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NIM Install Methods

Network Installation Manager provides an easy, efficient way to install, upgrade, and maintain your AIX systems over the network. You can use Network Installation Manager to remotely manage AIX installations and upgrades on several systems without using AIX CDs. The client fileset gets installed with the standard AIX installation, but the server filesets need to be installed separately from the CD.

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NIM Install Methods

Network Installation Manager provides an easy, efficient way to install, upgrade, and maintain your AIX systems over the network. You can use Network Installation Manager to remotely manage AIX installations and upgrades on several systems without using AIX CDs. The client fileset gets installed with the standard AIX installation, but the server filesets need to be installed separately from the CD.

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METHOD 1 How to setup NIM Master

Introduction
In an environment with many AIX systems, installing, upgrading, and maintaining software can become cumbersome and time consuming. Network Installation Manager provides an easy, efficient way to install, upgrade, and even maintain your AIX systems over the network, while reducing down time. You can use Network Installation Manager to remotely manage AIX installations and upgrades on several systems without using AIX CDs. You can also use Network Installation Manager to install several AIX machines simultaneously. Network Installation Manager filesets are included in the base AIX CDs. The Network Installation Manager client fileset gets installed with the standard AIX installation, but the server filesets need to be installed separately from the CD.

Configuring a Network Installation Manager server


To configure a Network Installation Manager server: 1. Log in as root. 2. Run the following command to ensure that these filesets are installed:
# lslpp -l | grep nim bos.sysmgt.nim.client bos.sysmgt.nim.master bos.sysmgt.nim.spot 5.3.0.50 5.3.0.50 5.3.0.50 COMMITTED COMMITTED COMMITTED Network Install Manager Network Install Manager Network Install Manager SPOT

If the above filesets are not installed, install them from Volume 1 of the AIX base CDs before proceeding.

3. Create a Network Installation Manager Master, as follows:


# smitty nim

4. Select Configure the Network Installation Manager Environment, and you should
see the panel shown below.

5. Select Configure a Basic Network Installation Manager Environment (Easy


Startup) to get the following menu.

6. To select Primary Network Interface for the Network Installation Manager Master,
use the F4 function key. It lists the network interfaces. Select the network interface that you are using to put your system on the network. In this example, it's en0, as shown below.

7. Volume 1 of the base AIX CDs is in the CD-ROM drive of the system, as highlighted below.

Also on this panel are: LPP_SOURCE Name An lpp_source is a directory similar to AIX installation CDs. It contains AIX licensed program products in backup file format. Every resource has a unique identifiable name.

By default, the lpp_source name has the name lpp_source1, but you can change it to something more meaningful so that you can easily identify it. For example, if you are creating an AIX 5.3-TL06 lpp_source, you can use the name LPP53-TL06 instead of the default name. LPP_SOURCE Directory The directory where the lppsource resides on your Network Installation Manager server. By default, it will be in /export/lpp_source. (If it doesnt exist, Network Installation Manager creates this file system.) However, you can change it to wherever you choose. You can create your own file system, or even use a directory under an existing file system. Leave everything else as the default and press Enter. If the above runs successfully, it should create a Network Installation Manager server environment on this system. If it fails, then the /smit.log should have a message about why it failed. The Network Installation Manager Master server AIX level should always be higher or at the same level, as the lppsource AIX image it is serving. In this example, if you used AIX 5.3-TL06 CDs to create lpp_source, then the Network Installation Manager Master server has to be at, or above, AIX 5.3-TL06.

Configuring a Network Installation Manager client


1. Log in as root. 2. Enter:
# smitty nim

The following menu appears (see Figure below). The Network Installation Manager Master client menu is different from the Network Installation Manager Master server menu

3. Select Configure Network Installation Manager Client Fileset, and you should see
the following panel.

4. For Machine Name, enter the hostname of the client. 5. For Primary Network Install Interface, press F4 to get the network interface that you
want to use for the Network Installation Manager Master client. This example uses en0, as shown below.

6. For Host Name Network Install Master, give the host name (fully qualified) of the
Network Installation Manager Master server. Leave all the other defaults and press Enter.

METHOD. 2 1. Verify the user ulimit set to appropriately

2.
change it.

If it is not set properly please use the following screen shots as guidelines to

3. Verify Name Resolution for NIM Server

4. Verify Name Resolution for NIM Client

5. Required filesets providing NIM Server support

7. Create a separate filing system for NIM database

8. Create a separate directory for AIX NIM objects. Set proper permissions and
mount filing system. Create directory for image being supported.

9. Create or copy a mksysb image

10.

Resulting mksysb image size = 1.9G Standard JFS filing system maximum = 2G. JFS2 should be used for images over 2G. Shell setting for ulimit must be unlimited.

11.

Create NIM Master Database Environment.

12. Define NIM Master Communication Device Configure Primary Communication Network Network Name user defined Network Interface available ethernet adapter

13. NIM Master Database Process Subsystems NIM process subsystems created and started

14. Define AIX Resource used for Client Installation Define the source mksysb as a Resource a. Creating a NIM object in database b. Identifying object as a mksysb image c. Identifying server as a NIM Master d. Location of source mksysb image e. Name of object being created in database

15. Create NIM Master Database 16. Creating installation files and scripts (SPOT) a. Location of spot resource being created b. Pointer to source used to create the SPOT c. Name of the SPOT resource being created

17. Verify NIM resources were created

18. Add NIM Client and Communication device Define NIM Client partition

19. Create the NIM installation file bos_inst

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