Sample Plan for LPAR with two disks

BigFix for Server Automation provides a sample Automation Plan for building a functioning PowerVM® logical partition (LPAR) and adding hard disks. Using this Automation Plan, you can provision an LPAR on a PowerVM® Managed System, install an operating system image, netboot the LPAR, deploy a BigFix agent, and add a second hard disk to the LPAR.

Procedure

  1. Open the Server Automation domain.
  2. From the Domain Panel, select Automation Plans.
  3. In the Automation Plans dashboard, enter 146 in the filter text box and press the Enter key.
  4. From the Automation Plans list, select the Build AIX LPAR with 2 disks Sample Automation Plan.
  5. Click Copy to copy the Automation Plan and then save the copy that you have just created.
  6. To run the Automation Plan, click Take Action. The following table shows each step of the Plan and provides links to more information about each step.
    Table 1. Steps in Sample Plan
    Step Task ID Name More Information
    1 1018 PowerVM® Create a Logical Partition (LPAR) Creating a Logical Partition (LPAR)
    2 3020 AIX® NIM Create a NIM client for a Logical Partition (LPAR) on a NIM Master Server Creating a NIM client for an LPAR on a NIM server
    3 1019 PowerVM® Netboot a Logical Partition (LPAR) Netbooting a logical partition
    4 3052 Pause automation plan flow (Optional) Pauses the automation flow for the time period provided in minutes.
    Note: This step is required because after completing the Netbooting in the previous step, the AIX® installation for AIX® LPAR and machine setup will continue running in the background and will not be immediately available for use by the subsequent step. So, automation plan flow is required to be paused for some time until AIX® LPAR becomes available with the Console login prompt. The user (AIX® Admin) needs to check for the approximate pause time required here and provide it in minutes.
    5 3021 AIX® NIM Client configuration after LPAR Netboot Configuring a NIM client after LPAR Netboot
  7. Click OK to run the Plan.

Results

The Automation Plan runs.

What to do next

  1. For deploying BigFix Agent on AIX® LPAR machine, user needs to use Client Deployment Tool and its agent installation Fixlet 2401- Deploy BigFix Clients using the BigFix Client Deploy Tool. Currently, this Fixlet can not be used in the automation plan steps. This needs to be run manually outside the automation plan as a Fixlet to take action on it. For more information, refer to Client Deploy Tool Fixlet.
  2. For Adding a disk to an LPAR, another automation plan is required with Fixlet 1026 - PowerVM Add disk to a Logical Partition (LPAR) and take action on it. For more information, refer to Adding a disk to an LPAR.