Setting up the Automated Installer environment for provisioning
This topic describes how to set up an Oracle Solaris Automated Installer (AI) environment for use in BMC Server Automation provisioning.
Note
AI is supported in Solaris 11 and later versions. However, you can set up the JumpStart environment for Solaris 10 and earlier versions.
Before you begin
- You must have a working AI environment configured for and stocked with all the operating system installation files that you want to use to provision target computers.
- Each AI server must be running version 8.3 or later of the RSCD agent. For information about installing or upgrading the agent, see Installing only the RSCD agent (Linux and UNIX) or Upgrading RSCD agents.
- For AI environments that use DHCP, you must configure the DHCP server.
To set up AI
- On the computer that you are using for your AI configuration server, create the following subdirectory under the root directory of the configuration server:
/BladeLogic/rscd
For example, if you created a directory called /configserver to act as the root directory of the configuration server, your directory structure is:
/configserver/BladeLogic/rscd Extract the provision-files.zip file into a temporary directory.
This file expands into a large number of files and subdirectories. Depending on which architectures you plan to provision, navigate to one or both of the following files:SPARC bl_8.1.0/provisioning/jumpstart/bmisolaris.tar x86 bl_8.1.0/provisioning/jumpstart/bmisolaris-x86.tar Copy the bmisolaris.tar/bmisolaris-x86.tar file to the BladeLogic/rscd directory that you just created.
Obtain the Solaris agent installer files.
For example:
RSCD820-GA-SOL8-SPARC.sh
RSCD820-GA-SOL8-X86.sh
You can download these files from the BMC Support site. These files install an RSCD agent on each target server that is being provisioned.Rename the Solaris agent installer file.
For example:
Rename RSCD820-GA-SOL8-SPARC.sh to rscd.sh.
Rename the RSCD820-GA-SOL8-X86.SH file to rscd-sol-x86.sh.Copy the renamed files to the newly created BMC BladeLogic/rscd directory.
Create a response file called nsh-install-defaults for the installation of the RSCD agent, and store the response file in the newly created BladeLogic/rscd directory.
For information about creating an nsh-install-defaults file, see Creating an installation defaults file for Linux or UNIX agents.Confirm that the BladeLogic/rscd directory on the AI server contains the following files:
bmisolaris.tar
bmisolaris-x86.tar
rscd.sh
rscd-sol-x86.sh
nsh-install-defaultsCreate a local repository on the AI server with the folder name solaris on any path (for example, /repo/publisher/solaris), and publish the repository with the name solaris.
Note
You must name the folder as well as the publisher solaris.
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