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.

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

1. 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

2. 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

3. Copy the bmisolaris.tar/bmisolaris-x86.tar file to the BladeLogic/rscd directory that you just created.
4. 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.
5. 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.  
6. Copy the renamed files to the newly created BMC BladeLogic/rscd directory.
7. 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.
8. 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-defaults
9. Create 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.