The following table identifies the procedures needed to manage diskless clients.
Task |
Description |
For Instructions |
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1. (Optional) Remove existing diskless client support |
If you have existing diskless clients that were added with the Solstice AdminSuite product, remove the diskless client support and OS services with the admhostdel and admhostmod commands before installing the Solaris 9 release. |
Solstice AdminSuite 2.3 Administration Guide |
3. (Optional) Enable Solaris Management Console logging to view diskless client error messages |
Choose Log Viewer from the console main window to view diskless client error messages. | |
4. Prepare for adding a diskless client |
Verify supported releases and identify the platform, mediapath, and cluster (or software group) of each diskless client. | |
5. Add required OS services to an OS server |
Add the OS services for the diskless clients you want to support with the smosservice command. You must identify the platform, media path, and each diskless client platform that you want to support. | |
6. Add a diskless client |
Add diskless client support by specifying all required information with the smdiskless command. | |
7. Boot the diskless client |
Verify that the diskless client support is successfully added by booting the diskless client. | |
8. (Optional) Delete diskless client support |
Delete support for a diskless client if it is no longer required. | |
9. (Optional) Delete OS services for a diskless client |
Delete OS services for a diskless client if they are no longer needed. | |
10. (Optional) Patch OS services |
Add, delete, list, or synchronize patches for diskless client OS services. |