Sun N1 Service Provisioning System User's Guide for SAP Plug-In 1.0

Sharing and Managing Network File Systems

This section describes the following tasks:

Note –

The SAP AC environment is not supported.

How to Create Shared Network File Systems

This task creates the network file system (NFS) share component.

Note –

This task is a markOnly task.

Steps

In the Common Tasks section of the N1 SPS browser interface, click SAP.

In the Network File System (NFS) Share section of the SAP Tasks page, click Create.

Click Run.

In the Plan Parameters table, select the variable settings for the NFSShare component.
- If the variable settings have been created for this component, select the appropriate settings from the drop-down menu.
- If the variable settings are not available from the drop-down menu,
  1. click Select From List.
    
    The Select Variable Settings From List window displays.
    - To create a new variable settings set, click Create Set and type a Set Name.
      
      The following list provides commonly updated variables for the NFSShare component. To create a value for the component variable, click the check box in the component variable's row.
      
      Note –
      For information about component variables ending in UserExit, see User Exits.
      
      groupName
      
      This is a required field.
      
      Note –
      In the Sun Cluster environment, the groupName must equal the Sun Cluster resource group name.
      
      groupDescription
      
      A description of the group.
      
      resourceName
      
      Required for the Sun Cluster environment. The resourceName must equal the Sun Cluster resource name for the Sun Cluster envType.
      
      envType
      
      Identifies into which environments this component will be deployed. Either default or Sun Cluster. Value can be : default or sc.
      
      createdBy
      
      Identifies the installer of the component.
      
      targetRefName
      
      Virtual host name. Derived from other variables.
  2. Click Save.
- To use component variables from another component, click Import Set.
  
  For more information about importing variable sets, see How to Run a Plan in Sun N1 Service Provisioning System 5.2 Operation and Provisioning Guide.

Select a target host or target host set.

Provide the plan variables.

Absolute path of NFS shares

Required for the default environment. A comma-delimited list.

NFS share options

Required for the default environment. Default value: rw.

Click the Run Plan (Includes Preflight) button.

The Deployment Results page is displayed. If the plan fails, error messages are displayed.

How to Delete Shared Network File Systems

This task describes how to delete a Network File System (NFS) share component.

Note –

This task is a markOnly task.

Steps

In the Common Tasks section of the N1 SPS browser interface, click SAP.

In the Network File System (NFS) Share section of the SAP Tasks page, click Delete.

Click Run.

Select a target host or target host set.

Provide the plan variable.

Install path of the NFS share component

This is a required field. If you do not know the install path, return to the SAP Tasks page and click the View All link.

Click the Run Plan (Includes Preflight) button.

The Deployment Results page is displayed. If the plan fails, error messages are displayed.

How to Share Network File Systems

The NFS targetable component contains information about the file systems being shared via NFS. Because the file systems being shared are stored as a virtual host variable, you can add file systems to be shared after the component has been installed.

The virtual host name will be set to the same value as installPath of the NFS component.

This task calls the system service startNfs which does the following:

In the default environment, share the file systems by using the UNIX share command.
In the Sun Cluster environment, call the Sun Cluster scswitch -ej command to start the NFS.
In the SAP AC environment, it is not applicable.

Steps

In the Common Tasks section of the N1 SPS browser interface, click SAP.

In the Network File System (NFS) Share section of the SAP Tasks page, click Share.

Click Run.

Select a target host or target host set.

Provide the plan variable.

Install path of the NFS share component

This is a required field. If you do not know the install path, return to the SAP Tasks page and click the View All link.

Click the Run Plan (Includes Preflight) button.

The Deployment Results page is displayed. If the plan fails, error messages are displayed.

How to Unshare Network File Systems

This task calls the system service stopNfs, which does the following:

In the default environment, calls the unshare command to stop the NFS resource.
In the Sun Cluster environment, calls the Sun Cluster scswitch -nj command to stop the NFS resource.
In the SAP AC environment, this is not applicable.

Steps

In the Common Tasks section of the N1 SPS browser interface, click SAP.

In the Network File System (NFS) Share section of the SAP Tasks page, click Unshare.

Click Run.

Select a target host or target host set.

Provide the plan variable.

Install path of the NFS share component

This is a required field. If you do not know the install path, return to the SAP Tasks page and click the View All link.

Click the Run Plan (Includes Preflight) button.

The Deployment Results page is displayed. If the plan fails, error messages are displayed.

How to View All Network File Systems

This task displays all the hosts on which the Network File Systems component is installed.

Steps

In the Common Tasks section of the N1 SPS browser interface, click SAP.

In the Network File System (NFS) Share section of the SAP Tasks page, click View All.

The Hosts Where Installed table is displayed.

How to Check the Shared Status of Network File Systems

This task determines whether the file system is shared.

Steps

In the Common Tasks section of the N1 SPS browser interface, click SAP.

In the Network File System (NFS) Share section of the SAP Tasks page, click Share Status.

Click Run.

Select a target host or target host set.

Provide the plan variable.

Install path of the NFS share component

This is a required field. If you do not know the install path, return to the SAP Tasks page and click the View All link.

Click the Run Plan (Includes Preflight) button.

The Deployment Results page is displayed. If the plan fails, error messages are displayed.

How to Check the Unshared Status of Network File Systems

This task identifies the file systems that are not shared.

Steps

In the Common Tasks section of the N1 SPS browser interface, click SAP.

In the Network File System (NFS) Share section of the SAP Tasks page, click Unshare Status.

Click Run.

Select a target host or target host set.

Provide the plan variable.

Install path of the NFS share component

This is a required field. If you do not know the install path, return to the SAP Tasks page and click the View All link.

Click the Run Plan (Includes Preflight) button.

The Deployment Results page is displayed. If the plan fails, error messages are displayed.