 | Level: Intermediate Sam Boucot (boucot@verizon.net), Developer and writer, Freelance writer
22 May 2007 Any time you have employees, overhead costs are going to be substantial, especially when it comes to new hires. Of the many things new employees need, setting up their computer and its operating
system, and installing and configuring appropriate applications is
one of the most time-consuming. Tivoli® Provisioning Manager for Operating System Deployment greatly reduces this overhead by allowing you to create and manage deployable images and any associated software packages efficiently
through a Web interface. This tutorial shows you how to use Tivoli Provisioning Manager for OS Deployment to create installation
images and manage packages for an actual deployment of RedHat Enterprise Linux®.
In this tutorial
- What Tivoli Provisioning Manager for OS Deployment is
- How to install Tivoli Provisioning Manager for OS Deployment on Windows
- What capabilities the Tivoli Provisioning Manager for OS Deployment Web Console gives you
- How to create an unattended installation profile for deploying RHEL
- How to deploy RHEL from an unattended installation profile
- How cloning an existing system works, and the implications thereof
Prerequisites
None
System requirements
To complete the steps in this tutorial, you will need to have access to the following:
- Tivoli Provisioning Manager for Operating System Deployment: You can
download a free trial version of Tivoli Provisioning Manager for OS Deployment.
- The server machine: This is the machine on which Tivoli Provisioning Manager for OS Deployment runs. This tutorial was written and tested using a system in which the server machine runs Windows 2003.
- A DHCP server: This can be a separate server, or can be running on the main Tivoli Provisioning Manager for OS Deployment server.
- Image server: Tivoli Provisioning Manager for OS Deployment creates disk images that must be stored somewhere. Again, this can be on
the main server. In any case, the image server must have a minimum capacity of 10 GB.
- The target machine: This machine must be compatible with RHEL4, and must have at least 8 GB of disk space.
To view the demos included in this tutorial, JavaScript must be enabled in your browser and Macromedia Flash Player 6 or higher must be installed. You can download the latest Flash Player at http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer/.
Duration
1 hour
Formats html, pdf
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