Enabling NetBoot Filtering

You can control client access to your NetBoot server by enabling the NetBoot filter. The NetBoot filter can be configured to allow or deny specific client computers based on their Ethernet address. This is useful when you have computers that should never be NetBooted, such as other servers; or computers that you always want NetBooted, such as lab computers.

To enable NetBoot filtering:

1.	Choose /Applications/Server/Server Admin (Figure 11.61). Figure 11.61. Choose /Applications/Server/Server Admin. The Server Admin utility opens.
2.	Connect and authenticate to the server you intend to configure (Figure 11.62). Figure 11.62. Authenticate as your server administrator.
3.	Select NetBoot from the service list, click the Settings button, and then click the Filters tab (Figure 11.63). Figure 11.63. Select NetBoot from the service list, click the Settings button, and then click the Filters tab.
4.	Select the "Enable NetBoot filtering" check box (Figure 11.64). Figure 11.64. Select the "Enable NetBoot filtering" check box.
5.	Choose the appropriate radio button to create the allow or deny filter list (Figure 11.65). Figure 11.65. Select the appropriate NetBoot filtering Allow or Deny radio button.
6.	Do one of the following: Click the Add button (Figure 11.66). A dialog sheet appears, allowing you to manually add a client's Ethernet address. Figure 11.66. Click the Add button to manually add a client's Ethernet address. Enter a client's host name, and then click the Spyglass button. The Server Admin utility queries the client for its Ethernet address. Click the Add button to add this address to your list (Figure 11.67). Figure 11.67. Enter a client's host name and click the Spyglass button to have the Server Admin utility query the client for its Ethernet address. Then click the Add button to add the address to your list.
7.	Click the Save button.

Tips

• Click the Delete button to remove a client from the filter list (Figure 11.68).

  Figure 11.68. Click the Delete button to remove a client from the filter list.

  

  
  

• You can view a list of all clients that have ever NetBooted for your server in the Server Admin utility by selecting NetBoot from the service list and then clicking the Clients button (Figure 11.69).

  Figure 11.69. You can view a list of NetBoot clients in the Server Admin utility by selecting NetBoot from the service list and then clicking the Clients button.