N1 Provisioning Server 3.1, Blades Edition, Installation Guide

Installation Worksheet

During installation, you are asked for specific information. Use the following table to record the values before you install N1 Provisioning Server.

Table 4–1 Information Required by the Installation Process

Description 

Value 

IP Address of the external DNS server to which unknown queries are forwarded. If you do not want to forward unknown queries, leave this blank. 

Example: 201.10.51.155

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Provide the 24-bit Image Copy subnet IP address netmask. The IP address is reserved for use by image copy processes only. 

Example: 192.0.0.0/24

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Provide the total number of server blades in all B1600 chassis. 

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Provide the name of the database software to use [Oracle|Postgres] 

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If you are using the Oracle database, provide the following information:

 
 

The name of the directory where Oracle is installed. 

Example: /opt/oracle/OraHome1

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The name of the Oracle database data directory. The directory must be empty or installation fails.  

Example: /oracle_data1

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The database primary logs directory name. The directory must be empty or installation fails.  

Example: /oracle_data2

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The database secondary logs directory name. The directory must be empty or installation fails.  

Example: /oracle_data3

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If you are using the Postgres database, provide the following information:

 
 

The name of the Postgres home directory. 

Example: /postgres_data

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The name of the Postgres database logs directory.  

Example: /postgres_log

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The database administrator server user name if different than the default name admin.

_______________________________

The database user name if different than the default name system.

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The Control Center database user name if it is different than the default name tcc.

_______________________________

If you enable database email notification, provide the following information:  

 
 

The name of a valid user account from which Oracle notification messages are to be sent. 

_______________________________

 

The name of a valid user account to which Oracle notification messages are to be sent. 

_______________________________

 

The name of your SMTP mail server. 

_______________________________

The fully qualified DNS domain name for the N1 Provisioning server. 

Example: n1ps.sun.com

_______________________________

Provide the range or ranges of virtual local area network (VLAN) numbers from 11 through 255 that are to be allocated to the Resource Layer VLANs for your farms.  

Example: 11–24, 25, 26–35

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Provide the IP addresses, mask length, and subnet type (internal or external) for all Resource Layer subnets. The IP addresses must be unique, and cannot be the same as the control subnet or the image subnet.  

Internal subnets are non-routable addresses that are used internally to communicate with farm devices. Example: 10.8.0.0/24/i, 192.168.16.0/24/i

External subnets are externally routable addresses. Example: 220.240.255.0/24/e, 204.16.18 /24/e

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Provide the following information for each blade system chassis and switch network: 

 
 

Blade system controller IP address. Example: 10.5.144.50

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SSC0 switch IP address. Example: 10.5.144.53

_______________________________

 

SSC1 switch address. Example: 10.5.144.54


Note –

The SSC1 switch address must be specified even if the chassis has only one SSC. The IP address is reserved for possible addition of a second SSC.


_______________________________

 

SSC default gateway IP address. Example: 10.5.144.1

_______________________________

 

Chassis netmask. Example: 255.255.255.0


Note –

All chassis have the same default gateway and netmask.


_______________________________

 

Chassis SSC user login name. 


Note –

The SSC login and password must be the same for all chassis during the initial installation or installation fails.


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