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--- aix:nimol [2021/01/01 21:21]
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manu [nimol_config]
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+====== NIMOL to deploy AIX partitions on Power ======
+NIMOL is a tool which 'll be installed on linux, unlike NIM which is the deployment tool for AIX
+===== Deploy packages =====
 Where to find NIMOL packages ? On AIX base CDROM.
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 XML-LibXML-1.58-1.i386.rpm
-aix-res-6100-07-1.0-1.noarch.rpm
+aix-res-7100-03-1.0-1.noarch.rpm
 libxml2-2.6.17-4.i586.rpm
 nimol-1.0-4.noarch.rpm
 </code>
 <cli prompt='#'>
-[root@nimsrv]/export/soft/nimol/aix61tl7# rpm -qpl aix-res-6100-07-1.0-1.noarch.rpm
+[root@nimsrv]/export/aix73/7300-00-01_full/RPMS/linux# rpm -qpl aix-res-7100-03-1.0-1.noarch.rpm
-/opt/aix-res/6100-07/booti.chrp.mp.ent.Z
+/opt/aix-res/7100-03/booti.chrp.mp.ent.Z
-/opt/aix-res/6100-07/bosinst.data
+/opt/aix-res/7100-03/bosinst.data
-/opt/aix-res/6100-07/ispot.tar.Z
+/opt/aix-res/7100-03/ispot.tar.Z
-[root@nimsrv]/export/soft/nimol/aix61tl7# rpm -qpl nimol-1.0-4.noarch.rpm
+[root@nimsrv]/export/aix73/7300-00-01_full/RPMS/linux# rpm -qpl nimol-1.0-4.noarch.rpm
 /usr/lib/nimol_lib
 /usr/sbin/nimol_backup
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 /usr/share/doc/nimol/README
 /usr/share/locale/Ja_JP/LC_MESSAGES/nimol.mo
-/usr/share/locale/ca_ES/LC_MESSAGES/nimol.mo
+...
-/usr/share/locale/cs_CZ/LC_MESSAGES/nimol.mo
-/usr/share/locale/de_DE/LC_MESSAGES/nimol.mo
-/usr/share/locale/en_US/LC_MESSAGES/nimol.mo
-/usr/share/locale/es_ES/LC_MESSAGES/nimol.mo
-/usr/share/locale/fr_FR/LC_MESSAGES/nimol.mo
-/usr/share/locale/hu_HU/LC_MESSAGES/nimol.mo
-/usr/share/locale/it_IT/LC_MESSAGES/nimol.mo
-/usr/share/locale/ko_KR/LC_MESSAGES/nimol.mo
-/usr/share/locale/pl_PL/LC_MESSAGES/nimol.mo
-/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/nimol.mo
-/usr/share/locale/ru_RU/LC_MESSAGES/nimol.mo
-/usr/share/locale/sk_SK/LC_MESSAGES/nimol.mo
-/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/nimol.mo
-/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/nimol.mo
 /usr/share/man/man1/nimol_backup.1
 /usr/share/man/man1/nimol_config.1
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-http://www.aixmind.com/?p=1162
 http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/aix/library/au-install-aix.html
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 http://dbaspot.com/aix/390557-fyi-aix-6-1-installation-lower-aix-version-using-nim-nimol-nim-linux.html
+===== Install and configure NIMOL =====
+  * Package required by Linux system
+<code>
+  dhcp-server
+  tftp
+  nfs-utils
+</code>
+  * Configure related services
+Before configuring services, please be sure to configure the ip and host name of the network card Ok, check the/etc/hosts file for any mess.
+  - Configure the dhcp server
+  - Enable the tftp server (mabye you should create a symlink: ln -s rpcbind portmap)
+  - rsyslog
+  * Install Nimol
+<code>
+  mount/dev/cdrom/mnt
+  cd /mnt/RPMS/linux
+  rpm -ivh nimol-*.rpm
+  cd /
+  umount /dev/cdrom from the AIX installation disk/RPMS/linux directory
+</code>
+  * Basic configuration of Nimol
+First Manually generate an empty /etc/nimol.conf
+<cli prompt='#'>
+# echo'NIMOL_SYSLOG_FACILITY local2' >>/etc/nimol.conf
+</cli>
+Remember, this line is necessary, otherwise adding the client will fail.
+Define the resource LABEL
+<cli prompt='#'>
+# mkdir /export/nim/lpp_source/7300-00-01
+# nimol_config -L 7300-00-01 -d /dev/cdrom -t /export/nim/lpp_source
+</cli>
+The lpp_source generated above is just a bos. To get a complete installation medium, Modify some files manually
+<cli prompt='#'>
+# cd /export/nim/lpp_source/7300-00-01
+# rm -fr bosinst.data image.data lpp_source
+# mkdir -p lpp_source/installp
+# mount /dev/cdrom/mnt
+# cp /mnt/*.data ./
+# cp -a /mnt/installp/ppc ./lpp_source/installp/
+# cp -a /mnt/RPMS ./lpp_source/
+</cli>
+Define mksysb resource
+If lpp_source has been defined before, then skip the following steps:
+Install AIX CD The aix-res package, take 6108 as an example:
+<cli prompt='#'>
+# mount /dev/cdrom/mnt/cdrom
+# cd /mnt/cdrom
+# rpm -ivh RPMS/linux/aix-res-7300-00-.noarch.rpm
+Then generate a directory/opt/aix-res/6100-08
+# cd /opt/aix-res/7300-00-01
+# ls -al
+-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 23478299 September 14 2012 booti.chrp.mp. ent.Z
+-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 928 September 14 2012 bosinst.data
+-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 119181465 September 14 2012 ispot.tar.Z
+</cli>
+copy the generated mksysb file to this directory, You can also just make a symbolic link. The file name must be mksysb or mksysb.bff.
+Now you can define mksysb resources:
+# nimol_config -L 6108mksysb -d/opt/aix-res/6100-08 -t/export/nim
+The above command will copy the boot image, SPOT, and mksysb files to the/export/nim/6108mksysb directory.
+After testing, the time to install the system using mksysb resources is greatly shortened, about 20 minutes.
+Note: Because the mksysb resource also depends on SPOT, for systems such as AIX 5312/6108/7102, you need to refer to the SPOT script modification method in Part 9.
+  * define the client and related resources
+  create a record of the client in/etc/hosts
+  Configure the client installation resource
+<cli prompt='#'>
+# nimol_install -c dbserv -s 255.255.255.0 -m 00:00:00:00: 00:11 -L 6107
+</cli>
+will prompt trap syntax error, but does not affect the settings.
+The above command -m is followed by the mac address of the client's network card. Please modify it according to the situation.
+  * Note
+The client information generated by nimol is problematic. The network card will load the kernel but wait indefinitely.
+The solution is to modify two files:
+.
+Find the client section in
+  /etc/dhcpd.conf and change the absolute path to relative.
+For example:
+filename "/tftpboot/dbserv";
+change to
+  filename "dbserv";
+./The boot image file under tftpboot The
+default boot image of the client is a symbolic link, which will cause the above file to be modified, but read first block failed, delete the symbolic link, use hard link or copy to boot the image into a client Hostname, for example
+nim:/tftpboot # cd/tftpboot/
+nim:/tftpboot # ls -al
+total 18468
+drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jul 1 10:51.
+drwxr-xr-x 23 root root 4096 Jul 1 10:16 ..
+-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 18874368 Jul 1 09:20 6107.chrp.mp.ent
+lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 Jul 1 10:51 dbserv -> 6107.chrp.mp.ent
+-rw-r--r- -1 root root 1252 Jul 1 09:22 dbserv.info
+nim:/tftpboot # rm -f dbserv
+nim:/tftpboot # ln 6107.chrp.mp.ent dbserv
+. Restart the dhcpd service/
+etc/init.d/dhcpd restart
+  * Start the installation of the AIX system from the client network card.
+  * The method in this article is basically applicable to AIX 5/6, but there will be some errors in the slightly higher version. I have tested AIX 5312/6108/7102, and probably prompt/.SPOT/usr/sys/inst.images is not an invalid installation source.
+After several days of research, I changed a script violently and got it done.
+The script that needs to be modified is <Target_dir>/<Label_Dir>/SPOT/usr/lpp/bosinst/bi_main
+===== man NIMOL =====
+==== nimol_config ====
+Configures a Linux® server to network install a machine with AIX® by configuring services and copying install resources.
+To configure the NIMOL server without copying resources, type:
+  nimol_config -C
+To configure the NIMOL server, copy resources from /mnt/aix to /export/aix, and label the resource aix530, type:
+  nimol_config -d /mnt/aix -t /export/aix -L aix530
+To configure the NIMOL server and copy resources without configuring syslog and without globally exporting the resource label directory, type:
+  nimol_config -S -e
+To list defined resource labels, type:
+  nimol_config -l
+To remove the aix530 resource label, type:
+  nimol_config -L aix530 -r
+==== nimol_install ====
+Sets up a configured NIMOL server to install AIX® to a specific client machine.
+To setup client myclient to install the aix530 resource label with gateway 192.168.1.1, MAC address 00:60:08:3F:E8:DF, and subnet mask 255.255.255.0, type:
+  nimol_install -c myclient -g 192.168.1.1 -m 00:60:08:3F:E8:DF -s 255.255.255.0 -L aix530
+To setup client myclient and not have it remain a client to the NIMOL server after the installation, type:
+  nimol_install -n -c myclient -g 192.168.1.1 -m 00:60:08:3F:E8:DF -s 255.255.255.0 -L aix530
+To list the clients configured to be installed, type:
+  nimol_install -l
+To remove client myclient, type:
+  nimol_config -c myclient -r

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