How to Create a Generic 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 Generic 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 Target component row of the Plan Parameters table.

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

     1. Click Create Set.

     2. Type a name for the variables set.

     3. Determine whether to call the OSP Control Service.

        For a generic target host, pay special attention to the osp_control_service variable. If you set this variable to TRUE and the system has a manual HAL, the N1 SPS software stops and waits for you to perform the appropriate function. If you monitor the status of the installation through the status feature, the OS provisioning control service lets you know when to power off, reboot, and power on the target host.

        If the target host is on a private network and has no access to DHCP services, set this variable to FALSE.

     4. Verify other variables and change them, if needed.

        The other 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 Generic Target Host Variables.

     5. Save the variables set.

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

5. On 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. Click Run Plan (includes preflight).

7. 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.