I've got a Solaris 10 x86 JET server which I need to multihome so it can jumpstart clients on a new LAN
Whats the process for configuring the JET to serve configs for more than one network ?
I have a number of solaris 9 and 10 sparc servers (no RAID) that are custom dvd jumpstarts provided by SONUS Networks for their softswitch VOIP products. Normal install process would be to use the DVD supplied by SONUS to do a reinstall from scratch in the event of failure. Since we deploy our softswitches to unmanned locations having someone manually do a rebuild and reconfiguration of the servers is not the best. We have out of bound access to the machines ALOMS so running commands from OpenBoot is not a problem.
i have looked at using puppet in combination with theforeman to provide network jumpstart installs and software configuration, but due to the way the custom SONUS DVDs were created a network jumpstart has been problematic and would require us to recreate the entire install process which would involve modifying the SONUS custom scripts which we don't feel comfortable doing. The best solution to us would to image/clone a server and then in the event of a failure have the option to do a install of that image/clone from a local linux server. Hopefully being able to leverge DHCP and NFS.
Any ideas would be very helpful. Thank you.
I have configured the Jump Start installation on Solaris-10u9 which is running fine except one problem. i.e the registration page that is been included in new releases and I am unable to avoid it because of the solaris bug. But I have heard that Solaris Jump Start with JET package can be used to make it fully unattended installation. But I am bit confused about it,
Does JumpStart install server also needs to configure for JET to work or is it the Separte tool which does not have any dependency on jumpstart?
I have configured the custom solaris jumpstart installation server. But it asks me for prompts at:
- Asks from a menu of 6 which installer to use, either 1. Interactive, 2. Custom jumpstart etc...
- Ask for next at system identification screen.
Asks for NFSV4 next to continue button.
Oracle registration, there is a check box that I want to NOT register with oracle, then I hit next and it asks for proxy servers info. After I hit next for the 2nd time then it installs.
my sysidcfg file is:
keyboard=US-English system_locale=en_US.ISO8859-1 timezone=US/Pacific timeserver=localhost terminal=xterms service_profile=open name_service=NONE security_policy=NONE root_password=Ax1sT8ZVkPzaM network_interface=e1000g0 {primary hostname=client1 netmask=255.255.255.0 protocol_ipv6=no default_route=192.168.101.1} nfs4_domain=dynamic auto_reg=disable
With Solaris 10, can I use jumpstart to partially define the system and have the installer then prompt the user for anything else?
This would be like the kickstart file behaviour for RHEL's Anaconda install system, anything which hasn't been declared in the kickstart file will be prompted for. So with this I can specify some common base settings like timezone, keyboard, packages, etc while leaving settings like network config to be defined by the person installing the system.
Is it possible to do this with Solaris 10 (update 8)? The main reason is that I need to load a driver for the HP storage controller (CPQary3) found in, for example, the G5 servers. I've successfully installed the driver into the miniroot so that the installer can see the disks, but this doesn't follow through to the installed system. If I set up a jumpstart profile with post-install script, then the interactive GUI doesn't show up. If I don't configure a profile, but specify a finish script then the interactive GUI doesn't show up.
Any ideas? Maybe I could slipstream this into the default install image itself?
Edit: not that it will likely make a difference but I'm hosting all the network boot files on RHEL (which was fine when I only wanted to PXE boot Linux, but Solaris has been a whole new kind of pain).