Preconfiguring Power Management Information

The Power Management software provided by Solaris can be used to automatically save the state of a system and power it off after it is idle for 30 minutes. When you install the Solaris software on SPARC based systems of the sun4u platform group (and any other systems that are compliant with Version 2 of the EPA's Energy Star guidelines), the Power Management software is installed by default, and you are prompted after the subsequent reboot to enable or disable the Power Management software.

If you are performing interactive installations, there is no way to preconfigure the Power Management Information and avoid the prompt. However, with custom JumpStart installations, you can preconfigure the Power Management information by using a finish script to create an /autoshutdown or /noautoshutdown file on the system. When the system reboots, the /autoshutdown file enables Power Management and the /noautoshutdown file disables Power Management.

For example, the following line in a finish script enables the Power Management software and avoids the prompt after the system reboots.

touch /a/autoshutdown

For more information about finish scripts, see "Creating Finish Scripts".