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Sun N1 Service Provisioning System User's Guide for OS Provisioning Plug-In 3.0

Creating Solaris Provisioning Profiles With JET

The JumpStart Enterprise Toolkit (JET) is a set of utilities that simplifies the process of creating the profiles necessary to provision the Solaris OS. Through the N1 SPS browser interface, you can generate the profile keywords and values that are required to perform an automated JET installation of your target host.

If you prefer to not use JET, and create the profile values manually, you can create the Solaris Provisioning profile without using JET modules. See Creating Non-JET Solaris Provisioning Profiles.

ProcedureHow to Create a Solaris Provisioning Profile With JET (Browser Interface)

Before You Begin
Steps

  1. In the Common Tasks section of the N1 SPS browser interface, select OS Provisioning.

  2. On the OS Provisioning Common Tasks page, click Create Profile in the Solaris Images section.

  3. On the Plans Details page, click Run.

  4. Choose variables to use for this plan.

    • To use an existing variables set, select a name from the drop-down menu in the SolarisImage component row of the Plan Parameters table.

    • To create a new variables set, click Select from List in the SolarisImage component row of the Plan Parameters table.

      1. Click Create Set.

      2. Type a name for the variables set.

      3. Type the Solaris main version number into the version variable.

      4. Type the Solaris minor version number into the release variable.

      5. Verify the remaining variables and change them, if needed.

        The following table describes the additional variables and their default values.

        Variable Name 

        Description 

        Default Value/Example 

        architecture

        Architecture of the physical system, for example, SPARC or x86 

        sparc (Default)

        installPath

        Solaris image name to attach 

        Solaris:[version]_:[release]_:[architecture]

        For example: Solaris9_u7_sparc

        image_path

        Path to location where image file resides 

        /export/osp_image/:[installPath] (Default)

        image_subnet_addr

        Subnet address of the image server 

        :[target(/):sys.ipAddress] (Default)

        image_subnet_mask

        Subnet mask of the image server 

        255.255.255.0 (Default)

        media_src

        Path to the image files. 

        /cdrom/cdrom0/s0 (Example)

        ISO_files

        List of ISO files located in the directory specified in the media_src variable

        sol-10-GA-sparc-v1-iso sol-10-GA-sparc-v2-iso sol-10-GA-sparc-v3-iso sol-10-GA-sparc-v4-iso (Example)

      6. Save the variables set.

      7. Select the variables set that you just saved from the drop-down menu in the SolarisImage component row of the Plan Parameters table.

  5. On the Plan Details Run page, select the JET image server on which to create the profile.

    Tip –

    The host name of the JET image server ends in -jet.

  6. If needed, change the Profile Name.

  7. If needed, change the Profile Description.

  8. Update the list of the JET modules to use.

    The JET product modules are located on the JET server in the directory /opt/SUNWjet/Products.

    By default, the plan variable JET Modules Name(s) lists two JET modules to include in the Solaris profile component:

    base_config is the required JET module for basic Solaris installation. All other /opt/SUNWjet/Products modules are optional. Adding a module name to this list adds the module installation function and configuration variables to the newly created Solaris provisioning profile.

    One of the /opt/SUNWjet/Products optional modules is the custom module. The custom module installs arbitrary lists of Solaris packages, patches, and files, and can run arbitrary collections of scripts. See Using the custom Module for further details. You can also write other JET modules. For information about creating JET modules, see Appendix F, Creating Additional JET Modules.

  9. Click Run Plan (includes preflight).

  10. (Optional) Change default profile values.

    1. Navigate to the Solaris folder that contains the new Provision component.

      For example, /com/sun/n1osp/autogen-biss1-jet/provision/.

    2. Click the Solaris provisioning component name.

      For example, Solaris10_0205_sparc.standard.

    3. Edit default values.

      For information about Solaris profile variables, see Appendix B, Solaris Profile Component Variables.

      Note –

      If you are provisioning the Solaris OS to an x86 target host, you must create a custom JumpStart profile that deletes all existing partitions on the target host. For the profile_base_config variable value, point to the location of this profile

      1. Click the Edit button at bottom of Details page.

      2. Change values.

      3. Click the Check-in button at the bottom of the Details page.

ProcedureHow to Create a Solaris Provisioning Profile With JET (Command-Line Interface)

Steps

  1. To create a variable set for the SolarisImage component, type a command similar to the following example:


    # cr_cli -cmd cdb.vs.add -comp NM:/com/sun/n1osp/untyped/SolarisImage \
-name "solaris10sparc" -u admin -p admin -vars "version=10;release=ga;architecture=sparc; \
image_path=/export/install/s10ga-sparc;image_subnet_addr=10.42.42.2; \
image_subnet_mask=255.255.255.0;media_src="

  2. To run the plan, type a command similar to the following example:


    # cr_cli -cmd pe.p.run -u admin -p admin
-PID NM:/com/sun/n1osp/untyped/SolarisImage-create-profile
-tar H:NM:biss1-jet -comp - -vs solaris10sparc -pto 30 -nto 10
-f /tmp/solaris-profile

    Note the default N1 SPS user value you specified with the -u option. This user must exist after the OS installation for the N1 SPS Remote Agent software to start on the target host.