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Network Installation Management Guide and Reference
Using Client Machines as Resource Servers
Any machine in the NIM environment can be a
resource server. In simple environments, the NIM master is usually used to serve
all the NIM resources.
Defining resources on client machines can be
beneficial for the following reasons:
- Disk space limitations on the NIM master
may prohibit the storage of all the resources on a single machine.
- Resource usage may be heavy, and
communications and data access bottlenecks could occur if all the resources were
served by a single machine.
For example, if you use NIM to install 200
machines on 5 different subnets, you could have a set of resources created and
available on each subnet. Each set of resources would be used to install the
machines on the same subnet. In addition to distributing the workload among
several resource servers, this would also reduce the network traffic across the
gateways between the different subnets.
From Web-based System Manager
- From the NIM Resources container, double-click on Add New Resource.
The Add New Resource TaskGuide displays.
- Follow the TaskGuide instructions to create the resource.
From SMIT
- To create a resource on a NIM client,
enter the smit nim_mkres fast path.
- Select the Resource Type.
- In the displayed dialog fields, supply the
correct values for the resource options. Be sure to specify the name of the
client machine for the Server of the Resource field. Use the help information or
the LIST option to help you. All attributes specified when the resource is
defined (such as location and source) must be local to the server
machine.
From the Command Line
To create a resource on a NIM client,
specify the client's NIM name for the server attribute when defining the
resource.
Example:
To create an lpp_source resource named
images2 from a CD on the NIM client machine,
client_mac1, in the /resources/images directory,
enter:
nim -o define -t lpp_source -a
server=client_mac1 \
-a location=/resources/images -a source=/dev/cd0 images2
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