Sample Plan for Creating an LPAR

IBM® Endpoint Manager for Server Automation provides a sample Automation Plan for building a functioning PowerVM® logical partition. Using this Automation Plan, you can provision a logical partition (LPAR) on a PowerVM Managed System, install an operating system on the LPAR, netboot the LPAR, and deploy an IBM Endpoint Manager agent to the LPAR.

Procedure

  1. Open the Server Automation domain.
  2. From Domain Panel, select Automation Plans.
  3. In the Automation Plans dashboard, enter 145 in the filter text box and press the Enter key.
  4. From the Automation Plans list select the Build AIX LPAR 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 PowerVM 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 1581 Deploy Endpoint Manager Agent https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/wikis/home?lang=en#!/wiki/Tivoli%20Endpoint%20Manager/page/Windows%20Agent%20Deployment%20Tasks%20%28Console%29
  7. Click OK to run the Plan.

Results

The Automation Plan runs.