To Create an OS Profile (Sun N1 System Manager 1.3 Operating System Provisioning Guide)

Sun N1 System Manager 1.3 Operating System Provisioning Guide

To Create an OS Profile

This procedure describes how to use the browser interface's OS Profile wizard. The examples that follow the procedure provide command-line equivalents for creating and customizing OS profiles for the Solaris, Red Hat, and SUSE platforms.

Before You Begin

You must copy an OS distribution before you can create an OS profile. See To Copy an OS Distribution From CDs or a DVD or To Copy an OS Distribution From ISO Files.

Steps

Log in to the N1 System Manager.

See To Access the N1 System Manager Command Line in Sun N1 System Manager 1.3 Discovery and Administration Guide for details.

Click the System Dashboard tab.

The Task Shortcuts pane appears on the right side of the page.

Click the New button under the OS Profiles list.

The Create New Operating System Profile wizard appears.

Use the wizard steps to guide you through the screens.

Click the Help tab in the left pane of the wizard for detailed information about the entry fields.

To complete the creation of the OS profile, click the Finish button in the wizard.

The wizard window closes.

To add the profile to the list of profiles shown in the OS Profile Task Shortcuts pane, click the subordinate Edit List button.

A dialog box appears.
1. Select the check box for the OS profile and click the OK button.
  
  The drag-and-drop icon appears in the OS profiles Task Shortcuts list.

Example 2–6 Creating a Solaris OS Profile Through the Command Line

The following example illustrates the commands that are used to create an OS profile for a Solaris OS distribution. The first command creates a Solaris 10 profile that is named S10profile and sets the root password to admin.

N1-ok> create osprofile S10profile rootpassword admin 
description "S10 for host123" os solaris10

The following example command shows how to configure a swap partition with a size of 2048 Mbytes.

N1-ok> add osprofile s10profile partition swap size 2048 device c1t1d0s1 
type swap

The following example command shows how to configure a free ufs partition.

N1-ok> add osprofile s10profile partition / sizeoption free device c1t1ds0 
type ufs

The following example command shows how to add the default Solaris distribution group.

N1-ok> add osprofile s10profile distributiongroup "Entire Distribution 
plus OEM support"

OS profiles that install only the Core System Support distribution group cannot be monitored by using the OS monitoring feature.

Example 2–7 Creating a Red Hat OS Profile Through the Command Line

The following example illustrates the commands that are used to create an OS profile for a Red Hat distribution.

N1-ok> create osprofile RH30profile rootpassword admin 
os RedHat30

The following example command shows how to configure a root partition.

N1-ok> add osprofile RH30profile partition / device sda type ext3 
sizeoption free

The following example command shows how to configure a swap partition.

N1-ok> add osprofile RH30profile partition swap device sda type swap 
size 2048 sizeoption fixed

The following example command shows how to specify the distribution group.

N1-ok> add osprofile RH30profile distributiongroup "Everything"

Example 2–8 Creating a SUSE OS Profile Through the Command Line

The following example illustrates the commands that are used to create an OS profile for a SUSE distribution.

N1-ok> create osprofile default os suse rootpassword admin

The following example command shows how to configure a root partition.

N1-ok> add osprofile default partition / device /dev/sda type ext3 
sizeoption free

The following example command shows how to configure a swap partition.

N1-ok> add osprofile default partition swap device /dev/sda type swap 
size 2048 sizeoption fixed

The following example command shows how to specify the distribution group.

N1-ok> add osprofile default distributiongroup "Default Installation"