Different mechanisms are used to remotely manage different hardware types. As a result, you need to know some specific information before you can effectively configure the operating system for that kind of hardware. The OS provisioning plug-in provides the following hardware groups for you to use for your OS provisioning targets:
Sun Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) Targets
Sun Advanced Light Out Management (ALOM) Targets
Sun Light Out Management (LOM) Targets
Sun Mid Range Domain Controller Targets
Hewlett-Packard Integrated Light Out Management (ILO) Targets
Other IPMI Targets
Other Remotely Managed Targets (not belonging to any of the above categories, such as B100s and B100x)
Generic target hosts with no remote management support
Each target host type has a specific set of variables that apply to that host type. For detailed information about the variables that apply to each target host type, see Appendix A, Target Host Variables.
The following table lists some of the platforms and targets that the OS provisioning plug-in supports. For each hardware platform, the table shows the following information:
The firmware or service processor versions that have been tested
The configuration that needs to be performed on these platforms
The information that needs to be gathered for the OS provisioning variables
The target host type that applies