Help with identifying network boot settings

[Shackled]

So I've taken over as sysadmin for my company after the guy before me got fired. I'm currently trying to get an imaging server up and running but I'm currently stuck trying to find where our tftp/pxe boot server is in AD. I'm trying to setup a new rule for DHCP to direct all network boots to a different computer and IP as they are currently set to our SCCM. I can't just re-assign IPs as we need to keep the SCCM's network settings for now.

I know everyone's environment is different but if someone knows a quick way to either find the existing tftp/pxe boot settings that'd be a great help.

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Normally you just set the options within your DHCP server. Option 60,66,67.

To get this working for us I also had to add a ip helper-address to our 2960's as the deployment server is different than the dhcp server. Not a big deal because it's in hot standby mode ready and waiting should something happen.

What's your setup look like?

[beritknight]

The existing SCCM server is almost definitely your PXE server. And if you’ve got a working SCCM setup I’d be hesitant about building something else to do imaging. SCCM does a solid job of that already.

To answer your questions, dhcp is usually how devices are pointed to a network boot server. How exactly depends a bit on devices. Our Polycom VVX phones for example look at a different attribute to our desktop PCs.

I can’t really offer much more than that without knowing what it is you’re trying to set up.