Sun N1 System Manager 1.2 Site Preparation Guide

Enabling FTP on the Management Server

If you plan to manage SPARC-based provisionable servers, you must enable the FTP service on the management server.

ProcedureTo Enable FTP on a Solaris Based Management Server

Steps
  1. Log in to the management server as root.

  2. Type the command svcadm -v enable network/ftp.

    The FTP service is enabled, and starts when the management server is rebooted. After the system is rebooted, you can verify whether the FTP service has start using the inetadm command:


    # inetadm
    enabled   online         svc:/network/telnet:default
    enabled   online         svc:/network/nfs/rquota:default
    disabled  disabled       svc:/network/echo:dgram
    disabled  disabled       svc:/network/time:stream
    enabled   online         svc:/network/ftp:default 
Next Steps

Update the /etc/hosts file as described in Updating the /etc/hosts File

ProcedureTo Enable FTP on a Linux Based Management Server

Steps
  1. Log in to the management server as root.

  2. Create symbolic links to the /etc/init.d/vsftpd file in the /etc/rc3.d and /etc/rc5.d directories.

    For example:


    # ln -s /etc/init.d/vsftpd /etc/rc3.d/S99vsftpd
    # ln -s /etc/init.d/vsftpd /etc/rc5.d/S99vsftpd
    

    The FTP service is enabled, and starts when the management server is rebooted. After the system is rebooted, you can verify whether the FTP service has started by using the ps and grep commands:


    # ps -eaf | grep ftp
    root    3035    1  0  16:27 ?    00:00:00 /usr/sbin/vsftpd /etc/vsftpd/vsf
Next Steps

Update the /etc/hosts file as described in the next section.