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  I think this may be a feature request unless there’s a way to do the following:

  I have several VMs in a Group called Virtual Machines. Each VM is associated with its own image. I see that the Group only has an image deploy function and only one image can be associated with a Group. Can there be a different type of Group to say “The hosts in this Group are part of a task group” for instance. My goal is to be able to click one button to send a capture task to all hosts in a group to capture to their respective images. I tried using the cron style scheduler but it didn’t work at all. All of my VMs are running 24/7 to receive windows updates and stay current, and I’d like to update the images once a week.

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  If you use a pfSense router as your primary dhcp server you can configure it to provide dynamic PXE booting information to your target computers that you wish to image.

  To configure PXE (Network) Booting with pfSense please do the following.

  Edit your DHCP Server configuration for the subnet where you require pxe booting. At the top of the DHCP Server conifugration page for the network interface (LAN in this example). Make sure that you have the DHCP server enabled and Ignore Bootp queries disabled.
  ignore_bootp.png Scroll down the page until you see the Network Booting section and press the Display Advanced button.
  do_netbooting.png Tick the checkbox for Enable network booting and then enter the IP address of the FOG server (netboot server) in the Next Server field. Complete the form as below
  boot_settings.png Make sure you don’t have any value populated for the TFTP server field
  no_tftp.png As well as under the Additional Bootp/DHCP options section. Make sure you are not populating dhcp options 60, 66, or 67.
  no_advanced_dhcp.png Save the configuration and then restart the dhcp server.
  9, Be aware that you might need to enable some additional firewall rules if you have the LAN inteface locked down. Net/PXE booting requires access to the TFTP server on udp port 69 on the FOG server.

  Note: If you are running pfSense as a VM, you may need to configure promiscuous mode on the network interface for your hypervisor. You would only need this option if your external target computer’s can’t pick up an IP address from pfSense. This promiscuous mode is a requirement of dhcp and not network booting.