Automated Node Installation Procedure

At Lafayette we maintain several public access computing sites which are open to students 24‐hours‐a‐day. These converted classrooms are also used by faculty and staff for various workshops and provide group access to software which academic departments may select to aid their course‐work. The need to restore quickly all machines in a site to the same condition has led us to develop an automated node installation procedure. Virus infection, hardware failures and user tampering are some of the problems which the procedure helps us address on our shared machines and the procedure has also been expanded to aid in configuring student, faculty, and staff PCs as well.