Default OS Profiles

When you copy an OS distribution, a default OS profile is automatically created for the OS distribution. The default profile is created for a typical Sun Fire V20z server, and it is mainly provided as an example. Settings for the default OS profiles are described in the following table.

Table 3–2 Default OS Profile Parameter Settings

Parameters	Solaris OS	Red Hat OS	SUSE OS
Root password	admin	admin	admin
Language	U.S. English	U.S. English	U.S. English
Time zone	Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)	Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)	Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)
Partitions	Root mount point ufs with a free file system size option on the c1t1d0s0 slice swap mount point 2048-Mbyte swap on the c1t1d0s1 slice	Root mount point ext3 with a free file system size option on the sda slice swap mount point 2048-Mbyte swap on the sda slice	Root mount point reiser with a free file system size option on the /dev/sda slice swap mount point 2048-Mbyte swap on the /dev/sda slice
Distribution group	Entire Distribution plus OEM support	Everything	Default Installation
Network Interfaces	Provisioning interface configured  Data interface not configured	Provisioning interface configured  Data interface not configured	Provisioning interface configured  Data interface not configured

If you want to use the default profile to provision servers other than V20z models, you need to modify the default profile. Instead, you could create a new OS profile or clone an existing OS profile and customize the parameter settings. Each server at your site with different hardware and provisioning requirements requires the creation of a customized OS profile.

The browser interface provides a wizard for creating new OS profiles to limit the complexity of this operation. See To Create an OS Profile for instructions.

The following is a list of best practices for modifying default OS profiles:

• To increase the speed of OS configuration, modify OS profiles to use flash archives. See Example 3–8 for examples of how to modify a default profile and To Copy a Flash Archive to the Management Server for instructions.

• To automatically configure the data network interface after OS profile installation, use the add osprofile command to add a script. See Step 4.

• Modify the default OS profile for a server other than a V20z server, remember to remove the existing partitions and add new partition information that is appropriate for the server model. See To Modify the Default Solaris OS Profile for a Sun Fire V40z or a SPARC v440 Server for instructions.