Setting up the provisioning environment
Before you can use TrueSight Server Automation to perform unattended installations of operating systems on servers, you must set up all the functional components of the TrueSight Server Automation provisioning system. Generally, you need to perform these tasks only once unless you are changing the configuration of your provisioning system.
For a high-level view of the tasks in a general provisioning workflow, see Implementation-process-for-provisioning.
The following table lists the technologies used for provisioning of various types of servers and the topics associated with each platform.
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Windows, Linux, ESX, and ESXi servers via the Pre-boot Execution Environment (PXE) | To set up the environment for Windows, Linux, ESX, and ESXi servers, see: Setting-up-and-sharing-a-data-store Configuring-the-data-store-for-PXE-provisioning Creating-boot-image-files-and-placeholders Configuring-a-DHCP-server-on-Windows Configuring-a-DHCP-server-on-Linux Configuring-the-PXE-and-TFTP-servers Configuring-system-package-types-for-Windows-and-Linux Creating-a-system-package-for-Windows-and-Linux For an example of how to set up and implement PXE-based provisioning, see How-to-use-TrueSight-Server-Automation-for-PXE-based-provisioning. |
Solaris SPARC and x86 servers via Oracle Solaris JumpStart software or Oracle Solaris Automated Installer | To set up the environment to provision Solaris systems, see Setting-up-Solaris-provisioning. |
AIX servers via the IBM Network Installation Manager (NIM) software | To set up the NIM environment, see Setting-up-AIX-provisioning. |
HP-UX servers via Ignite software | To set up the Ignite environment, see Setting-up-HP-UX-provisioning. |
All (optional) |