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Network Installation Management Guide and Reference
This procedure describes how to
use NIM to configure and boot a machine as a diskless or dataless client in
the NIM environment.
- The NIM master must be configured, and the resources
for diskless and dataless clients must be defined. See Configuring the NIM Master and Creating Resources to Support Diskless and Dataless Clients Only.
- The NIM client must already exist in the NIM
environment. To add the client to the NIM environment, use the Adding a Diskless or Dataless Client to the NIM Environment procedure.
- Select the Machines container.
- In the contents area, select the diskless or dataless machine you want to
initialize.
- From the Selected menu, choose Initialize Machine
Resources.
- Use the dialog to specify or select the resources to use for
initialization. You will specify either the Home resource or Shared
Home resource for the machine, but not both.
- After completion of the initialization operation, use the Booting a Machine Over the Network procedure to boot the client machine over the
network.
Note: On older model rspc systems, it may be
necessary to permanently set the bootlist from the firmware menus to make the
client always boot over the network. For other systems, the bootlist is
automatically set the first time the machine is booted as a diskless/dataless
client.
- After the client boots over the network and performs some initialization,
the client will display instructions for you to select the console for the
machine.
- On the NIM master, enter the smit
nim_dd_init fast path.
- Select the client to be initialized from the list of
clients displayed on your screen.
- Supply the values for the required fields. Use
the help information and the LIST option to help you specify the correct
values for the initialization options.
- After completion of the initialization operation, use
the Booting a Machine Over the Network procedure to boot the client machine over the
network.
Note: On older model rspc systems, it may be
necessary to permanently set the bootlist from the firmware menus to make the
client always boot over the network. For other systems, the bootlist is
automatically set the first time the machine is booted as a diskless/dataless
client.
- After the client boots over the network and performs
some initialization, the client will display instructions for you to select
the console for the machine.
- To initialize the client resources for diskless
clients, enter the following on the NIM master:
nim -o dkls_init -a spot=SPOTName -a root=RootName \
-a dump=DumpName -a paging=PagingName ClientName
- To initialize the client resources for dataless
clients, enter the following on the NIM master:
nim -o dtls_init -a spot=SPOTName -a root=RootName \
-a dump=DumpName ClientName
Note: For detailed information about other attributes you can
specify for the dkls_init and dtls_init operations, see dkls_init and dtls_init.
- After completion of the initialization operation, use
the Booting a Machine Over the Network procedure to boot the client machine over the
network.
Note: On older model rspc systems, it may be
necessary to permanently set the bootlist from the firmware menus to make the
client always boot over the network. For other systems, the bootlist is
automatically set the first time the machine is booted as a diskless/dataless
client.
- After the client boots over the network and performs
some initialization, the client will display instructions for you to select
the console for the machine.
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