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MAC-Independent ("On the Fly") Provisioning is used when you want to select what Linux distribution or Windows Operating System from the client system's screen. LinMin provides everything needed to do a full OS installation simply by selecting an item from a dropdown menu. Customers can easily customize what we provide to add applications to be installed with the OS, or to not install specific applications that come with a full installation.
- Start by creating "System Roles". For example, simply select a Red Hat Enterprise Linux "System Role"...
- ... and you're now ready to provision a Red Hat system!
- Select a Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server "System Role"...
- ... and you can provision SLES systems!
- Select a Microsoft 2003 Server "System Role"...
- ... oops: LinMin detected that you forgot to first upload the Microsoft Windows Server OS media, so you see the error messages!
- Select an Ubuntu Linux "System Role"...
- ... and you're now ready to remotely install Ubuntu!
- Select an OpenSUSE 11 "System Role"...
- ... and you're now ready to provision OpenSUSE systems!
- Now list all the "on the fly" provisioning "System Roles" you just created in the past few minutes using your browser...
- Then select a Provisioning Role from the client system's pre-OS screen and watch the OS get installed over the network! Or select a default from the LinMin GUI, and have all systems provisioned with the same OS completely hands free
MAC-Specific ("Fire and Forget") Provisioning is used when you want to precisely control each server, blade, PC or virtual machine. Enter the client system's MAC address, then simply assign it a Provisioning Role Template, unique network settings, host name and so on. Finally, decide when (or when not to) provision each system.
- First, create the Role Templates that you will apply to systems. For example, select a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Role Template from the dropdown list.
- And you're done! You can now assign the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Role Template to any number of systems.
- Or a Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Role Template
- And you're ready to assign SLES roles to systems.
- Same with Microsoft Windows...
- And Ubuntu, and so on...
- See all the Role Templates you created using your browser...
- Now assign Role Templates to individual systems
- A RHEL Zenoss Monitoring system role
- A Fedora Zimbra collaboration system role
- Now assign Role Templates to individual systems
- Finally, from the LinMin Roles Dashboard, you can at a glance see all your systems and what OS they're running and what their network settings are...
MAC-Specific Imaging is used to copy the entire contents of a disk, regardless of operating system, and store the contents on the network. Should the system get corrupted, you can restore the entire system to be exactly as it was when you captured the image. You can also clone systems with the same hardware configuration.
- You can also have entire disk ../Images/Screenshots captured or restored on specific systems...
- And be ready, should a disaster strike, to bring a system to a known-good state...
For Virtualization users, click on the links below to see the provisioning of Virtual Machines whether you call them "VMs", "DomUs", "Virtual Guests", "Virtualized Clients"...
