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Sun N1 Service Provisioning System User's Guide for OS Provisioning Plug-In 3.1

RedHat Linux Server Administration Tasks

ProcedureHow to Import N1 SPS RA Installers

To enable a cross-platform installation (for example, to install x86 platforms from a SPARC system), you need to import the architecture-specific installer to the Linux Image server.

Steps

  1. In the Common Tasks section of the provisioning software page, select OS Provisioning.

  2. On the OS Provisioning Common Tasks page, click Manage in the Linux Image Servers section.

  3. On the Component Details page, click the Run action next to the import_product_media procedure.

  4. Choose the Linux Image server host on which to import the installer, and click Run Selected Installations.

  5. On the Plans Run page, set the plan variables as follows:

    Variable 

    Description 

    Sample Value 

    JET Module Name 

    Name of JET module 

    spsra

    Product Version 

    Version of N1 SPS installer 

    5.2

    Architecture 

    Architecture that applies to RA installer 

    x86

    Media Path 

    Path to directory that contains the RA installer 

    /net/myothersys/export/ra

  6. Click Run Plan (includes preflight).

    Note –

    To install from imported RA installers, the RedHat Linux Profile used when installing the RA must have the value for “Install RA from snapshot (y,n)” set to n. See Component Variables for RedHat Remote Agents.