Normally, each time you launch MDM Console, you must manually
mount one or more MDM Servers one at a time (even if you left them
mounted when you exited the previous MDM Console session).
However, when you exit MDM Console, MDM allows you to save the list
of currently mounted MDM Servers to an MDM Console settings file,
which then can be used to remount the servers as a group during a
subsequent MDM Console session.
NOTE ►► Just as the MDM Console settings file maintains a list of
currently mounted MDM Servers that you can use to remount them as
a group during subsequent MDM Console sessions, each MDM Server
maintains a list of currently mounted MDM repositories that persists
even after the MDM Server is stopped that it uses to automatically
remount them as a group each time the MDM Server is restarted.
During a subsequent MDM Console session, you can either load the list
from the file using the File > Open command from the main menu, or
you can load the list automatically by appending the full pathname of a
specific .mcs file to the command line that launches MDM Console.
NOTE ►► You can save different sets of mounted MDM Servers in
different .mcs files, which allows you to define and choose the specific
sets of MDM Servers that you want to mount as a group.
To load a specific MDM Console Settings file from within MDM
Console:
1. Choose File > Open from the main menu
2. MDM prompts you to save the current mounted settings. Click:
Yes
No
Cancel
– save the settings and exit
– exit without saving
– return to the MDM Console session
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3. MDM opens the Windows file Open dialog. Navigate to the desired
folder, select the .mcs settings file you want to load, and click Open.
4. MDM replaces the set of mounted MDM Servers with the group of
servers listed in the file.
To automatically load an MDM Console Settings file at MDM
Console startup:
1. If a Desktop shortcut to MDM Console does not already exist, create
one.
2. In the Shortcut properties of MDM Console Desktop shortcut, add the
following text to the Target field:
-f "full-pathname-of-settings-file.mcs"
3. where full-pathname-of-settings-file is the full pathname of the .mcs file
you want to use when launching MDM Console.
4. When you start MDM Console from the Desktop shortcut, MDM
automatically mounts the MDM Server(s) that were saved in the
specified .mcs file.
To automatically save an MDM Console Settings file when exiting
MDM Console:
1. If a Desktop shortcut to MDM Console does not already exist, create
one.
2. In the Shortcut properties of MDM Console Desktop shortcut, add the
following text to the Target field:
- q
3. When you exit MDM Console, MDM automatically saves the list of
currently mounted MDM Servers to the .mcs file.
TIP ►► You can save the list of currently mounted MDM Servers to
the current .mcs file at any time by choosing File > Save from the main
menu. You can also use the File > Save As command to save the list to
an .mcs file that you name yourself.
NOTE ►► If you unmount all MDM Servers from MDM Console, you
will not be prompted to save changes when exiting MDM Console nor
will the .mcs file be saved automatically.
