Installing the Solaris OS on the Management Server

This section provides procedures for installing and configuring the Solaris OS on your management server. The Solaris OS must be installed on the management server before you can install the N1 System Manager system software.

This section discusses the following topics:

• Solaris OS Disk Drive Considerations

• Solaris OS Installation Requirements

Solaris OS Disk Drive Considerations

The Solaris OS must be installed on an empty hard drive that contains no partitions or data. If the hard drive contains partitions, delete the partitions before installing the Solaris OS.

The following table provides the partitioning information for SPARC and x86 architecture management server, based on the minimum requirement of a 72–gigabyte hard drive.

Table 3–1 Solaris-based Management Server Partitioning

Partition	Mbytes
swap	Two to three times total system RAM, or 4 Gbytes, whichever is greater
/	All remaining space

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Note –

Allocate 3 Gbytes of free space for each distribution you plan to provision. If needed, upgrade the management server to a larger hard drive before continuing.

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Solaris OS Installation Requirements

Install the entire Solaris distribution on the management server. For a list of qualified Solaris operating systems, see Management Server Requirements.

When installing the Solaris operating system on the management server

• Ensure the partitions on all disks on the management server have been deleted before installing the Solaris operating system.

• When prompted for the Type of Install, choose Custom Install.

• When prompted to provide the Ethernet port selections, assign the IP addresses, netmask, and gateway values according to your chosen reference architecture.

• When prompted for the Software Group, choose Entire Group Plus OEM.

• When prompted for disk selection, choose all available disks.

• When prompted to lay out file systems:

  • Remove all partitions except swap and / (root).

  • Ensure that the swap partition is two to three times total system RAM or 4 Gbytes, whichever is greater.

  • Assign all remaining free space to / (root).

After you have installed Solaris 10 on your management server:

• If you have chosen to install a mail service on the management server for management of your ALOM-based manageable servers instead of using the internal N1 System Manager mail service:

  • Install package SFWimap from the Solaris OS installation Complementary CD-ROM.

  • Configure the mail service as described in Configuring the Management Server Mail Service and Account in Sun N1 System Manager 1.2 Site Preparation Guide.

  For information about which manageable servers are ALOM-based, see Table 2–5.

• If you plan to manage SPARC-based manageable servers, enable FTP as described in Enabling FTP on the Management Server. For information about which manageable servers are SPARC-based, see Table 2–5.

• If you do not plan to manage SPARC-based manageable servers, update the /etc/hosts file as described in Updating the /etc/hosts File.