Preface

This guide provides information about provisioning concepts and Linux provisioning using Oracle Enterprise Manager. Best Practices for Bare Metal Provisioning covers provisioning of Linux operating system on bare metal servers. Out-of-box deployment procedures in Enterprise Manager can then be used to provision Oracle Database and other software on the newly provisioned Linux servers. The following use case is covered:

Provisioning Linux Operating System on Bare Metal Boxes

Audience

This document is mainly intended for the system administrators and DBAs who want to use the Provisioning application within Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g, to automate the manual tasks of provisioning and configuring hardware servers/software in their data center. This document also acts as a good starting point for anyone who wants to get familiar with provisioning concepts.

It is assumed that the reader is familiar with the features and architecture of Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g. Please go through Managing the Complete Oracle Environment with Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g for more information on this.

It is also assumed that the user is familiar with the Preferred Credentials feature of Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g.

NOTE: You can also use the Deployment Procedures feature to provision Oracle/Third Party Software on live servers (servers with operating system already installed on them). More information about the Deployment Procedures can be found here:

http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/oem/pdf/grid-automation-deployment-procedures.pdf

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Structure

One should go through the following sections irrespective of the specific provisioning use case that one may have. This guide contains the following chapters and is organized as follows:

Introduction to Bare Metal Provisioning

This chapter provides an introduction to provisioning.

Setting Up Provisioning Environment

This chapter provides details on setting up and configuring various elements required by the provisioning application

Provisioning Linux

This chapter provides steps for provisioning Linux operating system on bare metal machines.

Preface

Audience

Documentation Accessibility

Related Documents

Conventions

Structure