Unattended Pristine Installation with IBM Tivoli Configuration Manager.

Front cover -- Contents -- Notices -- Trademarks -- Preface -- The team that wrote this redbook -- Become a published author -- Comments welcome -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Overview -- 1.2 Attended versus unattended installations -- 1.3 Attended pristine installation -- 1.4 Unattended installations -- 1.5 What this book covers -- Chapter 2. Integrating AIX NIM with IBM Tivoli Configuration Manager -- 2.1 Overview of AIX Network Installation Management -- 2.1.1 Installing the base operating system -- 2.1.2 Installing and customizing the software -- 2.1.3 Maintaining the software -- 2.1.4 Configuring the machine -- 2.1.5 Booting diagnostics -- 2.1.6 Booting in maintenance mode -- 2.1.7 Initializing diskless and dateless clients -- 2.1.8 Installing BOS on an alternate disk -- 2.2 Choosing a NIM master -- 2.3 Basic NIM operations and configuration -- 2.3.1 Configuring the master and creating basic installation resources -- 2.3.2 Using installation images -- 2.3.3 Using a mksysb image -- 2.3.4 Using a SPOT-copy -- 2.3.5 Performing a non-prompted BOS installation -- 2.3.6 Installing to clients on ATM networks -- 2.3.7 Customizing NIM clients and SPOT resources -- 2.3.8 Supporting diskless and dataless clients -- 2.3.9 Adding a diskless or dataless client -- 2.4 NIM client operations -- 2.5 Advanced NIM installation tasks -- 2.5.1 Controlling the master or client -- 2.5.2 Disabling master push permissions -- 2.5.3 Resetting machines -- 2.5.4 Using client machines as resource servers -- 2.5.5 Defining machine groups -- 2.5.6 Adding new members to machine groups -- 2.5.7 Removing members from machine groups -- 2.5.8 Including and excluding a group member from operations -- 2.5.9 Using resource groups to allocate related resources -- 2.5.10 Managing software on standalone clients and SPOT resources -- 2.6 Advanced NIM configuration tasks.

2.6.1 Removing machines from the NIM environment -- 2.6.2 Creating additional interface attributes -- 2.6.3 Using the installp command -- 2.7 Integrating NIM with IBM Tivoli Configuration Manager -- 2.7.1 Creating tasks -- 2.7.2 Executing tasks -- 2.8 Installing BOS on a NIM client from IBM Tivoli Configuration Manager -- Chapter 3. Integrating Tivoli Configuration Manager and Remote Deployment Manager -- 3.1 Benefits of using Remote Deployment Manager -- 3.1.1 Remote Deployment Manager components -- 3.2 Installing Remote Deployment Manager -- 3.2.1 Installing IBM Director Server Version 4.1 -- 3.2.2 Installing the Remote Deployment Manager Server -- 3.3 Defining Remote Deployment Manager tasks -- 3.3.1 Windows Native Install task -- 3.3.2 Creating the Service Pack 3 install image -- 3.3.3 Creating a Tivoli endpoint install image -- 3.3.4 Creating an install task -- 3.4 Executing the Remote Deployment Manager task -- 3.4.1 Remote Deployment Manager command line interface -- Chapter 4. System Installation Suite -- 4.1 SIS concepts -- 4.2 SIS installation and configuration -- 4.2.1 Installing SIS on the image server -- 4.2.2 Installing SIS on the golden client -- 4.2.3 SIS in action -- 4.2.4 Integrating the SIS client with Tivoli Configuration Manager -- 4.2.5 Scaling the solution -- Related publications -- IBM Redbooks -- Other publications -- Online resources -- How to get IBM Redbooks -- Help from IBM -- Index -- Back cover.

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