Joe,
Thanks for taking a look. Comments about CEM/https were in relation to the Windows built-in firewall, which was blocking both PXE and NetBoot processes/communications on my site server. Once I disabled the firewall, I was good to go, but don't want that risk hanging around forever either. As I get further along in validation I plan on moving to CEM and, in general, want SSL communication on the local clients too. So, I want to close down the firewall again and was just wondering which ports I need to be cognizant of, for all CMS if possible, and for OSX and Windows.
I'm pretty sure I knew that Deployment (of images) was not an option over the internet, but a reminder while I am still new is always welcomed.
Your comments about DeployAnywhere confused me a bit. As I understand it, that's simply a driver store for imaging? I do plan to leverage Hardware Independant Imaging down the road, for my Windows boxes, but I don't see how that would relate to OSX? Maybe you thought I misstyped with DeployStudio? DeployStudio is a common, 3rd party, open-source, Mac NetBooting solution. It's what I have been using for a year+ to get the job done as I wasn't experienced enough in Altiris to try and get some kind of Frankenstein DS 6.9 + OSX Server amalgamation to work.
DeployStudio also creates its own NetBoot sets, for use with OSX Server. OSX Server hands out the NBI, which once loaded, gives you an SSL (if configured) connection to the DeployStudio Server for further workflows: scripting, imaging and software deployment. I was hoping to import the DeployStudio NBI's to altiris, such that I can turn off the NetInstall service on my OSX Server, have Altiris hand out the NBI's, then continue my current SOPs until such a time as I can move over workflows and decommission my OSX server. When I tried this, this morning, I encountered a mega crash. Maybe my NBI's got corrupted, or maybe I told Altiris to import the tools or something which ruined the cutom NBI...don't know, but that's on me to test and confirm. Just wondering if it was possible.