<p>Wondering, if anybody tried to install Red Hat Linux Advanced Server 5.0 with N1 SPS OSP? Does it work as with Red Hat Linux Advanced Server 4.0?</p><p>--</p><p>Thorleif Wiik</p>

hi,i am trying to install the N! on my machine but the installation got hanged at theinstall Service Provisioning Components [Not complete]i had to wait for long time but there is nothing, i checked the log file at the /var/tmp >> installer.log.latest and here is the contant:All required perl ...

What options are available to pass a value assiged as a prompted variable/parameter in a plan to a container to resolve a value for a variable/parameter defined in a container which is called by the plan?Supposed the plan is defined as:<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><!-- generated by ...

Hi I am having problems connecting from my Master to the Local Distributor server both on Solaris 10I am using ssh with ssl and select encryption, no authentication on the Master I was able to ssh from master to LD with promptI check the path it was correctWhen I installed the LD I specified ssh I ...

When creating the OS Provisioning server, is DHCP server or service installed automatically? Or should I install manually? If it is installed automatically during creating OS provisioning server, how can I start up DHCP daemon? How do I check it works properly? Should I turn on power and push F12 ...

Hello,The cron that is automatically created by the installer script does NOT shutdown the N1 database. Our weekly maintenance script that calls the vacuumdb command has always called cr_server stop first.After some research, I have learned that without the DB running, the vacuumdb command will ...

I am looking for a way to assign shell variables which are defined in the "exec native" step, as a N1 variable.I will use this variable to generate a more userfriendly output in the "raise message" Has anyone an idea?Thanx

Unable to save the component typeThe resource version for component "preload.sh" changed from "1.0" to "1.1". (601633)Getting this error message when I try to update a component type to use the latest version of its defining component.We have a component type that we want to use to define the ...

Hi,I am looking for a hostsearch with wildcards, for example list all hosts with domain test.I tried a search with hdb.h.la grep domain, but it must be possible to search with *test* ?thanks in advance

when checking in a component, the installName is getting chopped *sometimes* example... checkin in file with name "20070519-195607-file-part.tar.gzsometimes, the installName property is being set to:"-file-part.tar.gz"Any idea why?Any way I can explicitly set installName of the component with ...

Hi,How can i get more info/Doc regarding Zoning in Solaris.Thanks in advance. S

Hi,Is there a good (simple) way of printing a messages to the user who is running a plan? I can't use raise since I don't want the execution to fail.regards,Eivind

I took the Grid course and thught I'd followed the install instructions to the T, but I get the following error in the message file:04/25/2007 13:50:06|qmaster|thomas|C|denied: request for user "sgeadmin" does not match credentials for connection <niaaa-james,execd,1>04/25/2007 ...

I have successfully installed a bunch of Solaris Zones on a target machine via the SPS Solaris Plugin, however I was initially unable to get sshd running. The problem I'm seeing is described clearly in someone elses post here: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=88308The above ...

Does somebody can give me an example how to add a varset to a component over cdb.vs.add? How does the argument vars syntax work?KaPi

Hi All,we are trying to grab stdout/stderr from within Jython CLI. Plan was run with 'pe.p.run'.Now we are trying to grab stdout/stderr from there using the 'pe.p.en' command. Therefore, we either need a so-called stepID, which we would have to parse from a separate file using 'pe.p.lo' ...

Hi All,once again, we experience a problem, when running udb commands from the Jython CLI, namely one of 'udb.g.la' or 'udb.u.la' (Others may be affected as well).Our user is logged on and the application handle works well for any other CLI calls.Our code looks something like this:app = ...

Hi All,for specific reasons, we want to install a set of components with fixed signatures from Jython CLI, but without appropriate plans. In fact, we want to simulate the behavior that we know from Plugin UI, i.e. linking directly to an installer of a component.We figured the following steps ...

Hi Experts,During customer project we want to hide controls of os system service. There is "access" keyword for <control> configuration. This parameter can set to PRIVATE or PROTECTED to control user acces to <control>s in the system service.But we want to use one of this protected ...

This question refers to the following document at docs.sun.com http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/819-6519/6n8he6e0a?a=viewThis document says if you're using Solaris 10 you have to manually enable TFTP on the JET server. However, the actual command listed is really enabling FTP and not TFTP. So, ...

I'm trying to create a very basic N1 OS Provisioning system on Solaris 10 with everything running on the same physical server. We only provision a few servers per month. On the physical server I installed the Master Server by running:cr_ms_solaris_sparc_pkg_5.2.shThen logged into the web ...

I have spent several hours reading the docs on N1 OS provisioning but I still don't have a clear understanding of the whole system and how it all works. I have three basic questions I'd like to get answered before I get started installing the software.1) In order to do basic OS provisioning, ...

In the GUI there's a button for "update remote agent..." Is it possible to do this from command line?

Hi,A few of our remote agent hosts with Solaris have been reinstalled (jumpstarted) sice they were added to SPS. They are now "unprepared", and prepare fails with this message:During deployment, plan prepHostsPlan failed because The plan (or preflight) "/system/prepHostsPlan" finished with 1 ...

Hi all,does anybody know how to add a host to a given hostset via cli?hdb.hs.mod -hIDs dosnt work as expected TIATobias

Hi experts,customer ask me how to reduce connection timeout time scale for SPS...?There is a parameter called "net.connection.timeout=3" in the config.properties masterserver configuration file. Is it possible to set this parameter to 0.1 and restart ms. Does this means, that all ssh (used for ...

Hi experts,we use host configuration with special host types. If we want to change only one attribute of the host with the cli we must change all attributes associates with the host. If we define only one new attribute all other values are set (back) to the default of the host type..(in the gui ...

Some OS patches require single user mode and reboot. Does the standard Solaris plugin patch management handle this? If not, could I write my own patch component and simply add "init 1; patchadd; init 6" to the execnative? Thanks - Jay

When I provision a SPARC ALOM host w/ a default Solaris profile variable set, everything works. When I create a variable set and modify the sysidcfg_root_password_base_config, set thesetup_user_acct_spsra=y, and modify the user_passwd_spsra, and run provision_start plan, the host net boots, but ...

Hi,we want to create a huge number of virtual hosts into sps repository with jython interface.for exemple our variables are:hostname = sps1.internet.comip = 192.168.1.1masterserver = masterserverhardware = v550and the script command looks like:app.execRaw ( 'hdb.h.add' , { 'name' : hostname ...

In order to take advantage of SPS it appears that the XML for N1 SPS (Service Provisioning System" needs to be known well to manage systems.I found the "Sun N1 Service Provisioning System 5.2 XML Schema Reference Guide". That describes the constructs with a minimal amount of in context ...

Does anyone know what the below error might be? Is this because the ALOM password is incorrect, or configuration of the IP for the service processor network? I am using a different networks for provisioning and service processor. pz [{INFO} Tue Jan 02 14:39:26 GMT+05:00 2007]:Powering Off ...

I was attempting my first provisioning a host and recieved the following error: Gathering network information..Client: 10.0.2.52 (10.0.2.0/255.255.255.0)Server: 10.0.2.3 (10.0.2.0/255.255.255.0, SunOS)Adding myportal to local /etc/hostsMerge hosts file /tmp/addhost.4939 with ...

When attempting to provision an ALOM host, I get the following error: Gathering network information..Client: 192.168.1.51 (192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0)Server: (/ERROR: No IP address specified., SunOS)ERROR: Could not obtain network information for server Any help is greatly appriciated. ...

This error occured while running plan: /com/sun/n1osp/untyped/SolarisImage-create-profile: 2006-12-27 15:16:40,293 ERROR [main] com.raplix.rolloutexpress.systemmodel.XMLUtil (XMLUtil.java:197) - Encountered error reading component at line 1, column 1: Content is not allowed in prolog. (601010) ...

At the risk of asking remedial questions, are these actions correct?: <li> When generating SSH keys, I am to generate one set with the ID used to install/owner of the MS (agent, server, cli)? (i cant remember now if cli installed w/ the master seerver or not, i think it did)</li> ...

Well, I can SSH to and fro and back from my two clients from both sides, yet still I am getting a "Host key verification failed ( i have enabled SSH debug on all output) when trying to create a Solaris Image Profile:....e yes -A 10.0.2.2 ...

Hi,does anybody know the syntax to use multiple attributes after the -attr switch in the cli command?ThanksKarsten

After a sucessfull install of the JET server, the OSP plug-in docs state the following:Troubleshooting:If your OS provisioning server is located on the same physical host as the boot and install server, youmust configure the interfaces on the system before you provision any target hosts. The ...

I am having difficulty getting through the Jet / Create action. The error reported is:Problems encountered during plan run or preflightThe plan (or preflight) "/com/sun/n1osp/untyped/Jet-create" finished with 1 failed host(s). (017034)The execNative step failed because the exit status "1" of ...

Hi team,i want to generate a container that contains user components. With different environment configuratio i want to install a different number of users. The user is a component with special component type SolarisUserCT (tools plugin)...In this CT you must define the passowrd as a parameter ...

Hi All,upon installation of the SPS Command Line Interface, one is asked to name the target master server, which is then written to some config.properties file.How can such a CLI installation be used to access different master servers? Ideally using command line arguments, which do not seem to ...

Hi All,we are currently starting to authenticate more 'n' more of our master servers against an LDAP backend, which works great. However, we wonder if anyone knows of a possibility to specify a backup host. Our LDAP servers are usually mirrored, but we cannot assure SPS logins if the primary ...

Hi,one of my customers has the following problem:If using execNative with "userToRunAs" set to <whateveruser>, the current implementation of the Remote Agent doesn't work similar to "su - <whateveruser>". As a consequence of that, the environment variables etc. are not available ...

How do I check in a resource from CLU which happens to be a specific CT?:[cliCmd] -cmd rsrc.ci -s :[sessionID] \-src $theFile -dst :[spsPath]/${theFile} \-type ":[fileType]"Where:cliCMD = path to my cr_clitheFile = /var/tmp/myRPM.rpmspsPath = type = com.sun.linux#RPM CTIt works for normal files ...

Hey!<P>How do I host assign attributes when using:<P><targetRef hostName='tmp_:[hostName]' typeName='com.sun.tst#tstHost'></targetRef><P>Like if my hostType <i>com.sun.tst#tstHost</i> has the following ...

Hi All, Is there a workaround to use rpm -U option with linux rpm plugins ? Instead of the default option of rpm -i . IHac requesting for a way to use -U option:Any pointers/ideas appreciated:Regards--n1core

Is there a quick guide to configure SSH with other SSH versions than OpenSSH?