Installation Guide and Reference
About This Book
How-To's for AIX Installation Tasks
How-To's for Base Operating System Installation Tasks
Operating System and Optional Software Installation
What's New in Base Operating System Installation and Software Installation?
Introduction to Base Operating System Installation
Installation Options
New and Complete Overwrite Installation / Preservation Installation
Migration Installation
Configuring the Operating System
Customized BOS Installations
The bosinst.data File
Optional Software Products and Service Updates
AIX Documentation and the Documentation Library Service
Creating and Installing System Backups
Alternate Disk Installation
Software Product Packaging Concepts
Troubleshooting Operating System and Optional Software Installation
Network Installation
What's New in Network Installation Management (NIM)?
Network Installation Management Introduction
NIM Task Roadmap
EZNIM
Basic NIM Operations and Configuration
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
Using NIM to Install Clients Configured with Kerberos Authentication
Concurrency Control
Alternate Disk Migration Installation
Advanced NIM Configuration Tasks
Additional Topics
Network Installation Management Concepts
Sample Files
Error and Warning Messages
Network Installation Management Troubleshooting
Appendixes
Appendix A. Network Boot
Appendix B. Notices
Glossary
Index