On 5/4/11 2:40 PM, Jon K Aimone wrote:
Hi,
How does one go about getting AI and Solaris 10 network installation to coexist
on the same multihomed server?
Yes, this is a loaded question. We have been using the AI server as our DHCP
server for the lab. Which works fine as long as the S10 and S11 installers agree
to make certain the DHCP macros are configured correctly for themselves. With
changes to AI to make multihomed servers work better, this doesn't appear to be
the case. Lemme 'xplain...
For Solaris 10 installation using DHCP certain installation tools create client
macros named after the client ID. This is what's in the customer docs to do.
Sorta the way AI used to do it. This was cool, because then when I set up the
same target machine for AI it would change the macro to suite its needs.
Now AI doesn't change that macro, and it doesn't warn the user that there is
such a macro, so when I did a boot net:dhcp - install my system obediently
installed Solaris 10, again. My witty response what "Huh? What the <censored>?"
I've got a couple questions on this. If there is an existing macro for a
specific client that is connected to a JumpStart I would expect that
macro to install Solaris 10 from that JumpStart setup. What was done
that the expectation was that the macro would be rewritten, was
"installadm create-client" run to update the client and it just didn't
update the macro? If that's the case then perhaps we have a bug (or I'm
missing something) it appears that the man page states "Sets up DHCP
macro, if it doesn't exist" but it doesn't state that it updates that
macro if it finds a preexisting macro. If it's not updating the existing
macro I think that's probably a bug in this case since we're trusting
that the existing macro is correct and I don't think that's really the
behavior we want here.
-evan
So now it looks like I'm going to have to wrapper installadm to clean up the
DHCP macro... just like I've had to do with Solaris 10 jumpstart. And here I
thought things were going to get easier for customers.
<usual CYA>
Or did I miss something fundamental... again?
</usual CYA>
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