Setting the Default System Locale, Keymap and Timezone

The default system locale of a machine installed through the Automated Installer can be specified in the System Configuration (SC) profile, as described in the service_bundle(4) and installadm(1M) man pages. For more information, see Providing Configuration Profiles in Installing Oracle Solaris 11.2 Systems

The following example shows a system configuration profile which sets the default system locale to German.

<!DOCTYPE service_bundle SYSTEM "/usr/share/lib/xml/dtd/service_bundle.dtd.1">
<service_bundle type="profile" name="system configuration">
...
	<service name='system/environment' version='1'>
		<instance name='init' enabled='true'>
			<property_group name='environment'>
				<propval name='LANG' value='de_DE.UTF-8'/>
			</property_group>
		</instance>
	</service>
...
</service_bundle>

Other international environment settings that were transitioned to the Service Management Facility (SMF) can be set in a similar fashion. The following example shows a part of a system configuration profile that sets the installed machine to use the UK-English keyboard layout and the GMT timezone.

<!DOCTYPE service_bundle SYSTEM "/usr/share/lib/xml/dtd/service_bundle.dtd.1">
<service_bundle type="profile" name="system configuration">
...
	<service name='system/keymap' version='1'>
		<instance name='default' enabled='true'>
			<property_group name='keymap'>
				<propval name='layout' value='UK-English'/>
			</property_group>
		</instance>
	</service>

	<service name='system/timezone' version='1'>
		<instance name='init' enabled='true'>
			<property_group name='timezone'>
				<propval name='localtime' value='GMT'/>
			</property_group>
		</instance>
	</service>
...
</service_bundle>