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

ProcedureHow to Create a Non-Custom Windows Provisioning Profile (Browser Interface)

This procedure describes how to use the OS Provisioning browser interface to manually create your own Windows provisioning profile.

Before You Begin

Make sure the Windows image server exists and that the Windows OS software is available to that server. For more information about creating the Windows image server, see Setting Up the Windows Server and How to Set Up the Windows RIS 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 Create Profile in the Windows Images section.

  3. On the Plans Details page, click Run.

  4. Click Select from List in the WindowsImage component row of the Plan Parameters table.

  5. Click Create Set.

  6. Type a name for the variables set.

  7. Specify the variable values to use with this plan.

    If you need more information than is provided in the prompts in the component variables table, see the detailed list of components, along with default values and examples, in Windows Provisioning Profile Variables.

    Note –

    You must specify a value for the sif_file variable.

  8. Save the variables set.

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

  10. On the Plan Details Run page, select the Windows image server on which to attach the image.

    Tip –

    The host name of the Windows image server ends in -windows.

  11. Type values for the Profile Name and Profile Description plan variables.

  12. Deselect the Create Custom Profile check box.

  13. Click Run Plan (includes preflight).

  14. To verify that the Windows image is attached to the Windows image server, click Components in the left pane of the N1 SPS browser interface.

    You should see a component of type com.sun.n1osp#Provision that has a description similar to Windows provisioning profile.

Next Steps

To install the Windows OS on your target host, you must modify the BIOS boot settings, then run the provisioning plan. For more information, see Installing the Windows OS on the Target Host.