Deploying OS Profiles

OS profile installations can be customized to fit your provisioning and network needs.

To deploy default or custom OS profiles, use the load command with the server or group keyword and the osprofile subcommand.

To add the base management and OS monitoring features that support updating and patching, use the feature attribute with the osmonitor value when you issue the load command. The feature attribute of the load command enables you to automatically configure monitoring when you load the OS profile.

For syntax and parameter details, type help load server, help load group, and help add server at the N1–ok command line.

Most managed servers boot from their default network boot interface automatically as the final step of a load operation. However, you must boot manually any managed server that was discovered through the OS or manual discovery processes. The N1 System Manager is not able to boot automatically these systems from the network. See To Initiate Network Boot Manually for instructions.

The following table provides a quick reference of all the parameters that are available for the load group and load server commands.

Before you attempt any Solaris OS on x86 platform deployments by using the N1 System Manager, you must ensure that the nameserver and search values are correctly configured at the operating system level on your management server. Otherwise, the installations will fail.

For more details, see the resolv.conf(5) man page. You need root user access on your management server to modify these settings.