Summary of DEEP FREEZE MAC
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3 deepfreezemacsecuritynotice apple provides an application called open firmware password that can be used to ensure that all keys that affect the normal start up of the computer are disabled. This prevents users from pressing the keys necessary to boot into single-user mode or boot from an alternat...
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5 contents deep freeze mac overview ...............................................................................................................................7 about deep freeze ........................................................................................................................
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7 deepfreezemacoverview aboutdeepfreeze deep freeze mac provides a completely non-restrictive working environment where there is no need to be concerned about system damage or corruption; a simple restart eradicates all changes and ensures that the standard system configuration is available at all t...
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8 installingdeepfreeze installation and configuration of deep freeze mac requires administrative access. Deep freeze mac is downloadable via the internet. Installingusingacustomizeddeepfreezeinstaller a customized deep freeze installer pre-configured with up to four usernames/passwords and environme...
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9 usingthedeepfreezecontroller if all drives and partitions are frozen on a computer, a user can create, save, change, and delete files. However, all changes are temporary, unless a thawspace or thawed partition is being utilized. The complete contents of a frozen drive or volume are restored at res...
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10 3. Enter a user name and password, and verify the password. Note: if apple remote desktop (ard) is going to be used to manage deep freeze mac deployments, ensure that only alpha-numeric characters are used in the password, or the remote tasks will fail. 4. Click ok to finish creating the first us...
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11 bootcontroltab the boot control tab is used to change the status of deep freeze on a computer. Use the three radio buttons provided to change the state of deep freeze: • to set the computer to a frozen state, choose boot frozen. • to set the computer to a thawed state for a specified number of re...
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12 drivestab when the drives tab is selected, deep freeze searches the computer and lists the drives present on a computer. The drives listed can be put into a frozen state or a thawed state. All drives on the computer are initially frozen by default, unless otherwise specified in the deep freeze as...
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13 thawspacetab the thawspace tab is used to create virtual thawed partitions where documents and changes are retained persistently on frozen computers. Administrators can create a user thawspace for each user, or a global thawspace that all users can share. The thawspace tab displays only the users...
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14 2. In the dialog that appears, select global thawspace from the list of user names. 3. In the size field, enter the size of the thawspace and use the drop down menu to choose if it is sized in mb or gb. The default size of the global thawspace is 1 gb. 4. Click add, or click cancel to return to t...
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15 resizingathawspace once a thawspace is created, it can be resized by either increasing or decreasing the size of the thawspace. Complete the following steps to resize one or more thawspaces. 1. Click thawspace. Select one or more thawspaces and click resize. 2. The following dialog is displayed: ...
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16 limitationsofresizingathawspace the minimum thawspace size is the actual data space being used or 1 mb (whichever is higher) and the maximum thawspace size is the actual partition size or 120 gb (whichever is lower). Increasing the size of a thawspace does not have any limitations. However, reduc...
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17 configuringandeditingmaintenanceschedules to configure a schedule, click the name of the schedule to be configured. Then choose from the following options to configure the maintenance schedule: • to turn the maintenance period on, click the activate maintenance schedule option. • from the day dro...
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18 mappingtab the mapping tab is used to map the user’s home folder to a specific thawspace or partition, or to map elements of a user’s home folder to a specific thawspace or partition. This feature is only available at the administrator level. The current logged in user can not be mapped. To map a...
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19 dfuserstab the df users tab allows administrators to manage the deep freeze users present on a computer. There are a maximum of four users permitted on each computer, but only the first user (the admin user) can create, edit, and delete other df users. Adding,deleting,andeditingdfusers to add a n...
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20 uninstalltab a computer must be in a thawed state for the uninstall option to be available. If the computer is in a frozen state, the uninstall option is not available. If there are existing thawspaces on a computer, choose either to retain or delete them by selecting the preferred button. If the...
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21 usingdeepfreeze after deep freeze has been installed and a configuration has been assigned to a partition, the computer can be operated as usual. The only visual evidence that deep freeze is installed on a computer are the presence of a deep freeze icon in the menu bar (if configured), the deep f...
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22 appendixi:deepfreezeassistantandcustomizingtheinstaller the deep freeze assistant can be used to create customized deep freeze installation packages and allows you to create global settings for a multiple workstation environment. The deep freeze assistant can also directly install deep freeze spe...
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23 3. Select the checkbox marked yes, install tasks to install the deep freeze specific tasks into ard on the current computer. If ard or the ard agent is running, a dialog appears giving the option to quit ard immediately or at a later time. Old deep freeze ard tasks should be deleted before instal...
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24 5. Enter the name and password of the deep freeze administrator to be created by the custom installer and used by deep freeze’s apple remote desktop tasks. Retype the password to verify it and click continue. Note: if apple remote desktop (ard) is going to be used to manage deep freeze mac deploy...
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25 the workstation will now write frozen or thawed to the selected information field during boot time. To view this status information in apple remote desktop, select edit > view options and select the matching computer info field (1–4). Workstations will now show their current status, and groups of...
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26 9. The user mapping tab is used to map types of a user’s home folder to a specific thawspace. Use the drop-down menus to map standard, admin, or mobile user’s home folder to either a partition or a user thawspace. Mapping is done on a per user basis. It is possible to have some users mapped while...
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27 10. To create multiple individually named maintenance schedules, click add. The default schedule 1 tag appears in the list on the left side of the tab. Each additional schedule added has that default tag, but can be renamed. To rename a schedule, double-click the tag to be renamed and edit the fi...
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28 11. Click choose and browse to the location of the deep freeze installer package (.Pkg extension) that exists in the deep freeze folder. Alternatively, drag and drop the package file into the choose dialog screen. Click continue. The where to save screen appears. 12. Click choose. A standard save...
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29 appendixii:appleremotedesktopv.3.0integration deep freeze assistant can install tasks for use with apple remote desktop. These tasks can be used as supplied or as a starting point for controlling deep freeze with ard. In ard 2.2, the deep freeze- specific tasks are saved in the saved tasks folder...
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30 bootthawedfor times sets target computer(s) to restart in a thawed state for the next x restarts; this number can be customized in the times argument. Checkforupdates checks whether the present version of deep freeze on the target computer(s) is the most current. Createthawspace creates virtual p...
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32 addingtargetedcomputerstothetasklist in order to run a task, there must be computers targeted to run the task. To add one or more computers to be targeted to run the task, complete the following steps: 1. In the left column, double-click the task to be targeted to the specified computers. The tas...
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33 • the target computer(s) for the task must be specified. • the target computer(s) must have deep freeze installed. • a user on the target computer must be specified to run the command. The following figure shows the sample output from the status function. Note: the display all output checkbox mus...
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34 terminal while connected to a remote workstation via ssh. A sample script using the bootfrozen command is shown below: dfxpswd=”password” /library/application\ support/faronics/deep\ freeze/ deepfreeze -u “admin” -p bootfrozen in this example, administrator is the name of a valid deep freeze mac ...
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35 mapallusers maps all users to a specified thawspace: name of user type and location of thawspace must be included as a parameter; e.G. “admin” “panther” maps all admin users to the partition named panther.** rebootinsteadoflogoff restarts target computer(s) instead of logging off removethawspace ...