Performing maintenance

Spark makes it easy to maintain machines remotely or locally.

Temporarily or permanently configure your machine to boot from the network.

This may also be referred to as “PXE boot”, “iPXE boot”, or “network boot”.

Turn on your machine and Spark will appear.

Press 2 to enter the Advanced menu.

Select an action to perform on the machine.

The following options are available at this time:

Install OS - Install an operating system from an available template
Memory Test - Launch memtest86+ to test your machine’s memory
Boot Rescue Environment (Alpine) - Reboot into an Alpine Linux root shell/rescue environment
Remove from Dragonfly - Prevents a machine from being managed by Dragonfly

Future improvements to Dragonfly will allow you to trigger these actions remotely.