How to Create an Other Remotely-Managed Target Host (Browser Interface)

Steps

1. In the Common Tasks section of the N1 SPS browser interface, select OS Provisioning.

2. On the OS Provisioning Common Tasks page, click Create in the Other Remotely-Managed Targets sub-section of the Target Hosts section.

3. On the Plans Details page, click Run.

4. Choose variables to use for this plan.

   • To use an existing variables set, select a name from the drop-down menu in the Other component row of the Plan Parameters table.

   • To create a new variables set, click Select from List in the Other component row of the Plan Parameters table.

     1. Click Create Set.

     2. Type a name for the variables set.

     3. Verify variables and change them, if needed.

        The prompts in the component variables table are mostly self-explanatory. However, if you need more information, see the detailed list of variables, along with default values and examples in Other Remotely-Managed Target Host Variables.

     4. Decide whether to provide passwords in the variables set or in the plan prompts.

        There are two methods for providing the passwords:

        • Type appropriate encrypted values in the following variables:

          • netmgmt_password_1
          • terminal_server_access_password_1
          • netmgmt_password_2
          • terminal_server_access_password_2

          For information about encrypting the passwords, see Password Encryption.

        • Leave the component variables blank and enter the password in the plan prompts provided in the plan run page.

     5. Save the variables set.

     6. Select the variables set that you just saved from the drop-down menu in the Other component row of the Plan Parameters table.

5. From the Plan Details Run page, select the provisioning server on which to define the target host.

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   Tip –

   The host name of the OS provisioning server ends in -osp.

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6. To encrypt the password from the plan, follow these steps on the Plan Details Run page.

   1. Click the checkbox next to the first “If you are specifying the password below.”

   2. Type the password to access the first network management interface in the Password to Access Management Interface 1 field.

      The password encrypts as you type.

   3. Click the checkbox next to the first “If you are specifying the terminal server password below.”

   4. Type the password to access the first terminal server in the Password to Access Terminal Server Password 1 field.

      The password encrypts as you type.

   5. Click the checkbox next to the second “If you are specifying the password below.”

   6. Type the password to access the second network management interface in the Password to Access Management Interface 2 field.

      The password encrypts as you type.

   7. Click the checkbox next to the second “If you are specifying the terminal server password below.”

   8. Type the password to access the second terminal server in the Password to Access Terminal Server Password 2 field.

      The password encrypts as you type.

7. Click Run Plan (includes preflight).

8. To verify that the target host is created successfully, click the Hosts link in the left side of the N1 SPS browser interface.

   You should see the name of the virtual host appended with -target. For example, if you defined a provisioning target for host sunfire-v60x, the virtual host is sunfire-v60x-target.