Summary of Major Tasks

The following diagram provides a high-level overview of the tasks required to prepare a site for Sun N1 System Manager1.2 installation.

Figure 1–1 Site Preparation Task Flow

Summaries of each of the above tasks are provided in the following list.

• Determine system requirements

  This task involves the following actions:

  • Inventory the equipment you want to use with the Sun N1 System Manager

  • Compare the inventory to the system requirements, and if desired, purchase additional equipment

  • Determine which server you will use as the management server and which operating system you will install on the management server

  • Determine which servers you will use as provisionable servers and, based on the total, determine your switch requirements

  References:

  • Sun N1 System Manager Hardware and OS Requirements

  • Sun N1 System Manager Connection Information

  • Reference Configurations

  • Management Server Considerations

  • Switch Considerations

• Map network

  This task involves the following actions:

  • Determine the IP addressing scheme for the management, provisioning, and data networks.

  • Whether you will use a single-switch configuration in which all connections are on a single switch, or a two-switch configuration, in which the management network is isolated on one switch and the data and provisioning networks are on the second switch.

  • Determine the VLAN assignments

  References:

  • Reference Configurations

  • Site Planning

• Connect the hardware based on the information and decisions you have made in the preceding steps.

• Install and configure an operating system on the management server

  This task can be performed at the same time as provisionable server preparation.

  References:

  • Installing the Solaris OS on the Management Server

  • Installing the RedHat Enterprise Linux OS on the Management Server

  • Enabling FTP on the Management Server

  • Updating the /etc/hosts File

  • Configuring the Management Server Mail Service and Account

• Prepare the provisionable servers

  This task involves the following actions:

  • Assign IP addresses to the management port of each provisionable server

  • Set up the provisionable server management processor account credentials where applicable

  References:

  • Provisionable server hardware documentation

  • Setting Up Provisionable Servers