No PXE Boot Menu and PXE-M0F when booting client in Deployment Solution

Products

• IT Management Suite

Issue/Introduction

Clients do not properly boot to a PXE configuration when manually booting the client. The only option visible is 'Next Device'. This issue typically occurs in newly installed or upgraded environments where specific network boot configurations are missing.

Environment

• Deployment Solution 8.x
• IT Management Suite (ITMS)

Cause

NetBoot Services (NBS) General settings are not configured to respond to computers under specific scenarios, including unknown, predefined, or managed states.

Resolution

1. Open the Deployment Solution console.
2. Navigate to NBS General settings.
3. Configure the settings for SBS to respond to clients with a specific PXE configuration.
4. Verify that clients can now boot with the PXE boot menu as expected.

For detailed configuration steps, see Configuring and Filtering Computers to Boot with PXE.

Note: PXE-M0F is not an error; it means the computer booting to NIC cannot find an operating system. PXE-M0F may not be seen if 'Next Device' is automatically selected and contains a valid production OS