Sun N1 Service Provisioning System 5.2 Installation Guide

Host Names and IP Addresses

The Sun N1 Service Provisioning System 5.2 applications require all servers to have a static IP address because the Sun N1 Service Provisioning System 5.2 application installed on a server uses the IP address to listen for network requests. The installation program prompts you to supply either a host name or an IP address. If the host name on a server does not resolve to that server's IP address, you will not be able to configure that server to connect within the Sun N1 Service Provisioning System.

If you supply a host name during the installation, the host name must resolve to the actual IP address of the server. Some servers are configured so that the host name does not resolve to the IP address or so that the host name resolves to the loopback address, 127.0.0.1. If the Sun N1 Service Provisioning System application is configured with the host name on a server with this configuration, the application might fail to start. Or, connections to this server from other Sun N1 Service Provisioning System applications also might fail.

When installing an Sun N1 Service Provisioning System application, specify the IP address of the server, not the host name. If you choose to specify the host name, ensure that the host name resolves to the actual IP address of the server.


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The installation program prompts you to choose network protocols for communication among the software applications. If you choose to use SSH to communicate between the Master Server and the CLI Clients, the installation program sets the IP address for the Master Server to 127.0.0.1