Default OS Profiles (Sun N1 System Manager 1.3 Operating System Provisioning Guide)

Sun N1 System Manager 1.3 Operating System Provisioning Guide

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 2–1 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 `ext3` 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

Best Practices for Modifying Default OS Profiles

To provision servers other than Sun Fire V20z servers, you need to modify the default profile, 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.

Some best practices for modifying default OS profiles are:

To increase the speed of OS configuration, modify OS profiles to use flash archives. See Example 2–9 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 in To Provision the Solaris 10 OS.
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.