N1 Grid Service Provisioning System User's Guide and Release Notes for the OS Provisioning Plug-In 1.0

Target Host Types by Platform

The following table lists some of the platforms and targets that the OS provisioning plug-in supports. For each hardware platform, the table shows the following information:

Table 8–1 Target Hosts by Platform

Target Platform  

Firmware or Service Processor  

Configuration Requirements  

Information Needed for OS Provisioning Target Variables 

Target Host Type 

SunFire v240, v210 family 

Sun Advanced Lights Out Manager 1.3 (ALOM)  

  • Provide IP (static) to ALOM port (routable from OS provisioning server)

  • Enable telnet

  • ALOM ip, user/password

  • MAC address of the target provisioning interface

Sun ALOM target  

SunFire v120 family  

Sun Lights Out Manager version: v3.12 (LOM)  

  • Connect LOM port to terminal server (Terminal server IP should be routable from OS provisioning server)

  • To share Serial A/LOM between the LOM and the Console, setup console connections to both the Serial A/LOM and the Serial B port

    For example, from the Solaris command line:


    eeprom input-device=ttya
           eeprom output-device=ttya
           reboot
  • LOM user/password (if any)

  • MAC address of the target provisioning interface

  • Terminal server information (type, ip, port connected to Target LOM port)

Sun LOM target  

SunFire v20z, v40z family  

Sun IPMI v1.5 Service Processor, Version V2.1.0.10  

  • Provide IP (static) to Network Management port (routable from OS provisioning server)

  • Enable ssh

  • Enable ipmi, ipmi channel “lan”

  • Configure BIOS to boot from PXE-enabled NICs first

  • Service Processor IP

  • ssh user/password

  • ipmi password

  • MAC address of the target provisioning interface

  • GUID of the provisioning interface

Sun IPMI target  

SunFire B100s (sparc), B100x (x86) family  

Sun Advanced Lights Out Manager for Blade Servers 1.2 (ALOM-B 1.2) 

  • Provide IP (static) to ALOM port (routable from OS provisioning server) or connect ALOM serial port to terminal server (Terminal server IP should be routable from OS provisioning server)

  • Enable Telnet (for IP-based managment)

  • ALOM IP, or terminal server information (ip, type, port connected to ALOM serial port)

  • ALOM user/password

  • MAC address of target provisioning interface

  • GUID of the provisioning interface (for B100x only)

Other Remotely Managed Target using b1600sc.jar as the Network Management HAL jar power, boot and console services are all supported by this HAL

SunFire v60x, v65x family  

IPMI-enabled Baseboard Management Controller (BMC)  

  • Provide IP (static) to LOM/IPMI port (routable from OS provisioning server) or enable ipmi, ipmi channel “lan”

  • Configure BIOS to boot from PXE-enabled NICs first

  • LOM/IPMI IP ipmi password

  • MAC address of the target provisioning interface

  • GUID of the provisioning interface

Other IPMI target using ipmi.jar as the Network Management HAL jar only power, service is supported by this HAL

SunFire 3800, 4800 or 6800 domain  

System Controller: 

ScApp version: 5.18.1 

Build_01 RTOS version: 41  

  • Provide IP (static) to System Controller (routable from OS provisioning server)

  • Enable telnet

  • Platform SC password

  • Domain SC password

  • MAC address of the target provisioning interface

Sun Mid Range Target  

HP Proliant DL Series (supporting iLO-based managment) 

iLO Integrated Lights Out Manager v 1.6.41  

  • Provide IP (static) to iLO port (routable from OS provisioning server)

  • Configure BIOS to boot from PXE-enabled NICs first

  • iLO ip, user/password

  • MAC address of the target provisioning interface

  • GUID of the provisioning interface

HP iLO Target 

Other Targets 

-  

Configure BIOS to boot from PXE-enabled NICs first (x86 only)  

  • MAC address of the target provisioning interface

  • GUID of the provisioning interface (x86 only)

Generic Target (manual control)