First Edition (October 1997)

Trademarks and Acknowledgements

About This Guide and Reference

Chapter 1. Network Installation Management (NIM) Introduction

Chapter 2. Choosing a NIM Master

Chapter 3. Basic NIM Operations and Configuration

Chapter 4. NIM Client Operations

Chapter 5. Advanced NIM Installation Tasks

Controlling the Master or Client

Resetting Machines

Using Client Machines as Resource Servers

Defining a Machine Group

Adding New Members to Machine Groups

Removing Members from Machine Groups

Including and Excluding a Group Member from Operations on the Group

Using Resource Groups to Allocate Related Resources to NIM Machines

Managing Software on Standalone Clients and SPOT Resources

Rebuilding Network Boot Images for a SPOT

Maintaining Software in an lpp_source

Viewing Installation, Configuration, and Boot Logs

Verifying Installation with the lppchk Operation

Chapter 6. Advanced NIM Configuration Tasks

Chapter 7. Additional Topics

Chapter 8. Network Installation Management Concepts

Chapter 9. Network Installation Management Commands

Chapter 10. Error and Warning Messages

Chapter 11. Network Installation Management Troubleshooting

Appendix A. Network Boot

Appendix B. Hardware-Related Tasks

Appendix C. Sample Files

Appendix D. NIM Compatibility and Limitations

Glossary