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Network Installation Management Guide and Reference
Initializing and Booting a Diskless or Dataless Machine
This procedure describes how to use NIM to
configure and boot a machine as a diskless or dataless client in the NIM
environment.
Prerequisites
- 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
.
From Web-based System Manager
- Select the diskless or dataless machine you want to initialize.
- From the Selected menu in the NIM container, select
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.
From SMIT
- 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.
From the Command Line
- 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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