Solaris Zone provisioning initialisation issue

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=88308

The above issue shows that because sysidtool is not running, inetd is not running and because that isn't running, gss isn't running and because gss isn't running, sshd isn't running.

The above link ends with a suggestion to login using zlogin -C zoneX and run through the initial configuration steps. I had already tried this and was greeted with an empty screen with no prompt.

At the time I just assumed that SPS had setup the zone and already configured everything (I didn't bother to wonder why I couldn't get to a shell) but after finding the post above I inadvertently discovered that the initial configuration screen was there, but not displaying properly. After a few hits of escape followed by 'escape-2' I was able to go through and configure one of the zones.

After the reboot it was working.

So my question is, how can I get SPS to configure all of that for me? I'm looking at creating about 70 different zones and I don't want to have a manual step to configure each one between creating the zones and getting SPS to be able to provision software to them.

[1409 byte] By [Tristan_Austina] at [2007-11-27 1:55:54]
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After reading 819-4902 docs for Solaris 4.0 plugin it seems to me, that the plugin should configure the zone for you.

Looking at sps_zcreate.sh (under resources) which is called from SPS Solaris plugin plans it seems it should do it(it is generating a sysidcfg file directly into zone into its /etc/sysidcfg ), are you sure your creation of zones did complete without any complaints ?

(dig deeper into details links)

You might have missed some parameters, check your varsets.

hth

Lubos

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