Solaris 9 Installation Guide

Identification Section Keywords

This section describes the keywords for use in the Archive Identification section and the values you can define for them.

In addition to the keywords that are defined by the Solaris Flash archive, you can define other keywords. The Solaris Flash archive ignores user-defined keywords, but you can provide scripts or programs that process the identification section and use user-defined keywords. The name of a user-defined keyword must begin with X and can contain any characters other than linefeeds, equal signs, and null characters. For example, X-department is a valid name for a user-defined keyword.

The following table explains keywords that describe the archive.

Table 20-2 Identification Section Keywords

Keywords 

Value Definitions 

content_name (required)

The Solaris Flash archive deployment utilities use the value of the content_name keyword to identify the archive. The value can be no longer than 256 characters.

You might want the value of the content_name keyword to describe the function and purpose of the archive because the content_name value might be presented to the user during the archive selection and extraction processes.

creation_date

The value of the creation_date keyword is a textual timestamp that represents the time that you created the archive. The value must be in the format YYYYMMDDhhmmss. For example, 20000131221409 represents January 31st, 2000 10:14:09 p.m. If you do not specify a creation date, the default date is set in Greenwich mean time (GMT).

creation_master

The value of the creation_master keyword is the name of the master system you used to create the archive. If you do not specify a value for creation_master, flar create uses the system name that is reported by uname -n.

content_type

You define the value of the content_type keyword to specify a category for the archive. The Solaris Flash archive deployment utilities display the value of the content_type keyword during deployment.

content_description

You define the value of the content_description keyword to provide a description of the contents of the archive. The value of this keyword has no length limit.

content_author

You define the value of the content_author keyword to identify the creator of the archive. Suggested values include the full name of the creator and the creator's email address.

content_architectures

The value of the content_architectures keyword is a comma-separated list of the kernel architectures that the archive supports. When you create a Solaris Flash archive, the archive generates the value of the content_architectures keyword.

If the archive contains this keyword, the Solaris Flash archive deployment utilities validate the kernel architecture of the clone system against the list of architectures that the archive supports. The deployment fails if the archive does not support the kernel architecture of the clone system. If the keyword is not present, the deployment utilities do not validate the architecture of the clone system. 

creation_node

The value returned from uname -n. If you create a Solaris Flash archive in which the root directory is not /, flar create uses the contents of the nodename(4) file.

creation_hardware_class

The value returned from uname -m. If you create a Solaris Flash archive in which the root directory is not /, flar create inserts the string UNKNOWN.

creation_platform

The value returned from uname -i. If you create a Solaris Flash archive in which the root directory is not /, flar create inserts the string UNKNOWN.

creation_processor

The value returned from uname -p. If you create a Solaris Flash archive in which the root directory is not /, flar create inserts the string UNKNOWN.

creation_release

The value returned from uname -r. If you create a Solaris Flash archive in which the root directory is not /, flar create attempts to use the contents of root_directory/var/sadm/system/admin/INST_RELEASE. If flar create cannot read this file, it inserts the string UNKNOWN.

creation_os_name

The value returned from uname -s. If you create a Solaris Flash archive in which the root directory is not /, flar create attempts to use the contents of root_directory/var/sadm/system/admin/INST_RELEASE. If flar create cannot read this file, it inserts the string UNKNOWN.

creation_os_version

The value returned from uname -v. If you create a Solaris Flash archive in which the root directory is not /, flar create inserts the string UNKNOWN.