Assets typically can broadcast a message to all assets sharing the same router. Routers act as boundaries between broadcast domains. A LAN may include multiple routers, each router representing another broadcast domain.
Gold Masters
A gold master machine is a clean machine used to create a "standard" image for cloning. The gold master machine is not used for day to day use, but has all the necessary drivers and patches applied to it.
Note: Always create a backup of a gold master machine first, before trying to create an image from it. If sysprep fails when creating an image it could damage the gold master machine. If this occurs, the gold master machine can be restored from the backup.
A monitored machine with an installed agent and active machine ID / group ID account on the Kaseya Server. Each managed machine uses up one agent license.
Multicast uses the network infrastructure efficiently by having the source send packets once and simultaneously to multiple, designated receivers. The nodes in the network take care of replicating the packet to reach multiple receivers only when necessary.
The Preboot eXecution Environment (PXE) is an open industry standard for booting computers using the computer's network interface card to load an image from a network location, instead of booting from a local storage device like a hard disk or CD-ROM. The BIOS of a PXE client computer is configured to communicate with a PXE server within the same broadcast domain at bootup to obtain the instructions required to boot. Those instructions include specifying the network location of an image to boot from, as well as providing values for creating a unique machine environment.
Microsoft's System Preparation Utility, or sysprep, prepares an operating system for disk cloning and restoration via a disk image. Certain elements of an installation need to be "generalized" before creating a source image that can be deployed to multiple computers.
Note: After an image is created from a source machine, the source machine's computer name, agent name, and domain details are restored to the values they had just prior to running sysprep.