OS Provisioning profiles define the provisioning and installation details.
To complete provisioning, you must have an OS Provisioning profile and an OS Configuration profile. OS Provisioning profiles define the provisioning and installation details.
The following information is covered in this section:
About Oracle Solaris OS Provisioning Profiles
About Linux Provisioning Profiles
You can create one or more new libraries to organize and save the images to a location other than the Initial EC Software Library. You can save the images in a local software library on the Enterprise Controller or in a Network Attached Storage (NAS) software library that you create on an NFS server that the Enterprise Controller can access.
After you download the OS images, you can copy or create new OS Provisioning profiles. You can reuse the profiles in a variety of plans that have OS provisioning as a step.
MPxIO is highly desirable on SPARC, whether for a standalone Global Zone or an Oracle VM Server for SPARC Control Domain. MPxIO is enabled on the default OS Provisioning profiles.
When Oracle Solaris 11 OS Provisioning plan is applied, it creates an AI manifest based on the parameters provided to the plan.
For each OS Provisioning profile, you specify the OS image, OS setup parameters, user account details, ISCSI disk usage, file system parameters, and the naming service for the operating system.
When you specify the naming service in the OS Provisioning profile, you must ensure that you enter the correct information in each of the fields. IP addresses 0.0.0.0 or 255.255.255.255 are allowed. Enter each IP address in a new row in the Name Server field. In the Domain Name Search List field, enter each domain name, such as 1domain.com and 2domain.com, on a new line.
As an alternative, you can use a profile that specifies a custom manifest. You do this when you want to install a site-specific file system or OS version.
Automated Installer (AI) provides a customizable, hands-free installation mechanism for Oracle Solaris and uses an XML-based file format as the description of the installation parameters called an AI manifest. When Oracle Solaris 11 OS Provisioning plan is applied, it creates an AI manifest based on the parameters provided to the plan. Starting with Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center 12.3 release, you can provide your own AI manifest to use instead of using the AI manifest created by Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center. The custom manifest allows installation to be customized in various ways such as disk layout and the software to be installed on the system. You can choose custom manifest while creating the Solaris 11 OS Provisioning profile and upload the XML file containing the custom manifest.
For Oracle Solaris 9 and 10 only, you can optionally use JumpStart Enterprise Toolkit (JET) modules to specify additional Installation Parameters. Oracle Solaris 11 uses the Automated Installer (AI) instead of JET.
Within the Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center UI, there are 2 methods of influencing the JET template variables:
Import a JET Template
Add JET variables to the OS provisioning profile
You cannot manipulate the JET template in the UI. When you want to make changes to a template, make the changes and then import the template.
Each profile is defined by the OS image that is in the Software Library.
When you specify the naming service in the OS Provisioning profile, ensure that you enter the correct information in each of the fields. IP addresses 0.0.0.0 or 255.255.255.255 are allowed. Enter each IP address in a new row in the Name Server field. In the Domain Name Search List field, enter each domain name, such as 1domain.com and 2domain.com, on a new line.