Less Known Solaris features...

Preparation of the system

A jumpstart server doesn´t have to be a big server. But it´s good practice to take the following into consideration:

• You have to copy your installation media onto the server. A Solaris version needs up to 4 Gigabyte on disk. Additionally you need space for further products (like other appliactions) and patches. The actual recommended patch cluster for Solaris 10 x86 is over 300 MB large for example .Depending on the amount of Solaris versions you want to provide, it´s a good idea not to spend the rest of an existing partition to your Jumpstart server.
• It´s a wise choice to have a fast network. As the system isn´t harded and unconfigured at the first install, the paranoid prefer to use a free Gigabit-Ethernet port at my jumpstart server and use a seperated VLAN for initial configuration. Or you use your admin LAN for this purpose. Either ways, for an fast installation gigabit ethernet is nice

When you have found a good place for your JET server, we can start with the installation.

The installation

After copying the JET package somehere on our new Jumpstart server, we have to install the package:

# pkgadd -d jet.pkg

The following packages are available:
1 JetEXPLO jet explo product
(sparc) 3.1.11
2 JetFLASH JET flash product
(sparc) 3.1.8
3 JetJASS JASS product
(sparc) 3.0.14
4 JetRBAC JET RBAC product
(sparc) 1.1.5
5 JetSAN JET san product
(sparc) 3.1.7
6 JetSBD Secure By Default product
(sparc) 1.0.2
7 JetSDS JET sds product
(sparc,i386) 3.4.4
8 JetVTS JET VTS product
(sparc) 3.0.11
9 JetWanBoot JET WanBoot support
(sparc) 1.1.1
10 JetZONES JET Zones module
(sparc) 1.1.12

... 2 more menu choices to follow;
for more choices, to stop display:

11 SUNWjet Sun JumpStart Enterprise Toolkit
(sparc,i386) 4.4
12 SUNWjetd JET Documentation
(sparc) 3.3.1

Select package(s) you wish to process (or 'all' to process
all packages). (default: all) [?,??,q]: all


All this modules implements in the JET framework:

• JetEXPLO: Installs and configures the Sun Explorer
• JetFLASH: Module to control Jumpstart Flash installes
• JetJASS: executes the Solaris Security Toolkit on the new host
• JetRBAC: configures the Role Based Access Control on the JET server to enable a role for all users allowed to trigger a Jumpstart Installation
• JetSAN: configures the SAN framework of Solaris
• JetSBD: configures the Secure-by-default setting
• JetSDS: configures the Solaris Volume Management
• etVTS: installs the Sun Validation Test Suite. It tests and validates Sun hardware by verifying the connectivity and functionality of hardware devices, controllers and peripherals.
• JetWANboot: configures the Jumpstart facilities for installation over the WAN
• JetZONES: configures Solaris Zones on the newly installed zones.

As the package is quite small with half a megabyte, i always install all packages on a jumpstartserver.


Processing package instance from

Sun JumpStart Enterprise Toolkit(sparc,i386) 4.4
Copyright 2007 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.
Use is subject to license terms.

The selected base directory must exist before
installation is attempted.

Do you want this directory created now [y,n,?,q] y
Using as the package base directory.

[...]

Processing package instance from

Secure By Default product(sparc) 1.0.2

#


This is all we have to do for the installation. Easy, isn´t it ?