The Solaris system and the Jump Start boot server should be on the same subnet.
To boot the protected server using the Jump Start boot server, it is required that the Jump Start server is configured and the protected Solaris server is added as a client to the Jump Start boot server.
The protected Solaris agent can be added to the Jump Start boot server by running the following command on the Jump Start server boot server:
add_install_client –e <Ether address> -s sunv240:/<location of boot server> <hardware class> <hostname>
In the command above,
Ether address – This is the ethernet (MAC) address of the protected Solaris system. This information can be obtained by running ifconfig –a on the protected Solaris server.
Location of boot server – This is the location of the top level directory on the Jump Start server where the boot server is installed and configured.
Hardware Class – This is the hardware class of the protected Solaris server and can be obtained by running uname –m on the protected Solaris server.
Hostname – This is the hostname of the protected Solaris server and can be obtained by running the hostname command.
Example:
add_install_client –e 0:3:ba:f4:7e:15 –s sunv240:/boot_server sun4u SunT5220
Setup:
On the protected Solaris server:
1 Run the mkbmcd utility on the client which is found in <INSTALLDIR>/bin/mkbmcd, where <INSTALLDIR> is /usr/bp by default. Initiate the creation utility by entering the following at the command prompt:
/usr/bp/bin/mkbmcd
2 When prompted, indicate n when asked if you want to use USB Bare Metal Recovery.
3 When prompted, enter the information (name and IP) of the protected client and the information (name and IP address) of the backup system.
The setup process piggybacks on the process to create an ISO, as described in the section above. When prompted, provide the path to the storage area to save the resulting ISO.
A sparc.miniroot file needs to be installed / copied to the Jump Start server in order to perform a network boot operation. Perform the following steps to copy the space.miniroot file to Jump Start server.
1 Create a loopback device with the iso created as mentioned above:
lofiadm -a <full-path-to-BM.iso>
2 Mount the bare metal iso:
mount -F hsfs <looback block device> <mount point>
3 After mounting the iso the sparc.miniroot can be copied to the boot server by doing the following:
scp <mount point> /boot/sparc.miniroot <user>@<bootServer>:<path-to-boot-server-directory>/boot/sparc.miniroot.<hostname>
Example:
scp /tmp/sparc.miniroot.SunT5220 root@BootServer:/boot_server/boot/sparc.miniroot.SunT5220