Installing the AI Installation Tools

Create and maintain install services.
Set up and update a DHCP server.
Add custom client installation and configuration instructions.
Set criteria for clients to use custom installation and configuration instructions.

See Maintaining an Install Server and the installadm(1M) man page for more information about the installadm command.

To install the tools package, your AI install server must be able to access an Oracle Solaris Image Packaging System (IPS) software package repository. Make sure you are connected to the Internet or to a local IPS package server that contains the install/installadm package.

Use the pkg list command to determine whether the installadm package is already installed on this system.

$ pkg list installadm
pkg list: no packages matching 'installadm' installed

Use the -a option to show whether your IPS package repository contains a version of the installadm package that you can install in this image.

$ pkg list -a installadm
NAME (PUBLISHER)                                       VERSION                IFO
install/installadm                                     0.5.11-0.175.1.0.0.24.0 ---

If more than one publisher is defined for this image, use the -v option to show which publisher provides the installadm package. The following example shows that solaris is the publisher of this package:

$ pkg list -av installadm
FMRI                                                                          IFO
pkg://solaris/install/installadm@0.5.11,5.11-0.175.1.0.0.24.0:20120815T024057Z ---

Use the pkg publisher command to show the origin for the publisher. In this example, a local copy of the solaris repository has been made.

$ pkg publisher
PUBLISHER               TYPE    STATUS  P LOCATION
solaris                 origin  online  F file:///export/repoSolaris11/
isv.com  (non-sticky)   origin  online  F http://pkg.isv.com/

Use the pkg install command to install the installadm package.

$ pfexec pkg install install/installadm
           Packages to install:  1
       Create boot environment: No
Create backup boot environment: No
            Services to change:  2

DOWNLOAD                       PKGS       FILES    XFER (MB)   SPEED
Completed                       1/1       72/72      0.3/0.3    0B/s

PHASE                                          ITEMS
Installing new actions                       138/138
Updating package state database                 Done
Updating image state                            Done
Creating fast lookup database                   Done
Reading search index                            Done
Updating search index                            1/1

$ pkg info installadm
          Name: install/installadm
       Summary: installadm utility
   Description: Automatic Installation Server Setup Tools
      Category: System/Administration and Configuration
         State: Installed
     Publisher: solaris
       Version: 0.5.11
 Build Release: 5.11
        Branch: 0.175.1.0.0.24.0
Packaging Date: Mon Aug 15 02:40:57 2012
          Size: 1.21 MB
          FMRI: pkg://solaris/install/installadm@0.5.11,5.11-0.175.1.0.0.24.0:20120815T024057Z

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