Ethan, thank you. I misinterpreted the part about serving older images thinking I was golden.
"However, to serve an older image, one must only serve on a single subnet" - Tom On Friday, 14 January 2011 at 12:26, Ethan Quach wrote: > Tom, > On 01/14/11 11:43, Tom Warner wrote: > > Hello Caiman-discuss, > > idn_decode failed (9): `System iconv failed' > Resolving labtech-mpk-ai4... failed: node name or service name not known. > wget: unable to resolve host address > > SPARC installs fail unless I change the hostname to an IP in the client's > wanboot.conf file. > > Was this an intended change in later version of installadm? > > This was part of the changes to support multi-homed AI servers. By > default, if your server has multiple interfaces (vboxnet0 counts), > installadm will put the server's hostname in wanboot.conf, and the > client will resolve it to the right address at its boot time. However, > due to bug 7011720, the client isn't able to update its hosts file and > hence fails to resolve the hostname. (This bug will be fixed in the > 158 images.) > > Is there a configuration I can change? > > Yes, you can configure your AI server such that it only serves off of > one network. With this setting, installadm will put the server's IP > address for that configured network in wanboot.conf and things should > work as before. The full flag day for this can be found here: > [1]http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Project+caiman/Multi-homed+AI+se > rver+support > basically what you'd need to do is to set the property in the > [2]svc:/system/install/server:default service to only serve one > network. e.g (fill in your IP and netmask info): > svccfg -s [3]svc:/system/install/server:default setprop > all_services/networks = > 192.168.1.1/24 > Then recreate your install service (or re-run the create-client command > for the needed clients) > -ethan > > My server built on 151a create the wanboot.conf with and IP > and I don't have a problems. > > Thanks, Tom > > > > > # pkg info installadm > Name: install/installadm > Summary: installadm utility > Description: Automatic Installation Server Setup Tools > Category: System/Administration and Configuration > State: Installed > Publisher: solaris > Version: 0.5.11 > Build Release: 5.11 > Branch: 0.156 > Packaging Date: Thu Dec 30 22:17:35 2010 > Size: 575.89 kB > FMRI: > [4]pkg://solaris/install/[email protected],5.11-0.156:20101230T221735Z > # > > > _______________________________________________ > caiman-discuss mailing list > [5][email protected] > [6]http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/caiman-discuss > > References > > 1. > http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Project+caiman/Multi-homed+AI+server+support > 2. svc:/system/install/server:default > 3. svc:/system/install/server:default > 4. > mailto:pkg://solaris/install/[email protected],5.11-0.156:20101230T221735Z > 5. mailto:[email protected] > 6. http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/caiman-discuss > _______________________________________________ > caiman-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/caiman-discuss _______________________________________________ caiman-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/caiman-discuss

