registration option selected (in the "DS-Client - Connection Tab"), each time a new DS-Client request is received, the DS-System will check the hardware cookie it receives with those of all existing DS-Clients under this same customer account. If a matching cookie is found (meaning an existing hardware installation is trying to re-install a DS-Client), DS-System will re-assign the existing DS-Client number corresponding to the matching cookie. (This also means that if the Requires Registration option is off, a new DS-Client number is generated every time a new DS-Client installation is requested from this template DS-Client account.)

This simplifies DS-Client creation in mass deployment scenarios: you only need to make one template, and all DS-Clients will be created with the same settings.