How to Create a Solaris Provisioning Profile (Browser Interface)

Before You Begin

Make sure the JET server exists and that the Solaris OS software is available to that server. For more information about creating the JET server, see Setting up the Solaris JET Server. For more information about creating the Solaris image, see How to Import a Solaris Image.

Steps

1. In the Common Tasks section of the N1 Grid SPS browser interface, select OS Provisioning.

2. On the OS Provisioning Common Tasks page, click Create Profile in the Solaris Images section.

3. On the Plans Details page, click Run.

4. Choose variables to use for this plan.

   • To use an existing variables set, select a name from the drop-down menu in the SolarisImage component row of the Plan Parameters table.

   • To create a new variables set, click Select from List in the SolarisImage component row of the Plan Parameters table.

     1. Click Create Set.

     2. Type a name for the variables set.

     3. Type the Solaris main version number into the version variable.

     4. Type the Solaris minor version number into the release variable.

     5. Verify the remaining variables and change them, if needed.

        The following table describes the additional variables and their default values.

        Variable Name	Description	Default Value
        architecture	Architecture of the physical system, for example, SPARC or x86	sparc
        installPath	Solaris image name to attach	Solaris:[version]_:[release]_:[architecture] For example: Solaris9_u7_sparc
        image_dir	Path to location where image file resides	/export/osp_image
        image_subnet_addr	Subnet address of the image server	:[target(/):sys.ipAddress]
        image_subnet_mask	Subnet mask of the image server	255.255.255.0

     6. Save the variables set.

     7. Select the variables set that you just saved from the drop-down menu in the SolarisImage component row of the Plan Parameters table.

5. On the Plan Details Run page, select the JET image server on which to create the profile.

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   Tip –

   The host name of the JET image server ends in -jet.

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6. If needed, change the Profile Name.

7. If needed, change the Profile Description.

8. Update the list of the JET modules to use.

   The JET product modules are located on the JET server in the directory /opt/SUNWjet/Products. For more information about creating JET modules, see Appendix C, Creating Custom JET Modules.

9. Click Run Plan (includes preflight).

10. (Optional) Change default profile values.

    1. Navigate to the Solaris folder that contains the new Provision component.

       For example, /com/sun/n1osp/autogen-biss1-jet/provision/.

    2. Click the Solaris provisioning component name.

       For example, Solaris10_0205_sparc.standard.

    3. Edit default values.

       1. Click the Edit button at bottom of Details page.

       2. Change values.

       3. Click the Check-in button at the bottom of the Details page.