Specifications

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4. In the screen shown in Figure 8-13 on page 333, enter the remainder of the
information required for the node.
There are many options in this window, but you do not need to set them all to
set up the installation. Most importantly, set the correct gateway for
the machine.
With your machine created in your NIM server, assign it the resources for the
installation. When installing a system from NIM, you need to have additional
resources defined, that is, at least one spot and one lpp_source, or one spot
and one mksysb. These items are defined as follows:
– mksysb: This item is a system image backup that can be recovered on the
same or another machine.
– spot: A spot is what your system uses from the NIM at boot time. It
contains all boot elements for the NIM client machine. Spots can be
created from a mksysb or from installation media.
– lpp_source: An lpp_source is the place where the NIM has the packages
for installation. They can be created from installation media and fix packs.
5. Assign the installation resources to the machine. For this example, we are
doing an RTE installation, so we use spot and lpp_source for the installation.
Run the following command:
smit nim_mac_res
Creating installation resources: The steps for creating the installation
resources are not covered here. Detailed information is in NIM from A
to Z in AIX 5L, SG24-7296.
The smit fast path for creating resources is nim_mkres.