Thursday 9 April 2015

ASR Multicast - Mac OS X Multicast


ASR Multicast Server

1. Need to create config file for ASR Multicast Server
    sudo defaults write ~/Desktop/asrconfig.plist "Data Rate" -int 6000000
    sudo defaults write ~/Desktop/asrconfig.plist "Multicast Address" 224.0.0.5
    
    Contact your network administrator for knowing multicast address for your network and   set appropriately in asrconfig.plist file with above command.

2. Start the server from terminal
    asr -verbose -server  ~/Desktop/asrconfig.plist -source /Volumes/Data/test.dmg

3. Then on clients where you want to restore image execute below command from terminal
    asr -verbose restore -source asr://<Multicast Server IP> -target /dev/disk0s2 -erase









Tags: Mac OS X multicast, asr multicast, mac os x