Installation guide

54 NovaScale Master 5.2-x Server Add-ons - Installation and Administrator's Guide
Besides the characteristics (name and description) of the main object, the properties of a
VIOS virtual platform are divided into three parts:
• Virtual I/O Server: used to define the physical machine and the native OS.
• SSH authentication: used to define properties related to SSH authentication.
• Logical partitions: used to describe the VIOS Virtualization platform logical partitions.
Virtual I/O Server Properties
name Server host short name.
This name is displayed in the NovaScale Master Console views.
Click Select to choose a defined host from the NSMaster host list.
model Host model. Allowed values are EL Blade and other.
Default value: other
network name Server network name (hostname or IP address).
SSH authentication Properties
user Remote user to login
Default value: padmin
identity file identifier of the file from which the identity (private key) for RSA or
DSA authentication is read, used to perform non-prompted remote
connection via ssh
The filename used is built with this identifier, suffixed according to the
user performing the ssh. For Nagios, the file will be id_dsa.nsm (used
in service definition, for instance).
All the files must be localized into the directory
<NSMaster Installation Directory>/engine/etc/ssh
Note:
This value cannot be changed. Identity files are generated at
NSMaster installation, with specific rights. Refer to NovaScale
Administrator's Guide to get detailed information.
To use it as authentication file for VIOS platform, you have to install
the corresponding public key (id_dsa.pub) on the VIO server. Refer to
the IBM documentation to know how to install the DSA key.
Logical Partitions Properties
List of the partitions established by selecting the partitions obtained by
remote command on VIO server.
The request is performed by clicking the Discover button (or-Re-
discover if you are in edition mode).
See below the complete description of the procedure.
Logical Partitions Discovery
The result of the discovery is displayed as a table composed of three parts:
• the left column allows you to select the partitions to be associated to the platform