Customizing NIM clients and SPOT resources by using SMIT

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Follow this procedure for customizing NIM clients and SPOT resources using SMIT.

The SMIT screens follow the same structure as those used for local installation operations performed on a system. When performing NIM customization operations, select the SMIT screen that most closely describes the installation you want to perform.

  1. From the command line, enter the smit nim_task_inst fast path.
  2. Select the SMIT menu item that matches the type of installation you want to perform.
  3. Select a TARGET for the operation.
  4. Select the lpp_source that contains the installation images to be used.
  5. Select any other required resources.
  6. In the final SMIT dialog, supply the values for the required fields or accept the defaults. Use the help information and the LIST option to help you specify the correct values.
Note: If you select the Invoke live update? option, the AIX® Live Update operation is run against the TARGET client. The TARGET client must be a Network Installation Manager (NIM) standalone system. If the LIVE_UPDATE_DATA option is selected with a live_update_data NIM resource, you can NFS-export the resource to the client and the resource is used for Live Update. If a live_update_data resource is not specified for the LIVE_UPDATE_DATA field, the file at the /var/adm/ras/liveupdate/lvupdate.data location on the client is used instead for the Live Update operation.