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A few questions regarding Snap Deploy 3

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Dear Acronis Team,

we are interested in Acronis Snap deploy, to test if it fits our needs I installed the latest trial version. I have a few questions where I could not find any answers in the manual, I hope you could take the time and answer them:

1) When I let a few clients register with the Management Console, they appear in the list with their MAC address. Is there any way to bind the MAC address to a comment and also let it show in the list ? Could I maybe specify a .txt file with MAC address and our internal hardware label number, like:

00:03:1D:03:CE:91 ; Client237

I need to be able to recognize clients in the Management Console, because I will have to put different Images onto different clients and the only solution I see right now is to have a list where I have to manually search every client and compare MAC adresses...

2) Our clients will receive the same hostname as their internal hardware label number, as I see it, I can only give hostnames before the deployment using wildcards (like counting up). Once again, an option where the hostname would be taken out of a list with the MAC addresses / comment, would be great. Is there a solution for something like this that I missed ?

3) The clients are built into racks, the IP addresses need to be counting up from the left client to the client on the right side. The problem I see here: There is an option to automatically give IP-addresses during the deployment, but I cannot chose the order of the clients in the list. So the IP addresses would be deployed quite random in my rack of clients. Do you see any solution for this ?

Thank you very much for your time.

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Hello Christoph,

Thank you very much for your interesting questions. I will be glad to answer them.

Right now it will not be possible to perform what you are asking about in your 3 questions. I would like to thank you for your time and I will create enhancement requests and forward them to our Development team so that such useful features can be implemented in a future release of our software.

If you need additional assistance, please let me know.

Thank you.

Hi Anton,

thank you very much for your response. As soon as these changes are implemented it is very likely we will purchase Acronis Snap Deploy licenses. I will check your release notes regularly, or if you remember you could also please alert me via PM.

Thank you very much,

Christoph