IT Administrators can now easily restore servers in remote, unattended environments and distributed locations from a Windows desktop, laptop or Pocket PC using the LightsOut Restore Option.   The Symantec LiveState Recovery LightsOut Restore Option eliminates the need for travel or onsite assistance to remote devices or headless servers in data centers by leveraging baseboard management controllers on standard servers (e.g., Dell Remote Access Card - DRAC or HP Integrated Lights-Out -- RiLO).

Unattended Remote Restorations
The process here is simple.   An administrator uses the LightsOut Restore Option to install the Symantec Recovery Disk in the hard drive of each server.   If a server must be recovered due to a failed installation, virus or BSOD, use your server's out of band controller (or Baseboard Management Controller) available on many servers to boot the server remotely (note that you must be able to access the boot menu so the file system needs to be intact).   The administrator then selects the on disk recovery environment and can perform a full system restore remotely using the built in pcAnywhere host for connectivity.

With this feature installed administrators can also add additional drivers directly to the Symantec Recovery Disk files located in the boot volume subdirectory.   With the ability to modify the Symantec Recovery Disk environment, this offers more flexibility for easily recovering systems with the latest hardware devices (NIC cards, storage controllers, etc.), and eliminates the need for a new recovery CD to be built.