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