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Tivoli Provisioning Manager for OS Deployment Version 7.1.1.11 User's Guide Tivoli Provisioning Manager for OS Deployment Version 7.1.1.11 User's Guide ii Tivoli Provisioning Manager for OS Deployment: User's Guide Contents Chapter 1. Defining targets ......1 Restoring a system profile manually .....51 Adding targets..............2 Generic System Profiles (GSP) for Windows Detecting targets automatically .......3 operating systems ............52 Adding targets to the Target Monitor manually . 3 Generating Generic System Profile......52 Importing and exporting targets lists .....4 Configuration file ...........53 Configuring new targets .........5 Command line output ..........55 Setting the type of target boot .......6 Software modules for Windows operating systems 56 Changing the default administrative group . 7 WinPE and its uses ...........56 Requirements for VMware targets .......7 Creating software modules ........58 Injecting drivers on WinPE to deploy Windows XP Editing software modules ........71 guests ...............9 Keeping command lines confidential .....72 Booting non x86 and non x86-64 targets .....10 Keyword substitution ..........72 Booting pSeries targets on the OS deployment Customizing the software page .......74 server ...............10 OS configuration and software bindings ....75 Booting CellBlades targets on the OS deployment Scheduling the application of software modules server ...............11 for Windows operating systems ......78 Booting SPARC targets on the OS deployment Working with hardware configurations .....79 server ...............11 Setting up your environment .......80 Booting on UEFI targets ..........13 Hardware configuration objects and tasks . 81 Organizing targets ............13 RAID and Fiber Channel hardware capture. 82 Configuring targets ............14 Creating a hardware environment ......82 Configuring multiple targets........14 Creating a hardware configuration object . 91 Configuring targets for fully unattended OS Creating a hardware capture configuration . 91 deployments .............15 Capturing hardware information using templates 92 Setting partition sizes on the targets .....16 Capturing hardware information once ....92 Task templates for Windows operating systems . 93 Chapter 2. Provisioning Windows Customizing a screen layout........94 operating systems on x86 and x86-64 Creating and editing deployment schemes . 94 Creating media for deployment for Windows targets ...............17 operating systems ............99 Overview of WinPE deployment engines ....17 Creating an OS deployment USB drive with the Windows Automated Installation Kit .....18 wizard ..............100 Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit . 20 Creating an OS deployment USB drive with Creating a WinPE 3.x deployment engine . 21 command lines ............101 Creating a WinPE 4.x deployment engine . 22 Creating OS deployment CD and DVD ....102 Editing the information of a WinPE deployment Deploying Windows operating systems.....105 engine ...............24 The deployment process.........105 Upgrading WinPE deployment engines and Deployment requirements ........106 hardware environments .........25 Starting a one-time deployment ......107 Adding matching target models to a WinPE Deploying a hardware configuration ....109 deployment engine ...........25 Redeploying .............110 Binding drivers to a WinPE deployment engine 26 Monitoring deployments ........118 System profiles for Windows operating systems . 30 Bindings created during deployment ....122 BitLocker compatibility .........30 Enabling the BitLocker feature and creating the Chapter 3. Provisioning Linux partition after the deployment for Windows 7 operating systems on x86 and x86-64 and Windows 2008 R2 ..........31 Creating system profiles .........32 targets ..............123 Organizing and editing system profiles ....42 System profiles for Linux operating systems . 123 Updating a system profile with a Language Pack Creating system profiles .........124 or a HotFix .............42 Organizing and editing system profiles ....127 Browsing partition files .........43 Browsing partition files .........128 Changing the partition layout .......43 Changing the partition layout .......128 Updating device mapping ........45 Updating device mapping ........130 OS configurations and fixed common parameters 46 OS configurations and fixed common Binding drivers to a Windows system profile . 48 parameters .............131 © Copyright IBM Corp. 2012 iii Software modules for Linux operating systems . 133 Starting a one-time deployment ......209 Creating software modules ........133 Monitoring deployments ........210 Editing software modules ........136 Bindings created during deployment ....214 Keeping command lines confidential ....137 Keyword substitution .........138 Chapter 5. Provisioning VMWare ESXi Customizing the software page ......139 on x86-64 targets..........215 OS configuration and software bindings . 140 System profiles for ESXi systems .......215 Scheduling the application of software modules Creating an unattended setup system profile for for Linux operating systems .......143 VMWare ESXi ............215 Working with hardware configurations .....144 Organizing and editing system profiles ....216 Setting up your environment .......145 Changing the partition layout .......216 Hardware configuration objects and tasks . 146 OS configurations and fixed common RAID and Fiber Channel hardware capture . 147 parameters .............216 Creating a hardware environment .....147 Task templates .............218 Creating a hardware configuration object . 156 Creating and editing deployment schemes. 219 Creating a hardware capture configuration . 156 Deploying VMWare ESXi .........222 Capturing hardware information using The deployment process.........222 templates..............157 Deployment requirements ........223 Capturing hardware information once ....157 Starting a one-time deployment ......224 Task templates for Linux operating systems . 158 Monitoring deployments ........224 Customizing a screen layout .......159 Bindings created during deployment ....228 Creating and editing deployment schemes. 159 Creating media for deployment for Linux operating systems ............164 Chapter 6. Provisioning non x86 and Creating an OS deployment USB drive with the non x86-64 targets .........229 wizard ..............165 Provisioning Linux on PowerPC and Cell targets 229 Creating an OS deployment USB drive with System profiles on Linux operating systems on command lines ............166 PowerPC ..............229 Creating OS deployment CD and DVD ....167 Software modules for Linux operating systems Deploying Linux ............170 on PowerPC.............235 The deployment process.........170 Task templates for Linux operating systems on Deployment requirements ........171 PowerPC ..............245 Starting a one-time deployment ......172 Deploying Linux on PowerPC .......252 Deploying a hardware configuration ....173 Provisioning Solaris on SPARC targets .....257 Redeploying.............174 System profiles for Solaris operating systems 258 Monitoring deployments ........183 Software modules for Solaris operating systems 262 Bindings created during deployment ....187 Task templates for Solaris operating systems 272 Deploying Solaris ...........278 Chapter 4. Provisioning VMWare ESX Provisioning AIX on PowerPC targets .....285 Server on x86 and x86-64 targets . 189 System profiles for AIX operating systems. 285 Task templates for AIX operating systems . 288 System profiles for VMWare operating systems . 189 Deploying AIX ............295 Creating an unattended setup system profile for VMWare..............190 Organizing and editing system profiles ....190 Chapter 7. Multiple server architecture 301 Browsing partition files .........191 Server roles ..............301 Changing the partition layout .......191 OS deployment server replication ......303 Updating device mapping ........193 Replicating OS deployment servers with a OS configurations and fixed common schedule ..............306 parameters .............194 Replicating an OS deployment server once Task templates for VMWare operating systems . 195 manually ..............307 Customizing a screen layout .......196 Replicating offline with the web interface Creating and editing deployment schemes. 197 extension ..............307 Creating media for deployment for VMWare . 202 Replicating one time in command line ....310 Creating an OS deployment USB drive with the Server replication status and logs......310 wizard ..............202 Switching from an ODBC to a JDBC gateway 311 Creating an OS deployment USB drive with Removing an OS deployment server from the command lines ............203 hierarchy ...............312 Creating OS deployment CD and DVD ....204 Deploying VMWare ...........207 Chapter 8. Security .........315 The deployment process.........207 Security roles and access to the Web interface . 315 Deployment requirements ........208 Creating an HTTP authentication domain . 316 iv Tivoli Provisioning Manager for OS Deployment: User's Guide Creating security roles .........316 Run offline custom task on the target ....345 Changing the administrator password .....317 List all deployment schemes .......345 Backups of server files ..........317 Available built-in actions to compose a custom task Importing and exporting RAD files .....317 template ...............346 Importing and exporting targets lists ....319 BootOnWinPE ............346 Exporting and loading configurations ....321 BootOnLDE .............346