Understanding Shared Profiles and Host Properties

Shared profiles and host properties are used by the Change Manager to describe how one or more managed hosts are to be configured with a software stack. Much of the information specified by shared profiles and host properties is the same as described in a custom JumpStart installation profile.

A shared profile can be used by one or more managed hosts to describe the way managed hosts are configured with the software stack.

Host properties describe exactly one managed host. These properties describe the exact configuration of the software stack on the particular managed host. The host properties point to the shared profile. You can further customize the managed host by doing the following:

• Overriding archive parameter values in the shared profile by providing new values for the same archive parameters

• Overriding parameter values in the shared profile by providing new values for the same parameters

• Providing values not already specified in the shared profile