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

Advanced NIM Configuration Tasks

Additional Topics

NIM Master Management Tasks

NIM Name Resolution

Booting a FDDI Interface Over a Router

Default Paging Space During BOS Installation Through NIM

Migrating Diskless and Dataless Clients and NIM SPOTS

Defining the NIM Environment Using the nimdef Command

Name Requirements for NIM Object Definitions

Interacting with the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol

Creating File Resources in the root Directory

Restricting NIM Client Resource Allocation

Preventing Machines from Adding Themselves as Clients

Disabling Client CPU ID Validation

Exporting NIM Resources Globally

Creating Network Boot Images to Support Only the Defined Clients and Networks

Updating a Spot With New Device Support for a New Level of AIX

Tuning Client Request Processing

Network Installation Management Concepts

Sample Files

Error and Warning Messages

Network Installation Management Troubleshooting

Appendixes

Appendix A. Network Boot

Appendix B. Notices

Glossary

Index