Add OS Services

A Solaris OS server is a server that provides operating system (OS) services to support diskless or dataless clients. By using Host Manager, you can add support for an OS server or convert a standalone system to an OS server.

For each platform group and Solaris release that you want to support, you must add the particular OS service to the OS server. For example, if you want to support SPARC Sun4m systems running Solaris 2.4, you must add Sun4m/Solaris 2.4 OS services to the OS server. You would also still need to add OS services to support SPARC Sun4c systems or x86 systems running Solaris 2.4, because they are different platform groups.

You must have access to the appropriate Solaris CD image to add OS services.

Although Host Manager enables you to add support for diskless and dataless clients running the Sun4.x release, you cannot add SunOS 4.x OS services using Host Manager. You must use the install4x command to add OS services to an OS server and then use Host Manager to add support for the SunOS 4.x client.

Adding OS Services to a Server When the OS Services Have Been Patched

When adding OS services to an OS server, you may see error messages saying that you have inconsistent versions of the OS running on the server and the OS that you are trying to add. This message occurs when the installed version of the OS has packages that were previously patched and the OS services being added do not have those packages patched (because the patches have been integrated into the packages).

For example, you may have a server that is running Solaris 2.5.1; you may also have additional OS services loaded on this server, including the Solaris 2.5 sparc sun4m OS services that have been patched. If you try to add the Solaris 2.5 sparc sun4c OS services from a CD-ROM to a client of this server, you could get the following error message: To work around this problem, you will need to remove the patches related to the package that the error message listed. You can then try adding the OS services again. You may have to do this workaround for additional patches before the OS is successfully installed.

Error: inconsistent revision, installed package appears to
have been patched resulting in it being different than the
package on your media. You will need to backout all patches
that patch this package before retrying the add OS service
option.