Unattended pristine installation with IBM Tivoli Configuration Manager

Pristine installations of operating systems is a strategic method to ensure that the security of your machines is maintained and that no one has left accounts or Trojan horses on your servers waiting to be executed at a later date. For this reason, reasonable methods to complete this task from a cen...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor Corporativo: International Business Machines Corporation. International Technical Support Organization (-)
Otros Autores: Hochstetler, Stephen (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: [S.l.] : IBM, International Technical Support Organization c2003.
Edición:1st ed
Colección:IBM redbooks.
Materias:
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009626881006719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.