(Optional) Configuring the WAN Boot Logging Server

If you want to record boot and installation logging messages on a system other than the client, you must set up a logging server. If you want to use a logging server with HTTPS during the installation, you must configure the WAN boot server as the logging server.

To configure the logging server, follow these steps.

To Configure the Logging Server

1. Copy the bootlog-cgi script to the logging server's CGI script directory.

   # cp /usr/lib/inet/wanboot/bootlog-cgi \ log-server-root/cgi-bin

   log-server-root/cgi-bin

   Specifies the cgi-bin directory in the logging server's web server directory

2. Change the permissions of the bootlog-cgi script to 755.

   # chmod 755 log-server-root/cgi-bin/bootlog-cgi

3. Set the value of the boot_logger parameter in the wanboot.conf file.

   In the wanboot.conf file, specify the URL of the bootlog-cgi script on the logging server.

   For more information about setting parameters in the wanboot.conf file, see Creating the wanboot.conf File.

   During the installation, boot and installation log messages are recorded in the /tmp directory of the logging server. The log file is named bootlog.hostname, where hostname is the host name of the client.

Example 40–10 Configuring a Logging Server for WAN Boot Installation Over HTTPS

The following example configures the WAN boot server as a logging server.

# cp /usr/lib/inet/wanboot/bootlog-cgi /opt/apache/cgi-bin/
# chmod 755 /opt/apache/cgi-bin/bootlog-cgi