| 摘要 |
A SYSTEM, METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR HARVESTING AN IMAGE FROM A LOCAL DISK (122) OF A MANAGED ENDPOINT (112) TO AN IMAGE LIBRARY (116) IS PROVIDED. IN AH EMBODIMENT OF THE METHOD FOR HARVESTING AN IMAGE, A MANAGED ENDPOINT (116) IS PROVIDED WITH A BOOT IMAGE (126) THAT CAUSES THE ENDPOINT TO INSTANTIATE A RAM DISK (120) AND EXECUTE THE BOOT IMAGE (126) FROM THE RAM DISK (120). THE BOOT IMAGE (126) IS USED TO HARVEST AN IMAGE BY DETERMINING DATA ON A LOCAL DISK (122) OF THE MANAGED ENDPOINT (112) TO BE INCLUDED IN THE IMAGE THAT ARE NOT ALREADY STORED IN THE IMAGE LIBRARY (116). IN ONE EMBODIMENT, THIS IS DONE BY COMPARING HASHES CALCULATED ON THE DATA ON THE LOCAL DISK TO HASHES OF DATA IN THE IMAGE LIBRARY (116). THE DATA NOT ALREADY STORED IN THE IMAGE LIBRARY (116) ARE THEN COPIED TO THE IMAGE LIBRARY (116). |
