Host-to-ILOM Interconnect Feature Might be Left in Disabled State When Oracle Solaris Automated Installer is Used (18652144, 18696723)

When using the Oracle Solaris Automated Installer (introduced with Oracle Solaris 11) to deploy software on a server, the server's Host-to-ILOM interconnect feature (required for many Oracle Hardware Management Pack features) might be left in a disabled state after the Automated Installer performs a reboot during installation.

To determine if your server was set up by the Automated Installer, enter the following command:

# netadm list | grep ncp

ncp         Automatic      online      <-- Automated Installer was used
ncp         DefaultFixed   disabled

Workaround

If this happens, reboot the server a second time after the installation has completed.