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.