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1. Browsing documentation You can use the Browse Additional Linux on POWER Documentation function to read additional Linux on Power Systems Servers documentation that is shipped with IBMIT Prerequisites Before starting you must have one of the following e Linux on Power Systems Servers documentation package installed or e An IBMIT DVD or ISO image to directly access the documentation You can install the Linux on Power Systems Servers documentation package with the tool Installing IBM packages on the system on page 46 lif you are in the installed system If you are in the live system the documentation must be accessed directly from the IBMIT media To access documentation select Help from the Welcome Center menu Then select Browse Additional Linux on POWER Documentation Chapter 6 Actions available on both systems 131 IBM Installation Toolkit for Linux on POWER _ Register at IBM Web Site po Browse Additional Linux on POWER Documentation lt Previous Figure 116 Welcome Center menu Help If the Linux on Power Systems Servers documentation package is not installed in the system the following screen will be displayed You can click Load from CD or Load from ISO image to load and access the documentation directly from an IBMIT media 132 Linux IBM Installation Toolkit User Manual IBM Installation Toolkit for Linux on POWER You cannot proceed 1 BRLDSOOOLE Could not find search database In order to
2. Edit my profile Help Log out Total system memory 8 GB Total processing units 4 Memory available 32 MB Processing units available 0 Reserved firmware memory 480 MB Processor pool utilization 0 13 3 2 System attention LED Active fi Partition Details G x Create Partition Activate Shutdown More Tasks il Select iD a Name State Uptime Memory Processors Entitled Utilized Reference Processing Unts Processing Code Running O 1 kow vos Bas 512MB 4 04 0 03 Attention A ry 2 kow testl Running es 1GB 1 04 0 02 Linux ppc54 a kow test2 Not Activated 168 E o4 20000000 a 4 kow test3 Running sat 1GB 2 0 6 0 03 Linux ppc64 O 5 kowtest4 Running S15 lex 2 06 0 01 SuSE Linux Days O 6 kow tess Open aa ce le 06 001 AAQOE158 Firmware Days 7 kow test6 Running se 168 a 0 4 0 02 Linux ppo64 8 kow mtk OPEN En nc 2 06 0 01 AA00E158 Firmware Days Figure 131 IVM main screen 3 On the tabs bar of the screen that appears click Optical Tape to see the table of ISO images available to be assigned Click Add Media to add the ISO image to be assigned Appendixes 197 Integrated Virtualization Manager Welcome padmin kow_vios a Edit my profile Help Log Partition Management View Modify Virtual Storage View Modify Partitions s View Modi stem Virtual Disks Properties IO Adapter Management Physical Optical Devices V
3. Note This tool is not intended to be a replacement for the IVM HMC firmware update tools It is instead intended to be used as a recovery utility in cases where IVM HMC is not working but you are still able to boot the machine with IBMIT If you have IVM HMC properly working you should use it to update the firmware 32 Linux IBM Installation Toolkit User Manual Prerequisites Before starting you must have the firmware image file you want to be installed The firmware update process consists of the following steps 1 2 3 Install a new firmware image in the temporary side Try to boot the machine using this firmware version and check if everything is working properly If it worked well commit the firmware image from the temporary side to the permanent side Otherwise reject it Starting the tool To start the tool follow these steps 1 Select Firmware Update from the Live system Utilities menu IBM Installation Toolkit for Linux on POWER Welcome Center Utilities Firmware Update Bj USB Image Creator M Network Config Eject Media Reboot Machine lt Previous Figure 21 Live system utilities menu 2 Check the machine architecture the firmware level in the temporary side and on the permanent side Also check whether the firmware currently in use is from the temporary or permanent side Then decide if you want to update a new firmware image in the tempo
4. 188 Linux IBM Installation Toolkit User Manual BRLWHO0002E BRLWHOO02E Empty referer Could not process its data The data from the request could not be processed because it does not contain a valid referer BRLWHO0003E BRLWHOOO3E Wizard s s have template error s The webserver encountered an error when setting the page template BRLWU0001 Invalid port number The port number specified is invalid BRLWU0002I SystemExit unrecognized option s The given option was not recognized by the webserver BRLWUO003 Server listening on s d The server is running at the given port BRLWW0016I Help text requested Idx s This is a generic message used for debugging purposes only BRLWW0017I Redirecting to s This is a generic message used for debugging purposes only Chapter 8 Troubleshooting 189 190 Linux IBM Installation Toolkit User Manual Part 2 Appendixes Copyright IBM Corp 2009 2010 191 192 Linux IBM Installation Toolkit User Manual Appendixes Tips on using IBMIT text mode user interface You can access the Welcome center using two modes Graphical and Text The text mode uses the installed text mode web browser on the system to access an equivalent interface of the graphical mode Although equivalent the text mode presents slight changes in order to handle all the graphical features in the restricted area of the terminal This section will cover these changes and general instructio
5. IBM Installation Toolkit for Linux on POWER Add export path Client parameters 1 select the network protocol Protocol http gt used to export the path 2 type the path to be exported and 3 Path the URL path used to reach it ex URL path 7 if the path is exported at http localhost myserver repo then type myserver repo Cancel Add Quit cancel Prev next Figure 90 Setup Network Server adding an exported path 4 Click Add to add the export path Remove an exported path You can use the Server management window to remove an export path To remove an exported path follow these steps 1 On the Server Management window click Add to add a new repository 2 Select Remove exported paths 3 Select the path in the list and click Delete IBM Server Consolidation tool The IBM Server Consolidation tool SCT is an application that helps the administrator get through the most time consuming aspect of server consolidation replicating the software stack and migrating application data from one machine to another The software stack that IBM SCT migrates is the commonly known LAMP Stack LAMP stands for Linux Apache HTTP Server MySQL Server PHP or Perl or Python The tool finds the necessary information from a System X server source machine and installs a new POWER server target machine with the same users groups configuration files and data of the source machine Server
6. Next Figure 97 Data to be migrated When you are finished click Next gt gt 10 1 At this point all the necessary information for migrating has been gathered Verify the information in the Summary step before proceeding 112 Linux IBM Installation Toolkit User Manual IBM Installation Toolkit for Linux on POWER Summary Machine migration settings Source 9 3 117 150 Target 9 3 111 185 System migration settings Linux distro SLES 10 Service Pack 3 Users and groups Yes Home directories No Software profiles Database server PostgreSQL Mail server Postfix Data migration settings LAMP stack data No Additional directories tmp Quit Prev Next Check the machine system and data migration settings you chose If you are sure this is what you want click on Next to start the migration process Please note that THIS CANNOT BE UNDONE Figure 98 Summary 11 If you are satisfied click Next in order to start the migration The migration is ready to run You must boot the target machine from the network in order for the installation to run Note You should record the task ID displayed so that you can easily monitor the progress Chapter 5 Actions available on an installed system System tools 113 IBM Installation Toolkit for Linux on POWER Migration is running The migration process has been started and is running in background Its progress can be tracked at
7. Tasks 1 Choose a task in the table name description state duration and click on Cancel in order Lx86 PowerVM Lx86 installation 1 Running 10s to cancel it or 2 click on Details in order to see the its details screen or 3 click on Clear not active tasks in order to remove the no longer active L tasks from the table Quit Cancel Details Clear not active tasks Figure 51 PowerVM Lx86 installation process task monitor Chapter 4 Actions available on an installed system Welcome Center 65 IBM Installation Toolkit for Linux on POWER task Lx86 PowerVM Lx86 installation progress Step 2 of 6 x86 World installation step 1 This is the details screen for the task Lx86 Click on Show ncurses 5 5 24 20060715 i386 rpm all tasks in order to go to the tasks overview screen 20100610 04 02 38 copied Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 5 Update 3 DVD 1 Cancel Quit Show all tasks Figure 52 PowerVM Lx86 installation process task monitor details screen Uninstalling PowerVM Lx86 If you have all components already installed or if you explicitly chose so you will be directed to the PowerVM Lx86 uninstall function Use these instructions to uninstall To uninstall PowerVM Lx86 follow these instructions 1 Follow the instruction in Install or uninstall PowerVM Lx86 on the system on page 54 to provide IBM Installation Toolkit with the PowerVM Lx86 installer 2 Select the components that you
8. The MAC address entered is already in use It probably means the machine you are trying to add is already registered 150 Linux IBM Installation Toolkit User Manual BRLCS0022E Could not read DHCP configuration file Error at line s column s The DHCP configuration has a syntax error at the indicated location and the tool cannot read it Check the file correctness and try again BRLCS0023 No clients registered No clients are currently registered in the tool BRLCS0024E No client selected No client was selected to perform the operation You have to select a client for an action to be performed BRLCS0025E Not able to find DHCP service template The DHCP service template file etc init d dhcpd which probably means the DHCP server is not installed in the system Verify if the DHCP server is properly installed and then run the tool again BRLCSO026E Error when trying to read DHCP configuration file check the log for details System Tools was not able to read the system s DHCP configuration file due to an unexpected error In order to fix this consider creating a new empty file and then run the tool again BRLCS0027E Invalid headers entered The configuration headers entered are in an invalid format Check the syntax and try again BRLCS0028E Invalid headers entered error at line s column s The configuration header entered at the specified location are in an invalid format Check the syntax and try again BRLCS0029 I
9. To install PowerVM Lx86 and x86 World follow these instructions 1 Follow the instruction in Install or uninstall PowerVM Lx86 on the system on page 54 to provide IBM Installation Toolkit with the PowerVM Lx86 installer 2 Choose the Linux distribution installation directory and a temporary directory for the RPM files The default setting is to use the home directory of the POWER installed system as the x86World home directory e Installation directory Directory where the translator will be installed e Log files directory Directory where the translator will place its log files e Linux distribution Linux distro to be installed in x86 World Note that only x86 Linux distros whose version is minor or equal than the Linux on Power Systems Servers distro you are running are available For example for a POWER system running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Update 2 the x86 Linux distro can be one of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 GA Update 1 or Update 2 but not Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Update 3 Consult the PowerVM Lx86 manual for more details e Installation directory Directory where the x86 World Linux distro will be installed e Home directory Home directory to be used in the x86 World Linux distro The default is to use the same home directory as the Linux on Power Systems Servers distro you are running Leave it blank if you want to have a home directory created inside the x86 World Chapter 4 Actions available on an installe
10. You can edit a client from the Manage client systems window To edit a client follow these steps 1 On the Client Systems Management window select the client that you want to edit and click Edit 2 Modify the client parameters that you want to change e Hostname The client machine host name an identifier used to create this machine entry into the dhcpd conf file Note that this name is an arbitrary name and not an Internet hostname such as somename ibm com e Subnet Select the subnet of the new client To manage the available subnets select Manage subnets Refer to Managing subnets for details e IP address The IP address that is assigned to the MAC hardware address of this machine This address is fixed and will be assigned to this machine every time it connects to the local network e MAC address The client machine MAC address of the network device being used to boot through network e Comments Additional comments used to identify this client machine This field is optional 3 When you are finished click OK 86 Linux IBM Installation Toolkit User Manual Note that if you do not click Apply changes the changes will not take effect See page 91 Deleting a client You can delete a client from the Manage client systems window To delete a client follow these steps 1 On the Client Systems Management window select the client that you want to delete 2 Select Delete Note that if you do not click Apply changes
11. 120 Linux IBM Installation Toolkit User Manual LPAR Creator LPAR disk settings Storage requirements Needed space 11414 MB Storage resources Use the existing storage pool rootvg 24064 MB Quit Prev Next 1 check the needed space for the source system to be recreated in the new LPAR 2 select a storage resource to be used to create the new LPAR Figure 106 LPAR Disk Configuration Click Next to proceed 6 The LPAR creator wizard displays information about the new LPAR and may display some warnings if your management system cannot provide the same amount of resources as the source being migrated The first figure displays an LPAR Memory warning Chapter 5 Actions available on an installed system System tools 121 LPAR Creator Not enough memory The chosen managed system has less memory available than the total memory present in the source system You can proceed anyway but be aware that Click Next if you are aware of the things may not work properly in this scenario issue and wish to go on Quit Prev Next Figure 107 LPAR Memory warning If you agree with the warning message displayed click Next The second figure displays a processor warning 122 Linux IBM Installation Toolkit User Manual LPAR Creator Not enough processing units The chosen management system has less processing units available than the Click Next if you are aware of the
12. Verify if your file etc redhat release on Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems or etc SuSE release on SLES systems is in the correct format BRLAUOOOSE The package pam devel is not installed Install it to perform authentication Depending on the Linux distribution the IBMIT needs the package pam devel installed on the system to work properly Install the package pam devel provided by the distro in order to fix this problem For Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems make sure to install the ppc version of the package Copyright IBM Corp 2009 2010 147 BRLBE0001W Unknown unit s The memory detector failed because an unrecognized memory size unit was found in proc meminfo BRLBE0003W You need a system with a working sys The disk detector failed because a sys file system does not exist BRLBE0004W No manual partitions provided The installer could not find the manual partitioning scheme to be used The installation process cannot continue BRLBEOOOSW Cannot add files to a frozen s The documentation search database is locked and can no longer have documents added to it BRLBEOOO6W No levels specified for the Search System The number of indexing levels for the documentation search database has not been specified Specify it BRLBE0007W No file specified for the Search System s index No documents have been specified to be added to the documentation search database Specify at last one BRLBEOOOSI Indexing s The doc
13. crawford ashley fedora ashley ecm shield ppack test 2 rico vio ricolp1 ricolp2 legend kow ppack test1 kow ppack test2 kow ppack test3 kow ppack test5 Add Edit Delete Quit Manage subnets IP Address 9 8 234 163 9 8 234 152 9 8 234 192 9 8 234 193 9 8 234 219 9 8 234 167 9 8 234 168 9 8 234 169 9 8 234 174 9 8 234 160 9 8 234 161 9 8 234 162 9 8 234 164 Client systems management MAC Address ae b3 c1 fa da 04 00 1A 64 45 4A 21 0a 11 bf 9c a0 04 0a 11 ba 81 29 04 62 12 80 00 90 04 00 0D 60 4D EB 6A 12 29 80 00 30 02 12 29 80 00 20 02 00 11 25 C0 3A 6D ae b3 c0 00 20 04 ae b3 c0 00 30 04 ae b3 c4 fd 49 04 ae b3 c4 96 89 04 Subnet 9 8 234 128 9 8 234 128 9 8 234 128 9 8 234 128 9 8 234 128 9 8 234 128 9 8 234 128 9 8 234 128 9 8 234 128 9 8 234 128 9 8 234 128 9 8 234 128 9 8 234 128 Comments IBM Installation Toolkit for Linux on POWER 1 To add new clients click the Add button 2 To edit a client click Edit 3 To remove a client click Delete 4 If you want to manage the subnets click Manage subnets 5 When done click the Apply changes button _ to save the changes Figure 71 Manage Clients System main screen Adding a client You can add a client from the Manage client systems window To add a client follow these steps 1 On the Client Systems Management window select Add 2 Enter the following client parameters Hostname The client machin
14. filename ppc img1 hardware ethernet lt macaddress gt fixed address lt ipaddress gt 3 Restart the DHCP server for the configuration to take effect lt initscript gt restart Manually creating a network installation repository This topic explains how to manually create a Linux or IBMIT network installation repository It can then be used to perform Linux installations from the network rather than from CD DVD ROM or USB key 208 Linux IBM Installation Toolkit User Manual A network installation repository is just a directory made accessible to the network through an HTTP FTP or NFS server That directory must contain all the files required to perform an installation A trivial way to achieve that is to copy all the files of a distro DVD to that directory In order to be accessible that directory must be placed somewhere the server makes accessible to the network After the repository is created it will be accessible at an URL that will depend on the configuration of your server For example http 192 168 1 54 myrepo Prerequisites Before starting this task you must have the following items e DVD ISO image for the distro you want to create a repository e HTTP FTP or NFS server installed and working so that the created repository can be accessed through it Note For these instructions the following conventions apply e lt isofile gt is the DVD ISO image file for the distro or IBMIT e lt mountdir gt
15. or 2 click on Details in order to see the its details screen or 3 click on Clear not active tasks in order to remove the no longer active tasks from the table Quit Cancel Details Clear not active tasks Figure 55 PowerVM Lx86 uninstall process task monitor window Manage repositories used by the system You can use this tool to manage repositories used by the system This tool configures the software installation repositories used by the system Those repositories are used to install software on the system For more information about using the tool that creates Linux installation repositories on a network installation server refer to Manage Linux installation repositories available on the server on page 95 To start the tool select Repositories Management from the Utilities menu Chapter 4 Actions available on an installed system Welcome Center 69 IBM Installation Toolkit for Linux on POWER Welcome Center Utilities Repositories Management BJ USB Image Creator Eject Media i Reboot Machine M Exit Browser lt Previous Figure 56 Welcome Center menu Utilities The main screen shows a list with the repositories currently configured For each repository in the list there are three columns e Name Displays the repository name e Resource Displays a URL with the repository location e State Indicates whether the repository is currently active or inactive An inacti
16. requests made by that client it does so by sending to the client a file name This file name is the boot image file the client must download The client receives that file name and downloads it from the TFTP server located at the boot server machine Finally the client loads the boot image in memory runs it and the boot process starts During the process the client downloads other boot images from the TFTP server as needed Note For these instructions the following conventions apply e lt tftpdir gt is the TFTP server chroot directory usually tftpboot e lt dhcpfile gt is the DHCP server configuration file usually etc dhcpd conf e lt machinename gt is an arbitrary name to identify the client machine in lt dhcpfile gt e lt macaddress gt is the MAC address of the client machine The letters must be in lower case and components separated by hyphen For example ae b3 c0 00 20 04 e lt ipaddress gt is the IP address to be assigned to the client machine e lt initscript gt is the script that starts the DHCP server usually etc init d dhcpd To configure the IBMIT boot server to have a client machine booting from it follow these steps 1 Set the boot loader configuration file for the client machine In sf etc yaboot conf lt tftpdir gt yaboot conf lt macaddress gt 2 Configure the DHCP server to answer boot requests made by the client machine by adding the following entry to lt dhcpfile gt host lt machinename gt
17. the changes will not take effect See page 91 Adding a subnet You can add a subnet from the Manage subnets window To add a subnet follow these steps 1 Open the Subnets management menu by selecting Manage subnets from the main Client Systems Management menu You can also select Manage subnets when adding a new client or editing an existing client IBM Installation Toolkit for Linux on POWER Subnets management Registered subnets 1 click Add in order to adda ___ IP Address Netmask Clients registered available new subnet 2 choose an 9 8 234 128 255 255 255 128 26 32 existing subnet and click Edit to modify or Delete to remove it 3 click Edit DHCP headers to control the headers of the DHCP config file and finally 4 click Done when you are done managing your subnets Add Edit Delete Quit Edit DHCP headers Done Figure 73 Subnet management window 2 Select Add 3 Enter the following subnet parameters e Subnet address Enter the IP address of the subnet Chapter 5 Actions available on an installed system System tools 87 e Network mask Enter the netmask for the subnet e Gateway Optionally enter the IP address for the gateway of the subnet e DNS server 1 Optionally enter the address of the primary DNS server to be used e DNS server 2 Optionally enter the address of the secondary DNS server to be used IBM Installation Toolkit for Linux on POWER Add s
18. www14 software ibm com webapp set2 sas f lopdiags installtools home html Prerequisites Before starting the installation you must have the following items 1 CD DVD disks or a network installation repository for the Linux distro to be installed 2 DVD disk USB key or a network installation repository for IBMIT You can create network installation repositories for both the distro and IBMIT with the tool Manage Linux installation repositories available on the server on page 95 You can create an IBMIT USB key with the function Create an IBM Installation Toolkit bootable USB key on page 127 To install Linux on your machine follow these steps Chapter 3 Actions available on a live system 15 1 Select Install Linux from the Live system main menu IBM installation Toolkit for Linux on POWER Welcome Center Install Linux Utilities Figure 4 Live system main menu 2 Choose the installation settings e Linux distribution Choose one of the supported Linux distributions to be installed e Installation Profile Choose the set of packages to be installed Click More info to see details about each of them The available profiles are Minimal Installs the smallest set of packages that allows the system to boot and to perform basic tasks The disk usage is kept to a minimum You can choose to install additional packages in the future using the standard method provided by each Linux distrib
19. Adding a repository If you want to add an existing repository or a new custom repository follow these steps 1 After clicking Add in the main screen the IBMIT looks for external repositories in the Internet If you do not want to wait for this to load click Skip and move directly to the New custom repository registration screen Chapter 4 Actions available on an installed system Welcome Center 71 IBM Installation Toolkit for Linux on POWER New repository registration 1 Choose the repositories you want to add from the list and click Add 2 If you want to enter your own repository click Add custom Downloading external repositories list out sti ssa Figure 58 Repositories Management looking for external repositories 2 If you did not skip the previous step a list with the external repositories available will be shown To add any of those repositories select it and click Add To add a custom repository click Add custom 72 Linux IBM Installation Toolkit User Manual IBM Installation Toolkit for Linux on POWER New repository registration External repositories available 1 Choose the repositories you Name Resource want to add from the list and click C Advance Toolchain ftp linuxpatch ncsa uiuc edu toolchain at at05 redhat RHEL5 Add 2 If you want to enter your own repository click Add custom Quit Cancel Add custom Add Figure 59 New repository registration 3 If you chose to a
20. BRLHDOOOSI Net Device s s Your machine has network devices and they have been detected as s BRLHS0001E Unknown Content Type s The HTTP server has received a bad request data was sent in a unrecognized format BRLHS0002E 501 Can only POST to CGI scripts The HTTP server has received a POST request to get a static file POST requests should only be made to invoke plugins BRLHSO004E 503 Script failed The HTTP server detected that the execution of some script within IBM Installation Toolkit failed Report this problem in the IBM Installation Toolkit Support Forum http www 128 ibm com developerworks forums dw_forum jsp forum 937 amp cat 72 for the development team to fix the problem BRLHSOOOS5E Exception while executing s s s The HTTP server detected that an error happened inside a plugin and was not properly handled by it Chapter 8 Troubleshooting 157 BRLHSOOOGE Tried to access data outside root s s The HTTP server detected an attempt to access a file in a not allowed directory BRLHSO007E No default specified for URL s The HTTP server received a request for which no handler exists and a default handler has not been found to treat it BRLHSOO0O8I Server interrupted by keyboard quit The HTTP server has terminated because the user pressed CTRL C BRLHS0010I Starting watcher thread for Taskrunner s The HTTP server has started a watcher thread to look for a taskrunner instance BRLHS001
21. Consolidation tool environment The IBM SCT works in a special environment provided by the System tools In order to understand how SCT works you should know what the elements are in the solution 104 Linux IBM Installation Toolkit User Manual The Server Consolidation tool includes three important elements e Source machine The x86 32 bits or 64 bits machine that will be migrated The SCT can migrate only x86 Linux machines with or without Apache MySQL PHP Perl and Python applications Target machine The new server machine System p or System if that will be installed using the IBM Installation Toolkit for Linux and receive all the data and configuration files from the source machine e Network Server machine The net boot server machine running the IBM Installation Toolkit System tools This machine will orchestrate all the migration steps between the source machine and the target machine To perform a migration you must connect remotely using a web browser to the Network Server machine using the same System tools port This machine retrieves the information from the source target creates a source profile with them and uses it to replicate the LAMP Stack After that it performs a network installation of Linux customizes the LAMP Stack and copies data files from the source to the target machine The source and target machines must have network connectivity to migrate data such as files in home HTML CGI scripts MySQL da
22. Debug s This is a generic message used for debugging purposes only BRLCS0030W DHCP configuration file not found System Tools was not able to find the system s DHCP configuration file If you proceed the tool will create a new file at the standard location etc dhcpd conf BRLCS0031E Could not apply changes error performing backup of original System Tools file check the log for details An unexpected error occurred when the tool tried to make a backup copy of the System Tools configuration file Check the filesystem permissions and try again BRLCS0033W Configuration has been changed when you are done remember to click Apply changes to save your changes This warning is a reminder so that you don t forget to click the Apply changes button to save your changes before leaving the tool If you quit the tool before clicking the button all changes are lost Chapter 8 Troubleshooting 151 BRLCSO034E Unable to remove yaboot conf file for the following clients s The tool could not remove the yaboot files that became unused for the hosts listed Try to remove them manually BRLCSO035E Unable to create yaboot conf file for the following clients s The tool could not create the yaboot files for the hosts listed Try to create them manually BRLCS0036E No subnet selected A subnet must be selected in order to proceed BRLCS0037E Subnet entry not found The subnet entry was not found by the tool This may indicate an inter
23. ISO file name 158 Linux IBM Installation Toolkit User Manual BRLIW0013W You should not try install a new system within your real system The IBM Installation Toolkit must be used to reinstall a Linux system Trying to install a Linux system above an already existing installation would destroy all of the current data You cannot proceed with this option BRLIW0017E No IP address specified The IP address field was left blank You must specify an IP address for the network card being configured BRLIW0022E License terms must be accepted in order to proceed In order to enter Welcome Center you must accept the license terms If you do not agree with the terms of the licenses reject the license Note that rejecting the license will make it impossible to use Welcome Center BRLIWOO30E No netmask specified The netmask field was left blank You must specify a network mask for the network card being configured BRLIW0032E Invalid netmask The netmask entered is invalid You must specify a valid network mask for the network card being configured BRLIW0033E Invalid gateway The gateway entered is invalid You must specify a valid gateway for the network card being configured BRLIW0034E Invalid IP address The IP address entered is invalid You must specify a valid IP address for the network card being configured BRLIW0043E Fingerprint check failed on Packages Server The Welcome Center could not check the fingerprint on th
24. If the firmware was unsuccessful in the temporary side you can reject it 1 Select Reject the firmware in the temporary side from the Firmware window 2 You are warned that this operation cannot be undone To proceed click Yes I am sure REJECT FIRMWARE IN THE TEMPORARY SIDE Chapter 3 Actions available on a live system 37 IBM Installation Toolkit for Linux on POWER Summary System information 1 Review the action selected Machine architecture POWER6BLADE and click Next to apply it Temporary firmware level EA340 095 Permanent firmware level EA350 038 Current firmware level EA340 095 from temporary Action details Action Reject the firmware in the temporary side WARNING The system WILL be rebooted Wait until the flash process has completed This can be anywhere from 2 minutes to 20 minutes or more depending on the system The op panel display will show that the system is flashing Failure to wait may render a system inoperable Yes am sure REJECT FIRMWARE IN TEMPORARY SIDE Figure 26 Firmware update rejecting a firmware on the temporary side Configuring the network When you select the Configure Network option in the Welcome Center s Utilities window you can set up your network configuration either automatically through DHCP or manually It configures the network for the live DVD session environment not for the target system s environment This option is unavailable on the installe
25. Manual BRLMTO00541 Creating RPC connection s s Status message Creating RPC connection to the client consolidation application BRLMTOO56E ERROR Could not create the Fast Start file Please accept the license before You must accept the IBM Installation Toolkit license before being able to create a Fast Start file BRLMTOO58E You need to migrate users and groups if you want to migrate home directories In order to be able to migrate the home directories from the Source machine to the Target machine you must also perform the migration the users and groups BRLMTOO59E ERROR Could not create the MySQL dump in client machine Could not dump the MySQL databases in the Source machine Make sure you used the correct password and that your MySQL server is running in the client machine BRLMT0061E MySQL ERROR s s Error accessing the MySQL server in the Source machine Check the error message for more details BRLMT0062E Not able to pickle profile Could not serialize the given object to transfer via RPC BRLMT0064W Can t translate from Null source Couldn t find a valid Source profile for translation Check the log files for more information BRLMTOO65W Can t translate to Null target Couldn t translate the Source profile to a Null target machine Some problem happened while defining the target machine BRLMTOO66W Error trying to run s translate An Error happened while translating the Source profile to the target m
26. Tool could not retrieve the MAC address of the LPAR network interface when registering it on the DHCP server Check the log at var log wui for details and verify if the HMC IVM system is properly configured BRLMT0123E Can t remove LPAR During the LPAR creation process an error occurred and the Tool failed to issue a command to remove the LPAR Check the log at var log wui for details and verify if the HMC IVM system is properly configured BRLMT0124E The MySQL root password entered is invalid Please try again The MySQL root password supplied to the Tool is invalid A valid password is needed in order to access the MySQL server on the source machine Check the password and try again BRLMT0125E There is a problem with the MySQL installation on the source machine Please check before proceeding The Tool was not able to start the MySQL server on the source machine Verify if the Mysql server is correctly configured and can be started BRLMT0126E Error could not migrate path s code s S Error while migrating additional data from Source to Target machine BRLMT0127E A valid path must be passed The given path is not valid Make sure it exists in the Source machine and can be accessed by the root user BRLMT0128E A valid URL must be passed for distro packages repository The URL provided as distro packages repository is invalid Enter a valid URL to proceed BRLMT0129E A valid URL must be passed for IBM packages reposito
27. _ Register at IBM Web Site Je Browse Additional Linux on POWER Documentation lt Previous Figure 32 Welcome Center menu Help Installing IBM packages on the system This tool installs IBM Packages on a previously installed Linux system Prerequisites Before starting this task you must have the following items e A software installation repository for IBM packages configured unless on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 e An IBMIT DVD ISO image or network installation repository if on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 You can configure software installation repositories with the tool Manage repositories used by the e you can use the package manager of your distro to do it manually You can create Sa DNA e et lation repository saith the tooll Manage ane a availble To install IBM Packages on a previously installed Linux system follow these steps 1 From the Welcome Center select Install Tools 2 Select Install IBM Packages in a Running System from the Install tools menu 46 Linux IBM Installation Toolkit User Manual IBM Installation Toolkit for Linux on POWER Welcome Center Install Tools yf Install IBM Packages in a Running System Manage IBM System p Application Virtual Environment for x86 Linux PowerVM Lx86 Figure 33 Install Tools window 3 If you are running a system other than Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 the first window is displayed with a message warning you that before you use the tool you must make
28. browse and search the documentation you need to The documentation is not installed on this system install it y Quit Load from CD Load from ISO image Figure 117 Browse documentation no documentation installed After the documentation can be accessed the main screen will be displayed You can then browse the file system to find the document you want to read or enter search terms and select Search to find a document Chapter 6 Actions available on both systems 133 IBM Installation Toolkit for Linux on POWER Linux On Power Documentation Search for sh 1 Type some terms and click Search to find documents related to it or 2 Browse through the files and click View Location All documents Browse Document to read the one you g choose Name im En HTML fj PDF Quit View Document Figure 118 Browse documentation main screen Browsing documentation You can browse the directories in the main screen until you find the document that you want Select the document and click View Document to read it Searching documentation Use the Search for text box on the main screen and click Search to find documents related to it When you use search the documents are returned in order of relevance to the typed terms The results are displayed in a screen like the one below Select a document from the list and click View Document to read it or click New Search to go back to the m
29. for SLES10 Servers N See detail runtime Optional librtas All Servers I See details libservicelog All Servers I See details libvpd All Servers I See details Isvpd All Servers I See details amon All Servers I See details amp EE Cae mr All Servers N See details ppc64 diag All Servers I See details servicelog All Servers I See details Ul sre All Servers I See details O Quit Prev Next 1 select a category and click on Apply in order to see only the packages in it 2 check in the list the packages you wish to be installed 3 click on See details to see the description of a given package Figure 37 Installing packages Packages selection 7 Accept the licenses of the packages you selected If you do not accept the licenses the installation will not proceed For each license click Read license to read it Chapter 4 Actions available on an installed system Welcome Center 51 IBM Installation Toolkit for Linux on POWER IBM packages licenses License Details Open MPI Read license Commercial Read license I accept all the licenses above Quit Prev Next This shows all of the licenses you must accept in order to install the selected IBM packages If you want to read a license click on Read license In order to proceed you need to accept all licenses by checking the box I accept all the _licenses above Figure 38 Installing packages Licenses Agre
30. in the table and click Activate to reactivate it The new virtual CD DVD device is now created and can be used at the LPAR Associating an ISO image to a virtual CD DVD device of an LPAR This topic explains how to associate an ISO image to a virtual CD DVD device of an LPAR as required to boot IBMIT directly from the ISO image To associate an ISO image to a virtual CD DVD device of an LPAR follow these steps 1 Access the web interface of the IVM of the machine that contains the LPAR 2 On the left menu of IVM main screen click View Modify Virtual Storage 196 Linux IBM Installation Toolkit User Manual Integrated Virtualization Manager Welcome padmin kow_vios Partition Management View Modify Partitions View Modify System Properties VO Adapter Management ViewiModiy Virtual Ethernet Virtual Storage Management View Modify Virtual Storage IVM Management View Modify User Accounts View Modify TCP IP Settings Guided Setup System Plan Management Manage System Plans Service Management Electronic Service Agent Service Focal Point Manage Serviceable Events Service Utilities Create Serviceable Event Manage Dumps Collect VPD Information Updates Backup Restore Application Logs Monitor Tasks Hardware Inventory ViewModify Partitions To perform an action on a partition first select the partition or partitions and then select the task System Overview
31. is the directory where the ISO image will be mounted e lt rootdir gt is a directory whose content is accessible through the HTTP FTP or NFS server e lt reponame gt is the name of the subdirectory of lt rootdir gt that will contain the repository To create a Linux or IBMIT network installation repository follow these steps 1 Mount the ISO image file or disk if you prefer for the distro DVD mount o loop t iso9660 lt isofile gt lt mountdir gt 2 Copy all the files to the repository directory rm rf lt rootdir gt lt reponame gt cp a lt mountdir gt lt rootdir gt lt reponame gt 3 Unmount the ISO image umount lt mountdir gt Alternate method You can also use this alternative method Instead of copying files to the disk you could directly mount the DVD media at a directory made accessible by the server 1 Create a mount point at a location made accessible by the server mkdir p lt rootdir gt lt reponame gt 2 Mount at it the ISO image file or disk if you prefer for the distro DVD mount o loop t iso9660 lt isofile gt lt rootdir gt lt reponame gt 3 After you are finished using the repository umount it umount lt rootdir gt lt reponame gt Appendixes 209 210 Linux IBM Installation Toolkit User Manual Notices This information was developed for products and services offered in the U S A IBM may not offer the products services or features discussed in this do
32. loaded Check the logs in var log wui create_usb_image log for details BRLUC1003E Provided media has not been found Provided media has not been found Check if the media was properly provided BRLUC1004E The media type is not defined the task cannot proceed The media type is not defined Check the logs in var log wui create_usb_image log for details 186 Linux IBM Installation Toolkit User Manual BRLUC1005E Only root can perform this operation Only root can perform this operation Make sure you have root access BRLUC1006E Destination directory could not be created There was an internal error destination directory could not be created Check the logs in var log wui create_usb_image log for details BRLUC1007E Environment could not be set There was an internal error environment could not be set Check the logs in var log wui create_usb_image log for details BRLUC1008E Task verification failed There was an internal error task verification failed Check the logs in var log wui create_usb_image log for details BRLUC1009E Unexpected error mounting destination partition There was an internal error could not mount destination partition Check the logs in var log wui create_usb_image log for details BRLUC1010E USB device not provided USB device was not provided Provide a USB device BRLUC1011E Provided device is not a block device USB device file is not valid Insert another USB device and try again BR
33. properly installed Chapter 8 Troubleshooting 155 BRLDSOOOQE s User interrupt The user must have interrupted mount Try it again BRLDSO010E s Problems writing or locking etc mtab It was not possible to write or lock etc mtab Verify etc mtab permissions and if you are in a read only file system BRLDSOO 1E s Some mount succeeded A mount error code 64 happened Consult the mount manual for more information BRLEMOOO1E Only root can eject media You have to be root to be able to eject medias BRLEMO0002E Media could not be ejected for unknown reason The media could not be ejected for unknown reason BRLEMOO03E The following processes are using the media s The media could not be ejected because the given processes are currently using it BRLFS0036l Fast Start Executer information s Generic information about fast start has been logged BRLFS0040W System didn t boot from the network The system must have been booted from the network for fast start to work Fast start installation will not be started BRLFS0041W No FastStart file found for this system A fast start file has not been found Fast start installation will not be started BRLFS0042E Import Error Could not use FastStart File Aborting FastStart process A fast start file has been found but cannot be used due to errors when loading it Fast start installation will not be started BRLFS0043E Syntax Error Could not use FastStart File Aborti
34. public key to the source machine to execute all scripts to fetch the system information and realize the migration of LAMP data from Source to Target machine Inform the correct password If you don t know this information contact the machine s administrator BRLMT0011E Client Sender Error Msg s Some error happened while starting the client consolidation application that fetches the source profile See the error message for more details 164 Linux IBM Installation Toolkit User Manual BRLMT0012 Sending the client consolidation application to s Status message Sending the client consolidation application to the given host BRLMTO013l Transfer completed OK Status message File transfer completed with success BRLMTO014 Client decompressed Status message Client consolidation application was decompressed successfully BRLMTO015l Client consolidation application started OK Status message Client consolidation application is running No problems reported BRLMT0016E ERROR The client consolidation applicantion didn t start Some error happened while starting the client consolidation application Check the logs for more information BRLMT0017E ERROR The upload of the client consolidation application to s has failed Some error happened while sending the client consolidation application to the given host Check the logs for more information BRLMTO018E Invalid IP address for Install Server The provided IP for t
35. s will be LOST Are you sure you want to proceed In order to create a msdos partition table you have to confirm the operation Be careful when doing this operation as all data in the disk being edited will be lost BRLDPO0051E Swap or prep partitions cannot have a mountpoint Partitions of type swap and prep do not use mountpoints Leave the corresponding field blank BRLDSOOO1E Could not find search database There is no documentation database installed You must install the documentation to proceed you can load it from DVD or from an ISO image BRLDSO002E Select a file to view it No file was selected You must select a file to view it BRLDSO0003E s Could not mount CD DVD drive It was not possible to mount any drive Insert a media and try again BRLDSOOO4E Invalid media Please insert an IBMIT media The media is not an IBMIT media Insert an IBMIT media and try again BRLDSO005E Media doesn t have documents The media does not have documents Insert a IBMIT media with documents and try again BRLDSOOOGE s Incorrect invocation or permissions A mount error code 2 happened Consult the mount manual for more information BRLDSO007E s System error out of memory cannot fork no more loop devices The was a system error Consult mount manual for error code 2 for more information BRLDSOOOS8E s Internal mount bug or missing NFS support in mount Internal mount bug or missing NFS support Verify if you have NFS
36. sure that the distro repositories are correctly configured on the system Click Next to proceed Chapter 4 Actions available on an installed system Welcome Center 47 IBM installation Toolkit for Linux on POWER IBM RAS Tools This wizard will guide you through the IBM packages installation process Prior to using the 1 Click Next to move to the wizard make sure to have the distro repositories correctly configured on the next step system so that packages dependencies can be successfully resolved Please be aware that if the distro repositories are not available dependencies problems may occur Click Next to proceed Figure 34 Choose your package servers 4 If you are running an Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 system you must select the packages location CD DVD media or Network repository 48 Linux IBM Installation Toolkit User Manual IBM Installation Toolkit for Linux on POWER Select installation source Choose the installation source 1 Choose the installation source Network repository and click Next D IBM Installation Toolkit CD DVD media Quit Prev Next Figure 35 Installing packages source of installation selection Click Next 5 If you selected Network repository enter the server URL For example http 192 168 1 54 myrepo The supported protocols are HTTP FTP and NFS Chapter 4 Actions available on an installed system Welcome Center 49 IBM Installation Tool
37. system This tool installs or uninstalls PowerVM Lx86 on your machine PowerVM Lx86 can be used to run x86 binary files on POWER machines PowerVM Lx86 is composed by two components the translator and the x86 World The translator is the virtual machine that allows x86 binary files to be run on POWER machines The x86 World is a directory with a complete x86 Linux distro where the x86 binary files to be run must be installed Both components must be installed for PowerVM Lx86 to be used Prerequisites Before installing or uninstalling PowerVM Lx86 you must have the following items e PowerVM Lx86 installer CD DVD ISO image or tarball e ISO images for the x86 distro to be installed with PowerVM Lx86 e The advance toolchain runtime and advance toolchain devel packages installed except when using Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 The PowerVM Lx86 installer can be downloaded at http www ibm com developerworks linux 1x86 You can install the advance toolchain packages with the tool Install IBM packages on the system after adding the advance toolchain repository with the tool Manage repositories used_by the system The repository URL should be automatically displayed In case it is not the URL is 54 Linux IBM Installation Toolkit User Manual linuxpatch ncsa uiuc edu toolchain at at05 redhat RHELS ftp linuxpatch ncsa uiuc edu toolchain at at05 suse SLES_10 or ftp linuxpatch ncsa uiuc edu toolchain at at05 suse SLES_11 de
38. system Select the file system type to be used in the USB key Choose any you prefer as this choice will not affect the functionality of the created USB key e IBMIT media source This field indicates where the IBMIT media will be available to be read CD DVD ROM drive or ISO image file Files needed to configure the boot server must be retrieved from the IBMIT media so this field is required e Extras Choose if you want to include documentation firmware files and IBM packages in the USB key Without any extras the created USB key will only be useful to boot the machine with IBMIT IBM Installation Toolkit for Linux on POWER Bootable USB key creation Parameters 1 Choose the USB device from USB device jJeayjedb 3 91 GB Kinast Staller 20 2 the Combo box 2 Select the dev sdb 3 91 GB Kingston DataTraveler_2 0 _Refresh ee io be ted create File system ext2 the image 3 Choose the source media typelf you want to include firmware files or documentation check the corresponding boxes o IBMIT media source CD DVD ROM dev sr0 Extras Include documentation O firmware files C IBM packages au 21 nee Figure 112 Create USB key 3 If you chose ISO image as the IBMIT media source browse your file system and select the ISO image file to be used 128 Linux IBM Installation Toolkit User Manual IBM Installation Toolkit for Linux on POWER Select ISO image
39. system you can perform a number of actions from the Welcome Center After running the Welcome Center and accessing it you will be presented to a menu similar to this one IBM Installation Toolkit for Linux on POWER Welcome Center Install Tools Utilities Task Monitor Help Figure 29 Welcome Center main menu On the installed system main menu you can select the following options e Install Tools opens the submenu with tools related to installation tasks Copyright IBM Corp 2009 2010 43 IBM Installation Toolkit for Linux on POWER Welcome Center Install Tools J Install IBM Packages in a Running System Manage IBM System p Application Virtual Environment for x86 Linux PowerVM Lx86 Figure 30 Install Tools window graphical mode e Utilities opens a submenu with utilities 44 Linux IBM Installation Toolkit User Manual IBM Installation Toolkit for Linux on POWER Welcome Center Utilities g Repositories Management BJ USB Image Creator Eject Media Reboot Machine a Exit Browser lt Previous Figure 31 Welcome Center menu Utilities e Task Monitor opens the Task monitory function For more information see Monitor tasks on page 39 e Help opens the submenu with items related to help and documentation Chapter 4 Actions available on an installed system Welcome Center 45 IBM Installation Toolkit for Linux on POWER Welcome Center Help
40. the Welcome Center or System tools main menu Chapter 6 Actions available on both systems 139 IBM Installation Toolkit for Linux on POWER Install Tools Utilities Task Monitor Help Figure 124 Welcome Center main menu 140 Linux IBM Installation Toolkit User Manual IBM Installation Toolkit for Linux on POWER System Tools 4 Server Management Server Consolidation Task Monitor Tool Figure 125 System tools main window For each task in the list there are four columns Name Description State and Duration Name Displays the unique identifier for the task You can use these identifiers to refer to the task whenever you need Description Displays a short description for the task State Displays the current state for that task Possible states include e Running The task is running e Interactive The task is stopped waiting for user interaction You should move to the Task details window in order to find out what the task is requesting and do it e Paused The task is in paused state e Canceled The task has been canceled e Error The task has finished with error You should move to the Task details window in order to find out what happened e Completed The task has finished with success e N A The task state in unavailable Duration Displays the length of time that the task has been running For example if a task to set up a repository called Red Hat Enterpri
41. the managed system where the new LPAR will be O ae ESS created 2 Provide the IP address O 192 168 255 253 SSH port number user and PRESSE ARR password to access managed VIO access info system VIO server IP address SSH port 22 Quit Prev Next Figure 104 Managed system selection and VIOS access info When you are finished click Next gt gt 4 The next steps are the same for both IVM and HMC systems Enter the new LPAR IP address contact your Network Administrator if you are not sure about it the host name and subnet to be used The host name is used as the LPAR name as well Chapter 5 Actions available on an installed system System tools 119 LPAR Creator LPAR network settings Settings IP address 08 234 171 Hostname Subnet 9 8 234 128 Quit Prev Next 1 enter the IP address and 2 the hostname to be used for the new LPAR 3 choose the subnet where it is Figure 105 LPAR network configuration When you are finished click Next 5 The next window is the LPAR Disk Configuration Depending on the managed system configuration you may be asked to select to either create a storage pool or use an existent one for the LPAR virtual disk In case there is no space available for the new virtual disk you will be able to continue but the LPAR creation will fail Note On HMC systems a free virtual SCSI adapter vhost is needed in order to create the LPAR
42. to IBM web site content 1 Follow the instructions in TNR f the main window On registering you will get access to the IBM web site content available on the Internet You will be able to use the Support for IBM Systems and Servers web site http www ibm com systems support which provides technical information for IT professionals who maintain IBM System p System i and BladeCenter servers As support bulletins are released you receive email containing links to the bulletins Emails are available in HTML or plain text format Customers can select one or more operating systems topics and categories You can choose to have new topics automatically added to your preferences You will be notified on a daily basis of updates to your subscribed topics Registered users can also access the IBM Installation Toolkit for Linux on POWER Support Forum at http www ibm com developerworks forums forum jspa forumID 937 and post messages In order to register click the button Click here to register below You will be redirected to the IBM web site Click here to register Quit Figure 123 Register at IBM Monitor tasks The Task monitor is a tool that allows you to monitor the progress of tasks that you are running in the background You can monitor the state of all tasks in the Tasks overview window and the details of a specific task in the Task details window You can start the tool by click Task monitor either in
43. to specify an existing path to proceed with this operation BRLSNO103E Specify a path not yet exported on the protocol to proceed The path specified is already exported for the chosen protocol You have to specify a path not yet exported for the protocol to proceed BRLSNO104W The export path to be deleted contains repositories The export path to be deleted contains repositories which means they won t be available anymore if you proceed with the operation BRLSN1000E Repository creation canceled The repository creation task has been canceled BRLSN1001E The passed distro is not supported by the backend The distro chosen for repository creation is not supported by the tool s backend BRLSN1002E The passed media source is not supported by the backend The media source type is not supported by the tool s backend BRLSN1003E Media has not been found Provided media has not been found Verify if it is correct BRLSN1004E The media type has not been passed to the backend An internal error occurred and the media type could not be provided to the tool s backend You may check the log at tmp log for details BRLSN1005E Only root can create a repository You have to be root in order to create repositories Chapter 8 Troubleshooting 183 BRLSN1006E The destination directory could not be created by the backend The destination directory could not be created by the tool s backend You may check the log at tmp log for details BR
44. update the list with a newly created network installation repository or an inserted USB key e Distro source Choose the installation source for the Linux distro Depending on your system CD DVD ROM devices and network installation repositories may be available e Use custom network URL If you want to use a Linux distro network installation repository not listed above type its URL in this field e IBMIT source Choose the installation source for the IBM packages Depending on your system CD DVD ROM devices USB key devices and network installation repositories may be available e Use custom network URL If you want to use an IBM packages network installation repository not listed above enter the URL in this field Chapter 3 Actions available on a live system 17 IBM installation Toolkit for Linux on POWER Installation sources selection Distro packages source 1 Choose from the list a Distro source http 9 8 234 146 RHEL4U8 c ee ee Use custom network URL M 2 Choose from the list a source with IBM packages to IBM packages source n be installed on the distro 3 If IBMIT source CD DVD ROM 3 a network repository is not in f the list you may type its URL Use custom network URL in the correspondent text box Use custom network URL using the URL notation For example nfs 1 2 3 4 path Refresh sources Quit Prev Next Figure 6 Installation sources selectio
45. want to uninstall Only the components that are currently installed will be available for selection 66 Linux IBM Installation Toolkit User Manual Uninstallation options Components C PowerVM Lx86 Translator O X86 World Quit Prev Next IBM installation Toolkit for Linux on POWER Select in the list the PowerVM Lx86 components to be uninstalled If a component is disabled in the list it means it is not currently installed Figure 53 PowerVM Lx86 translator and x86World uninstall window 3 Confirm the uninstallation options and click Next Chapter 4 Actions available on an installed system Welcome Center 67 IBM Installation Toolkit for Linux on POWER Uninstallation summary What will be uninstalled Check the PowerVM Lx86 Components x86World components which will be Direco es uninstalled and the directories which will be removed If you To be removed i386 are sure this is what you want click on Next to start the uninstallation process Quit Prev Next Figure 54 PowerVM Lx86 uninstall summary The process will take place on background and can be followed in the Task Monitor at any time 68 Linux IBM Installation Toolkit User Manual IBM installation Toolkit for Linux on POWER Tasks overview Tasks 1 Choose a task in the table name description state duration and click on Cancel in order Lx86 1 PowerVM Lx86 uninstallation I Running 3s to cancel it
46. 0 1A 64 45 4A 21 9 8 234 128 changes ashley fedora 9 8 234 192 Oa 11 bf 9c a0 04 9 8 234 128 ashley ecm 9 8 234 193 Oa 11 ba 81 29 04 9 8 234 128 O rico vio 9 8 234 167 00 0D 60 4D EB 6A 9 8 234 128 ricolp1 9 8 234 168 12 29 80 00 30 02 9 8 234 128 ricolp2 9 8 234 169 12 29 80 00 20 02 9 8 234 128 D legend 9 8 234 174 00 11 25 C0 3A 6D 9 8 234 128 J kow ppack test1 9 8 234 160 ae b3 c0 00 20 04 9 8 234 128 kow ppack test2 9 8 234 161 ae b3 c0 00 30 04 9 8 234 128 Lors nmm nle tant ae Ma Ea P M a Pan ANE MANN A Por Ath Pour Add Edit Delete Quit Manage subnets Apply changes Figure 78 Manage Clients System need to apply changes When clicking Apply changes the process begins and you can track its progress 92 Linux IBM Installation Toolkit User Manual Apply changes Applying Saving to disk and restarting DHCP service Figure 79 Manage Clients System applying changes After the process is finished you can click View DHCP file to see the resulting DHCP configuration file that is now in effect or click OK to return to the main screen Chapter 5 Actions available on an installed system System tools 93 Apply changes e System Tools control file and the DHCP configuration file have been updated and the DHCP service restarted If you want to check the new ontents of the DHCP file click View DHCP file Otherwise click OK View DHCP file OK Figure
47. 11SP1RC3 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1 gt http nfs srv www htdocs SLES11SP1GA SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1 http nfs srv www htdocs RHEL5U5RC4 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Update 5 http nfs srv www htdocs slesllga SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 http nfs srv www htdocs SLES10SP2 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP2 D http nfs srv www htdocs SLES10SP3 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP3 http nfs srv www htdocs RHEL4U7 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Update 7 http nfs srv www htdocs RHEL4U8 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Update 8 http nfs srv www htdocs RHEL5U4 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Update 4 Quit Add Delete Figure 83 Server Management menu main screen Adding a repository You can use the Server management window to add a repository To add a repository follow these steps 1 On the Server Management window click Add 2 Enter the following information Exported Path Location where the repository will be accessible in the network To understand in details what an exported path is and to learn how to add a new one refer to Adding an exported path Directory Name Repository name It is also the name of the subdirectory inside the exported path directory where the repository will be created For example if you type myrepo and choose the exported path at srv repositories accessible at http 192 168 1 54 repositories then your repository will be created at srv reposito
48. 1W Taskrunner s is down The HTTP server has not detected a working taskrunner instance BRLHS0012W Watcher thread did not find taskrunner PID The HTTP server watcher thread did not find a taskrunner instance BRLIN0001E ERROR SETTING LOCALE s This is a generic message used for debugging purposes only BRLINOO02E When setting locale s s This is a generic message used for debugging purposes only BRLISOOO1E No TFTP Path specified The TFTP export directory field of the Network Server Setup Update wizard was left blank Specify the protocol export directory in order for the IBM Installation Toolkit to be able to copy all necessary files to setup the TFTP service BRLISOOO3E No ISO image file specified The IBM Toolkit source field of the Network Server Setup Update wizard was left blank Specify the complete path with the ISO files in order for the IBM Installation Toolkit to be able to copy all necessary files to the repository directories BRLISOOOSE Invalid TFTP Path The specified TFTP export directory is invalid Specify a valid destination directory The directory entry must start with a forward slash and should not contain any empty spaces BRLISOOO7E Invalid DVD disc or ISO image file The specified IBM Toolkit source information is invalid Specify a valid destination directory The directory entry must start with a forward slash and should not contain any empty spaces This information must include the
49. 80 Manage Clients System changes applied If you chose to read the DHCP configuration file click OK to return to the main screen 94 Linux IBM Installation Toolkit User Manual IBM Installation Toolkit for Linux on POWER DHCP configuration file ddns update style ad hoc 1 When you finished reading max lease time 14400 the file click OK to return to sunaria nyan the previous window log facility local7 LTC Br dhcpd configuration subnet 9 8 234 128 netmask 255 255 255 128 option domain name ltc br ibm com option domain name servers 9 8 234 180 9 18 232 128 deny unknown clients option routers 9 8 234 138 POWER6 LEGEND PowerS range from 159 to 166 reserved to Kowalski using fixed address in IVM but leave this here for reference host kow vio hardware ethernet 00 0D 60 51 09 46 fixed address 9 8 234 159 option host name kow vio H 4 ATX HH Blades range from 141 to 155 reserved to the Blades 4 Quit OK Figure 81 Manage Clients System view DHCP configuration file Manage Linux installation repositories available on the server This tool creates Linux and IBMIT network installation repositories Those repositories can be used to perform Linux installations from the network rather than from CD DVD ROM or USB key Note This tool currently works only on POWER machines If you want to create a network installat
50. BM Installation Toolkit to be able to retrieve the required packages The available options are HTTP FTP or NFS BRLMT0027E No IP address specified for Install Server The IP address field for the Install Server was left blank The user needs to specify this information in order for the IBM Installation Toolkit to be able to retrieve the required packages for the Linux distributions BRLMT0028E No directory specified for Install Server The directory field for the Install Server was left blank Specify the directory in order for the IBM Installation Toolkit to be able to retrieve the required packages BRLMT0029E No protocol specified for Packages Server The protocol for the IBM Packages Server was left blank Specify a protocol in order for the IBM Installation Toolkit to be able to retrieve those packages BRLMTOO30E No IP address specified for Packages Server The IP address field for the Packages Server was left blank Specify the IP address in order for the IBM Installation Toolkit to be able to retrieve the required packages BRLMT0031E No directory specified for the Packages Server The directory field for the IBM Packages Server was left blank Specify the IBM packages server in order for the IBM Installation Toolkit to be able to retrieve those packages 166 Linux IBM Installation Toolkit User Manual BRLMT0032E ERROR Dependency error in client There is no some dependency of the Server Consolidation Client applicatio
51. BRLDP0033E The file system of a s partition cannot be s The filesystem type selected is not compatible with the partition s mountpoint Choose another filesystem or enter a different mountpoint BRLDPOO35E The chosen distro cannot have a s partition The partition s mountpoint is invalid for the distro selected Enter a different mountpoint Chapter 8 Troubleshooting 153 BRLDPOO36E The size of a s partition must be exactly d MB For the partition type entered you have to enter exactly the size given by the error message BRLDPO037E The size of a s partition must be at least d MB The size for the partition type entered must be at least the same as given by the error message BRLDPOO38E The size of a s partition must be at most d MB The size for the partition type entered must be at most the same as given by the error message BRLDPOO39E The size of a s partition must be between d MB and d MB The partition type entered must have its size in the range given by the error message BRLDP0040W A boot mount point has not been found in any partition The distro you selected for installation requires a boot partition in the partitioning scheme Make sure to add one before proceeding BRLDP0041E Conflict found on partition s when trying to fix s Please choose distinct partitions for each fix to be performed The same partition was selected for two or more fixes to be performed Choose a different partition for each fix BRL
52. BRLMTOO38E Target distro not supported The distribution of the Target machine is not supported by the Server Consolidation Tool The Source distributions supported are Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and its updates 1 2 3 4 5 and 6 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and its updates 1 2 and 3 SLES 9 and its service packs 1 2 3 and 4 and SLES 10 and its service packs 1 1U1 and 2 BRLMTOO39E Invalid MAC address to the target system The MAC address of the Target machine is wrong or doesn t exist Check the correct MAC address in the Server Management Manage Client Systems icon of the System Tools main menu The MAC address must follow the format where should be an integer from 0 to 9 or upper case characters from A to F Examples of valid addresses are 00 15 58 0B 5A 5F 12 29 80 00 30 03 and 22 4C 90 00 30 03 If you do not know this information contact your network administrator BRLMTOO40E Error trying to set Target system Some problem happened while the Server Consolidation Tool tried to set up the Target system informations Please restart the migration process Chapter 8 Troubleshooting 167 BRLMTO0041 Starting the migration process of the file s Status message The given file is being migrated from the Source to the Target machine BRLMT0042E ERROR Could not connect to the RPC server s s Can t connect to the client consolidation application via RPC Check the error message for more detail
53. BRLSNOOO3E Specify a directory not existent in the specified export path to proceed The directory specified must not exist Enter a directory name which does not exist in the filesystem to proceed BRLSNOOO4E Specify a directory to proceed A directory name must be specified in order to continue BRLSNOOOSE The distro does not support the selected media The media type selected is not supported by the distro Choose an approppriate media type and try again BRLSNOOOSE Not all required ISOs were provided You have selected a number of ISOs which is less than the quantity needed Select a number of ISOs that corresponds to the distro and media type chosen BRLSNOO10E Free the required disk space to proceed The required space to create to repository is not available on the disk Free the necessary disk space before proceeding 182 Linux IBM Installation Toolkit User Manual BRLSNO011W Ensure other tasks do not consume all required free space before proceeding The tool detected other tasks running that may consume the disk space available Make sure they do not consume all required free space before proceeding BRLSNO100E Specify a path to proceed You have to specify a path in order to proceed with this operation BRLSNO101E Specify an export URL path to proceed You have to specify an export URL path to proceed with this operation BRLSNO102E Specify an existing path to proceed The path specified does not exist You have
54. CSOOO3E No IP address specified The IP address field was left blank You have to provide the IP address for the client information BRLCSO004E Invalid IP address The provided IP is either incomplete or in an invalid format The IP address must follow the format 0 255 0 255 0 255 0 255 Examples of valid addresses are 10 2 0 1 192 168 3 20 Invalid addresses are 455 303 100 20 or 10 0 0 If you do not know this information contact your network administrator BRLCS0005E No MAC address specified The MAC address field was left blank You have to provide the MAC address for the client information BRLCSOOO6E Invalid MAC address The provided MAC address is either incomplete or in an invalid format The MAC address must follow the format where should be an integer from 0 to 9 or upper case characters from A to F Examples of valid addresses are 00 15 58 0B 5A 5F 12 29 80 00 30 03 and 22 4C 90 00 30 03 If you do not know this information contact your network administrator BRLCS0007E No netmask specified The Network mask field was left blank You have to provide the network mask for the client information BRLCSOOOSE Invalid netmask The provided network mask is either incomplete or in an invalid format The network mask must follow the format 0 255 0 255 0 255 0 255 Examples of valid netmasks are 255 255 255 0 255 255 255 128 BRLCSOOOQE Invalid gateway The provided gateway is either inco
55. Check the log at var log wui for details and verify if the HMC or IVM management system is properly configured BRLLCOO11E Target contains no Management System The information provided does not refer to a management system Verify the information entered to make sure it refers to a HMC or IVM management system BRLLCOO14E Error creating virtual disk An error occurred during the LPAR creation process when trying to create the virtual disk Check the log file at var log wui for details and verify if the HMC or IVM management system is properly configured BRLLCOO15E This IP is already configured to another machine The IP address specified to be assigned to the LPAR is already assigned to another host in the DHCP configuration file Specify another IP address Consult your network administrator for available IP addresses BRLLCO016E Not able to find available SCSI slots Please create one and try again It has not been possible to find available SCSI slots in HMC An LPAR cannot be created without a SCSI slot Create one in HMC to proceed BRLLCO0017E LPAR name already in use Please choose a different one The name provided for the new LPAR is already in use by another LPAR in the HMC or IVM management system Choose another name for the new LPAR BRLLCO018E No source system IP address specified An IP address has not been specified to access the source system Specify one to proceed BRLLCO019E Source system IP address i
56. DP0042E No fix selected Please choose at least one fix No fix was selected You have to select at least one fix to be performed BRLDP0043E Partition size must be an integer The size entered for the partition is invalid Make sure to enter an integer number in the corresponding field BRLDPOO44E Partition size not passed No size was entered for the partition You have to enter a size for the partition in the corresponding field BRLDPOO45E Mount point must be a path The mountpoint entered is invalid Make sure to enter a path as the partition s mountpoint BRLDPOO46E A partition set to be formatted needs a mount point For Red Hat Enterprise Linux installations when you choose to format a partition of type other than swap you also need to specify a mount point for it BRLDP0O047E Primary partition s must have a valid filesystem set For Red Hat Enterprise Linux installations all primary partitions need to be configured with a valid filesystem 154 Linux IBM Installation Toolkit User Manual BRLDPO048E Partition must have a mount point For Red Hat Enterprise Linux installations when creating a new partition of type other than swap or PReP you need to specify a mount point for it BRLDPOO49E Create a msdos partition table in order to use the disk The disk does not contain a valid msdos partition table In order to use it you have to create a msdos partition table first BRLDPOO50W Any data contained in the disk dev
57. FTP server to be set up di RUE exports its files 2 specify the Ber meda RSE ISO image s IBM Installation Toolkit media source to be used Figure 64 Boot server configuration parameters 3 If you chose ISO image as the IBMIT media source browse your file system and select the ISO image file to be used 78 Linux IBM Installation Toolkit User Manual IBM Installation Toolkit for Linux on POWER IBM Installation Toolkit ISO image selection z se Browse through the file system Location tmp iso ISO image files Browse and select an IBM Toolkit ISO Name image O mn M IBM Installation Toolkit for Linux 4 1 iso Quit Prev Next Figure 65 IBMIT ISO image selection 4 Confirm your choices and click Next to start the boot server configuration process Chapter 5 Actions available on an installed system System tools 79 IBM installation Toolkit for Linux on POWER Summary Parameters TFTP export path tftpboot IBMIT media source tmp iso IBM Installation Toolkit for Linux 4 1 iso Quit Prev Next Confirm the TFTP server export path and IBM Installation Toolkit media source to be used If you are sure this is what is you want click Next to proceed Figure 66 Boot server configuration summary The process will take place in background and can be followed in the Task Monitor at any time 80 Linux IBM Installation Toolkit User Manual IBM In
58. General information 1 set the name of your Company name Nameless Inc company your own name and Registrant rame t Joe User ore esen a Email address joe nameless inc E gat number if you Address Telephone number Distro specific information RHN login RHN Account number Quit Prev Next Figure 49 Settings for PowerVM Lx86 Installation Registration Click Next 6 Review the summary of your configuration and click Next Chapter 4 Actions available on an installed system Welcome Center 63 IBM Installation Toolkit for Linux on POWER Installation summary Lx86 Translator installation Translator opt powervm x86 Logs var opt powervm Ix86 log x86 World installation Linux distribution RedHat Enterprise Linux 5 Update 3 Installation profile MIN Source DVD x86 World i386 Home home Quit Prev Next Figure 50 Settings for PowerVM Lx86 Installation Summary Check the x86 World installation settings and the directories which will be used If you wish to change anything click on Prev until you get back to the desired screen If you are sure this is what you want click on Next to start the installation process The installation will start in background and the progress can be monitored in the Task Monitor 64 Linux IBM Installation Toolkit User Manual IBM Installation Toolkit for Linux on POWER Tasks overview
59. HMC and IVM virtual terminals cannot be reset you must manually restart them e When using manual partitioning depending upon the partitions you decide to keep and the former partition scheme of your disks the SLES installer autoyast decides what partitions to create in order to optimize the SLES installation based on the partition table that you defined These decisions mean that autoyast can change slightly the partition scheme that you have defined in the Toolkit e The root file system of the Live DVD is loopback mounted on mnt image So if you unmount it or mount some other file system on it or any of its children directories your system will fail and you will need to reboot it e When using the Welcome Center on an installed Red Hat Enterprise Linux system in text mode elinks prompts for a login and password If you select Cancel to quit this operation you must press Ctrl C to return to the console After a SLES installation through network Yast might warn you that it cannot connect to the packages repository during system boot You can safely click OK to try this operation again e Serial terminal or serial like terminals might not be the best for use as the terminal window refresh behavior is not adequate for this application You might experience some window refresh problems when using it Consider using SSH sessions instead e When installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 with the packages for graphics environments GDM might no
60. IBM Installation Toolkit User Manual at IBM Installation Toolkit User Manual at Note Before using this information and the product it supports read the information in Notices on page 211 First Edition December 2010 Copyright IBM Corporation 2009 2010 US Government Users Restricted Rights Use duplication or disclosure restricted by GSA ADP Schedule Contract with IBM Corp Contents About this guide V Part 1 Installing Linux with the IBM Installation Toolkit s Chapter 1 Introducing IBM Installation Toolkit v4 2 3 Supported Linux distributions 9 Hardware and software requirements Eo IBMIT running modes 4 IBMIT media contents D Chapter 2 Obtaining and running the IBMIT a 7 Running IBMIT on a ie sent ah Running IBMIT on an installed system 9 Starting and accessing the Welcome Center 10 Starting and accessing System tools 10 Chapter 3 Actions available on a live system 13 Install a Linux distro 15 Manually partitioning your disks 28 Updating your firmware lt 32 Configuring the network 38 Using the IBMIT recovery console 40 Chapter 4 Actions available on an installed system Welcome Center 43 Installing IBM packages on the system 46 Install or uninstall PowerVM Lx86 on the system 54 Installing Power VM Lx86 59 Uninstalling PowerVM Lx86 66 Manage repositories used by the system 69 Chapter 5 Actions
61. LMTOO93E Error while creating symbolic links The IBM Server Consolidation Tool could not create the necessary symbolic links to run the client application Check if you are running the System Tools as root and if the etc directory has the correct permissions to execute the job Chapter 8 Troubleshooting 171 BRLMT0094 Public key transfer completed Successfully transfered the Server Consolidation Tool s public key SSH to the Source machine BRLMTOO95E Error while transfering public key The IBM Server Consolidation Tool public key could not be transferred to the Source machine Check if the SSH is up and running in the Source machine or if the SSH port of the Source machine is open in the Source s firewall BRLMTOO96E Error while adding public key into authorized_keys file The IBM Server Consolidation Tool public key could not be inserted in the file that gives remote authorization to the Source machine Check if the root ssh authorized_keys files exists and or if its permissions are correct root needs to write in it BRLMT0097E Not able to load rule s please check XML syntax Not able to load the given rule inside the client consolidation application BRLMTO098E Not able to load configurations on s aborting Not able to load configurations for the client consolidation application BRLMTOO99E Please select only one Mail profile The IBM Server Consolidation Tool only allows to select one Mail profile for ex
62. LSN1007E The environment could not be set by the backend The tool s backend was not able to set its environment You may check the log at tmp log for details BRLSN1008E Verification error The tool s backend returned a verification error You may check the log at tmp log for details BRLSN1009I The ISO image for s could not be found Please enter its path and press OK The given ISO image could not be found Enter the correct path for the image in order to proceed with the operation BRLSN10101 Please insert the disc s and press OK Insert the given disc in order to proceed with the operation BRLSN1011I A disc could not be found in drive Please ensure there is a disc in it and press Retry after the drive light stops blinking No disc could be found in drive Make sure there is a disc inserted and that it is not corrupted BRLSN1012I There was an error when copying this media An error occurred while copying the given media You can try again or replace the media which may be corrupted BRLTMOOO1E No task has been selected No task has been chosen A task must be selected prior to accessing its details BRLTMOOO4E The task is finished and cannot be canceled Once a task is finished it cannot be canceled anymore BRLTPO001E BRLTPOOO1E Template error s uses invalid key s An internal error occurred caused by an invalid key used on a mapping or sequence BRLTPOOO2E BRLTPOOO2E Template Error s unknown exce
63. LUC1012E Provided device is not a USB storage device USB device is not valid Insert another USB device and try again BRLUC1013E Insufficient space available on USB device Insufficient space available on USB device Insert a USB device with more space BRLUC1014E Unexpected exit code from sfdisk cannot continue Make sure the USB device provided is not mounted or in use by any other process Unexpected exit code from sfdisk cannot continue Make sure the USB device provided is not mounted or in use by any other process BRLUC1015E Unexpected exit code from mkfs utility cannot continue There was an internal error unexpected exit code from mkfs utility Check the logs in var log wui create_usb_image log for details BRLUC1016E Yaboot binary not available in source media Could not find yaboot binary in source media Verify if the source media has the yaboot installed Chapter 8 Troubleshooting 187 BRLUC1017E Unexpected error installing yaboot binary There was an internal error unexpected error installing yaboot binary Check the logs in var log wui create_usb_image log for details BRLUC1018E Error passing parameters to backend There was an internal error error passing parameters to backend Check the logs in var log wui create_usb_image log for details BRLUC1019E Error passing USB device parameter to backend There was an internal error error passing USB device parameter to backend Check the logs in var log w
64. M IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM 1 SMS MENU 5 Default Boot List 8 Open Firmware Prompt 6 Stored Boot List Memory Keyboard Network SCSI Speaker 7 Figure 138 Entering SMS window 3 The first SMS configuration window is displayed Select the Select Boot Options entry by pressing 5 zi Version SF240_358 SMS 1 6 c Copyright IBM Corp 2000 2005 All rights reserved ain Menu Select Language Setup Remote IPL Initial Program Load Change SCSI Settings Select Console Select Boot Options OPWNrER S Type menu item number and press Enter or select Navigation key Figure 139 Changing Boot Options 4 Press 1 to access the boot device type method selection menu 204 Linux IBM Installation Toolkit User Manual Version SF240_ 358
65. M Installation Toolkit media Verify if the filesystem permissions are correctly set to allow the creation of the directory mount point specified in the wizard s error message and try again BRLMUOOOG6E IBM Installation Toolkit media not found The wizard could not find the IBM Installation Toolkit media in any of the optical devices Check the media inserted and try again BRLMUOOO7E No firmware available The IBM Installation Toolkit media does not contain any suitable firmware image for the machine Consider downloading a firmware image file and select it at the filesystem menu in the wizard BRLMUO0008 No CD DVD drive found No CD DVD drive was found in your system Because of that no option is available to load firmware images from the IBMIT DVD If you have a CD DVD drive it may not be working BRLMUOOO9E Could not validate file type IBM Installation Toolkit media not found A problem occurred while trying to access the media in the drive Verify if the media is inserted in the drive and it is correctly working BRLMUOO10E The file s is not a valid firmware image The firmware file selected is not a valid RPM package or raw data file Verify the file provided and try again BRLMUOO011E No firmware image file chosen You have to select a firmware image file in order to proceed 174 Linux IBM Installation Toolkit User Manual BRLMUO0012E Error installing firmware RPM package An error occurred while installing the R
66. MT0022E Could not connect to the Packages Server The connection between the Server Consolidation Tool machine and the Packages Server is not working It is recommended that you verify the IP address and protocol chosen for the packages server communication Most likely the IP address is not correct for the packages server IP or the server is not set to work with the protocol chosen BRLMT0023E Invalid directory for Packages Server The specified directory for the packages server is not in a valid format The directory entry must start with a forward slash and should not contain any empty spaces BRLMT0024E Fingerprint check failed on Packages Server The IBM Server Consolidation Tool could not check the fingerprint on the Packages Server repository This means that either the information to contact the server is incorrect or that the specified repository was not set up with the System Tools Contact the server administrator for more information BRLMT0025E Fingerprint check failed on Install Server The IBM Server Consolidation Tool could not check the fingerprint on the Install Server repository This means that either the information to contact the server is incorrect or that the specified repository was not set up with the System Tools Contact the server administrator for more information BRLMT0026E No protocol specified for Install Server The protocol for the Install Server was left blank Specify the protocol in order for the I
67. N TO THE PARTY FROM WHOM IT WAS OBTAINED FOR A REFUND OF THE AMOUNT PAID IF THE PROGRAM WAS DOWNLOADED DESTROY ALL COPIES OF THE PROGRAM 1 Definitions Authorized Use the specified level at which Licensee is authorized to execute or run the Program That level may be measured by number of Decline Accept Figure 44 License for PowerVM Lx86 Installer 5 If you do not have any component of PowerVM Lx86 installed you will be directly moved to the PowerVM Lx86 installation procedure If you have all the components installed you will be directly moved to the PowerVM Lx86 uninstallation procedure If you have at least one but not all components installed you will be asked which action you want to take Choose one and proceed 58 Linux IBM Installation Toolkit User Manual IBM Installation Toolkit for Linux on POWER Action to be performed Installed components 1 Either the PowerVM Lx86 translator translator or x86World is already installed Choose one Apune of the options in order to Install Install x86World the PowerVM Lx86 component Uninstall translator which is not yet installed or 2 Uninstall the one that is already installed Figure 45 Action selection for PowerVM Lx86 Installer Click Next or Quit Installing PowerVM Lx86 If you do not have any components already installed or if you explicitly chose so you will be directed to install PowerVM Lx86 Use these instructions to install
68. OK when authoritative done log facility local7 Quit Cancel Figure 77 Manage Clients System edit DHCP headers 4 When you are finished click OK Note that if you do not click Apply changes the changes will not take effect See Applying changes After you have made all the changes to Client management systems you must apply changes or none of these actions will take effect Note When you click Apply changes the DHCP server is restarted and the new configuration file will take effect This action is unavailable until after you have made a change After performing any actions such as adding editing or removing a client or a subnet Apply changes will become active and you will see a message telling you to click it for those actions to take effect Note that until you do it those actions will not have any effect Chapter 5 Actions available on an installed system System tools 91 IBM installation Toolkit for Linux on POWER Client systems management BRLCS0033W Configuration has been changed when you are done remember to click M 1 To add new clients click the Add button 2 To edit a Subnet AJ c Filter client click Edit 3 To remove a client click Delete 4 If you want to manage the subnets click Manage subnets 5 Registered clients on pps RDS DehielTR RE OUR PAS A ren done click the Apply RS SERRE SR changes button to save the crawford 9 8 234 152 0
69. PM package provided Verify if the package file is valid BRLMUOO13E Error creating temporary directory tmp fwupdate The wizard was not able to create the directory tmp fwupdate Verify if the filesystem permissions allow the creation of this directory and try again BRLMUOO14E Error copying image file to temporary directory tmp fwupdate The firmware file could not be copied to the directory tmp fwupdate Verify if the filesystem permissions are correctly set to allow file copies to this directory and try again BRLNCOOO1E No network card selected You have to select a network card to be configured from the network interfaces list BRLNCO002W The interface link is currently down This message warns you that the network interface selected has no link no cable connected You may continue configuring it but it will not work until the link is up BRLNCOOOSE Invalid IP address entered The IP address inserted is not a valid address Specify a valid IP address in order for the IBM Installation Toolkit to be able to set the IP address for the selected network interface If you do not know this information contact your network administrator BRLNCOOO4E No IP address specified The IP address field was left blank Specify an IP address in order for the IBM Installation Toolkit to be able to set the IP address for the selected network interface BRLNCOOOSE Invalid network mask entered The network mask inserted is not a valid mask Spe
70. R PowerVM Lx86 installer tarball file selection e F Browse through the files and Location mnt nfs Tarball files Browse select the PORC UM cae Name tarball file iii ii lost found ii ppack ii ppc ini tmp ini vios ERLE REC powervm Ix86 1 3 1 0 1 tgz powervm x86 1 4 0 9 1 tgz powervm x86 1 4 1 0 RC2 tar gz GC NC ESC IA powervm x86 installer 1 4 0 0 1 tgz Quit Prev Next Figure 43 Media browser for PowerVM Lx86 Installer 4 Read the license and accept it You can only proceed if you agree to the license Chapter 4 Actions available on an installed system Welcome Center 57 IBM installation Toolkit for Linux on POWER License International License Agreement for Non Warranted Programs Read the license text then accept or decline it by clicking Part 1 General Terms on one of the buttons If you BY DOWNLOADING INSTALLING COPYING ACCESSING CLICKING ON AN ACCEPT decline the license you will not BUTTON OR OTHERWISE USING THE PROGRAM LICENSEE AGREES TO THE TERMS OF be able to use this software THIS AGREEMENT IF YOU ARE ACCEPTING THESE TERMS ON BEHALF OF LICENSEE YOU REPRESENT AND WARRANT THAT YOU HAVE FULL AUTHORITY TO BIND LICENSEE TO THESE TERMS IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THESE TERMS fl DO NOT DOWNLOAD INSTALL COPY ACCESS CLICK ON AN ACCEPT BUTTON OR USE THE PROGRAM AND PROMPTLY RETURN THE UNUSED MEDIA AND DOCUMENTATIO
71. RLLC0027E Management system user not specified A username has not been specified to access the HMC or IVM management system Specify one to proceed BRLLCO028E Management system password not specified A password has not been specified to access the HMC or IVM management system Specify one to proceed BRLLCO029E No LPAR IP address specified No IP address has been specified to be assigned to the LPAR Specify one to proceed BRLLCOOSOE LPAR IP address is not valid An invalid IP address has been specified to be assigned to the LPAR Specify a valid one to proceed A valid IP address could be 192 168 1 54 for example BRLLC0032W A source machine was passed but no profile could be retrieved from it It was not possible to retrieve required information about the source machine The LPAR creation process cannot continue Chapter 8 Troubleshooting 163 BRLLCO033E There is no storage resources disk enough to be used No storage pools with space enough to perform an installation like the one present in the source machine could be found to be assigned to the LPAR The LPAR creation process cannot continue BRLLC0034E Needed space could not be calculated The disk space needed to perform an installation like the one present in the source machine could not be determined The LPAR creation process cannot continue BRLLCOO35E The passed hostname is already configured to another machine The passed hostname is already used for anot
72. SMS 1 6 c Copyright IBM Corp 2000 2005 All rights reserved Multiboot 1 Select Install Boot Device 2 Configure Boot Device Order 3 Multiboot Startup lt OFF gt Navigation Keys M return to Main Menu ESC key return to previous screen x eXit System Management Services Type menu item number and press Enter or select Navigation key Figure 140 Configuring Boot Device Order 5 Press 7 to see all the available boot devices methods Version SF240_358 SMS 1 6 c Copyright IBM Corp 2000 2005 All rights reserved Select Device Type Diskette Tape CD DVD IDE Hard Drive Network List All Devices NOOR w DH Navigation Keys M return to Main Menu ESC key return to previous screen x eXit System Management Services Type menu item number and press Enter or select Navigation key W Figure 141 Selecting Device Type for booting 6 Press the number corresponding the device you want to use You can guess the device type based on its name e CD DVD ROM devices Names containing the word CD ROM such as SCSI CD ROM and USB CD ROM Note that this choice applies both for physical and virtual devices e Network devices Names containing the word Ethernet or LAN such as Virtual Ethernet IBM Host Ethernet Adapter and Interpartition Logical LAN e USB disk devices Names such as USB Disk Do not mix these names with USB CD ROM Appendixes 205 a Version SF240_358 SMS 1 6 c Copyrig
73. Service Agent Service Focal Point eM e Serviceable Physical Tape Devices No devices Events Service Utilities Create Serviceable Event Manage Dumps Collect VPD Information Updates Backup Restore NI Figure 137 ISO image assigned to the virtual CD DVD device Configuring the boot method to be used by the system This topic explains how to configure the boot method to be used by the machine as required to boot the IBMIT live system To configure the boot method to be used by the machine follow these steps 1 Ensure that you have access to the terminal of the system then power it on or restart it 2 After the initial hardware tests the SMS window opens At this window enter 1 Appendixes 203 IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IB
74. This is a generic message used for debugging purposes only BRLPVO0041E Error registering the product An error occurred when saving the registering information Try to fill the register fields again BRLPV0042E PowerVM Lx86 does not support this machine The PowerVM Lx86 does not support this machine BRLPV0043E Install the required packages in order to proceed The given packages are required by the PowerVM Lx86 but are not installed Install them to proceed BRLPVOO44E Copy task canceled The copy task has been canceled BRLPV0045E The passed distro is not supported by the backend The distro chosen is not supported by the tool s backend Chapter 8 Troubleshooting 177 BRLPVOO46E The passed media source is not supported by the backend The media source type is not supported by the tool s backend BRLPV0047E Media has not been found Provided media has not been found Verify if it is correct BRLPVO048E The media type has not been passed to the backend An internal error occurred and the media type could not be provided to the tool s backend Try to start the operation over from the beginning BRLPVOO049E Only root can perform this operation You have to be root in order to perform this operation BRLPVOO50E The destination directory could not be created by the backend The destination directory could not be created by the tool s backend Try to start the operation over from the beginning BRLPVOO51E The environment could no
75. Welcome Center 73 IBM Installation Toolkit for Linux on POWER New custom repository registration Custom repository information Repository name SLES10 Resource type NFS A Location destination dir for CD DVD nfs 192 168 0 1 repo SLES1 State active ei Quit Cancel Add Figure 60 New custom repository registration The repository is added 74 Linux IBM Installation Toolkit User Manual 1 Enter the repository name and choose its type 2 For example for NFS enter the location in the form nfs 192 168 0 1 path 3 Choose the repository state in system active inactive 4 Click Add to confirm Chapter 5 Actions available on an installed system System tools The IBM Installation Toolkit System tools includes server management tools a server consolidation tool and a task monitor e Server management Set up and configure a network boot server and an installation server e Server consolidation Migrate a server from System x to POWER machines e Task monitor Monitor tasks that are running in the background The main window is displayed below IBM Installation Toolkit for Linux on POWER System Tools A Server Management Server Consolidation Task Monitor Tool Figure 61 System tools main window Server Management tools Server Management tools allow you to set up a boot server with the IBM Installation Toolkit images and ca
76. accept it to proceed Running IBMIT on an installed system This section explains how to run IBMIT on a running Linux system If you are running a system which was installed without the IBM Installation Toolkit first you must install the necessary packages For a system installed using the IBM Installation Toolkit the packages are already available and you can skip the instructions in the next section Note On a system installed using the IBM Installation Toolkit you may have not chosen to install the systools package during the wizard process If so and you intend to use it use the tool Installing IBM packages on the system on page 46 from Welcome Center to install the package For the following instructions these conventions apply 1 lt isofile gt is the IBMIT ISO image file 2 lt mountdir gt is the directory where the IBMIT ISO image or DVD will be mounted Install IBMIT on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 system 1 Ensure that you have the text mode browser Elinks installed 2 Install the pam devel ppc version only ppc64 not needed package that is provided by the distro 3 Install IBMIT by running the following commands mount o loop t iso9660 lt isofile gt lt mountdir gt rpm ivh lt mountdir gt RedHat RPMS wui 4 1 1 noarch rpm lt mountdi r gt RedHat RPMS wui_core 4 1 1 noarch rpm lt mountdir gt RedHat RPMS PAM authenticate 2 0 2 ppc64 rpm lt mountdir gt RedHat RPMS systools 4 1 1 noarch rpm
77. achine BRLMT0067E Error translating from source to target machine An Error happened while translating the Source profile to the target machine BRLMTOO68E Error writing installation file Error writing the installation file Make sure your disk is not full BRLMTOO69E Error migrating group s s Could not migrate the given group from the Source to the Target machine Chapter 8 Troubleshooting 169 BRLMT0070E Can t migrate users error while dumping Groupsinfo Error while migrating the users from Source to Target system Couldn t interpret user s group information BRLMTOO71E Error migrating user s s Couldn t migrate the given user Check the error message for mode details BRLMT0072E No hostname specified The hostname of the Target machine is wrong or doesn t exist Check the correct hostname in the Server Management Manage Client Systems icon of the System Tools main menu BRLMT0073E Process already running with pid s Use force to override There s already a running process with the same pid You must use the force switch to kill the old process and open a new one BRLMT0074E Killing zombie process s not present in var run xmm pid Killing zombie client consolidation application process BRLMTO075E The given path does not exist in the source system The path of the additional data doesn t exists in the Source machine Check the correct path and try again BRLMTO0076E Error while connecting to source to
78. agement Registered subnets 1 click Add in order to add a ___ IP Address Netmask Clients registered available new subnet 2 choose an 9 8 234 128 255 255 255 128 26 32 existing subnet and click Edit to modify or Delete to remove it 3 click Edit DHCP headers to control the headers of the DHCP config file and finally 4 click Done when you are done managing your subnets Add Edit Delete Quit Edit DHCP headers Done Figure 76 Subnet management window 2 Select the subnet that you want to delete click Delete Note that if you do not click Apply changes the changes will not take effect See Editing DHCP headers You can specify DHCP configuration headers to be used Both global and subnet specific headers may be specified To edit headers follow these steps 1 Open the Subnets management menu by selecting Manage subnets from the main Client Systems Management menu You can also select Manage subnets when adding a new client or editing an existing client 2 Select Edit DHCP headers from the Subnet management menu 3 Enter each header separated by a semicolon Consult the DHCP server documentation to learn about headers 90 Linux IBM Installation Toolkit User Manual IBM Installation Toolkit for Linux on POWER DHCP configuration headers DHCP headers 1 Enter the headers separated ddns update style ad hoc by a semicolon ex header1 max lease time 14400 header2 and click
79. ain screen and perform a new search 134 Linux IBM Installation Toolkit User Manual IBM installation Toolkit for Linux on POWER Linux on Power documentation Terms 1 Select a document and click oe Found on View Document to read it HTML Solaris_to_Linux_Migration _A Guide for System_Administrators or 2 click on New Search to __ 15 04 htm search again HTML Implementing_Linux_with_IBM_Disk_Storage 12 13 htm PDF Service_provider_information_Resolving_problems_verifying_repair pdf HTML Solaris_to_Linux_Migration _A Guide for System_Administrators 08 18 htm HTML Solaris_to_Linux_Migration _A_Guide_for_System_Administrators 13 09 htm PDF Disk_drive pdf HTML IBM_eServer_i5_and_iSeries System Handbook IBM i5 OS Version 5 Release 3 October 2004 13 2 htm PDF P5 Openpower Facts_Features pdf PDF Diagnostic_ Information for Multiple Bus Systems pdf HTML IBM_eServer_i5_and_iSeries System _ Handbook IBM i5 OS Version 5 Release 3 October 2004 24 9 htm HTML IBM_eServer i5 and _iSeries System Handbook IBM i5 OS Version 5 Release 3 October 2004 08 04 htm DITOR AL ANDAA nO mee IE menl Corine Curt Vinndhoela AA ie Quit New Search View Document Figure 119 Browse documentation search results Reading a document After selecting a document and clicking View Document the document is displayed and you can read it Click Close Document when you are finished reading Note that if the document is a PDF
80. ample Sendmail or Postfix at the same time Choose one of them to proceed BRLMT0113E Not able to fetch drc_name for S The Tool could not retrieve the drc_name for the device during the LPAR creation process Check the log at var log wui for details and verify if the HMC IVM system is properly configured BRLMT0114E Error mapping vhost to physical devices An error occurred during the LPAR creation process Check the log at var log wui for details and verify if the HMC IVM system is properly configured BRLMT0117E Not able to create LPAR s Error while creating new LPAR during the migration process Check the error message for more details BRLMT0118E Not able to bind LPAR s to storage s During the LPAR creation process the Tool could not bind the LPAR to the virtual disk Check the log at var log wui for details and verify if the HMC IVM system is properly configured BRLMT0119E Not able setup DHCP Server for the new LPAR The Tool could not register the new LPAR in the DHCP server Check the log at var log wui for details on the cause of the error 172 Linux IBM Installation Toolkit User Manual BRLMT0120E Not able to create virtual ethernet adapter During the creation process the Tool could not create a virtual Ethernet adapter for the new LPAR Check the log at var log wui for details and verify if the HMC IVM system is properly configured BRLMT0122E Can t fetch MAC address for virtual network interface The
81. and your browser does not have a plug in to display it then the system will download the PDF and place it where you choose in the file system You can then use any PDF viewer to read it Chapter 6 Actions available on both systems 135 IBM installation Toolkit for Linux on POWER Linux On Power Documentation 1 click on Close Document Previous Home Back to Welcome Center Next when you are done reading it Solaris to Linux Migration A Guide for System Administrators m A comprehensive reference for a quick transition ME Presents a task based be er ph Quit Close Document Figure 120 Document View Window When using text mode a link to the document will be displayed You can click it to access the document PDF documents will be downloaded as in graphical mode and you can use any PDF viewer to read it HTML documents will be displayed inside the text mode web browser but will completely replace the IBMIT user interface In order to go back to the IBMIT user interface after reading the document you must repeatedly move to the previous screen of the browser by pressing Shift B until get back to the IBMIT screen 136 Linux IBM Installation Toolkit User Manual IBM Installation Toolkit for Linux on POWER Linux On Power Documentation Show instructions Click here to access the document docs RELEASE NOTES U4 fr html Actions Quit Close Document t 4 Viewing lt IBM Installation Too
82. any time in the task monitor under the task id migration l Please write it down Go to task monitor Start a new migration Go to main menu Quit Prev Next 1 track the progress of this migration by clicking on Go to task monitor 2 start a new migration or 3 go to the main menu by click on the corresponding button Figure 99 Migration started If you want to monitor the migration progress click Go to task monitor Then select the task ID that you recorded previously and click Details After the first boot of the installed system all the data is migrated from the source to the target machine and you will receive at that window messages reporting the progress of the migration 114 Linux IBM Installation Toolkit User Manual IBM Installation Toolkit for Linux on POWER Tasks overview Tasks 1 Choose a task in the table and _ name description state duration click on Cancel in order to cancel migration 1 Migration from 9 3 117 150 to 93 111 185 Running 2m06s it or 2 click on Details in order to see the its details screen Cancel Details out prev non Figure 100 Monitor your tasks window Chapter 5 Actions available on an installed system System tools 115 IBM Installation Toolkit for Linux on POWER task migration 1 Migration progress Migration settings Source machine 9 3 117 150 Target machine 9 3 111 185 Migration messages 2009 111 S311 Ol 24 Connect
83. artition will be mounted for example or boot Chapter 3 Actions available on a live system 29 IBM Installation Toolkit for Linux on POWER Disk partitioning Settings for new partition 1 choose the file system you File system ext3 5 wish the partition to use 2 set t a size for the partition or set it size MB c All available to use all available space 3 Mount point set a mount point for the a partition on the installed system Figure 18 Partitioner add a partition 3 Click Add to finish Editing a partition To edit a partition follow these steps 1 On the Partitioner main window select the partition you want to edit and click Edit 2 Modify the partition settings you want If this partition is a new partition follow the steps in Adding a partition on page 29 30 Linux IBM Installation Toolkit User Manual IBM installation Toolkit for Linux on POWER Disk partitioning Settings for partition new3 File system swap 1 choose the file system you wish the partition to use if you change the file system the size 1024 MB z partition will be formated Mount point whether you choose it or not 2 set a size for the partition 3 set a mount point for the partition Cancel Apply rit rev exe Figure 19 Partitioner edit a new partition For an existing partition edit the following
84. artition will be mounted in the installed system for example or boot e Format Whether the partition will be formatted and lose all data IBM installation Toolkit for Linux on POWER Disk partitioning Current disk yaayj eda Change 1 select the disk you wish to I dev sda ka partition and click on Change 2 select a blank space blk dev sda capacity 10 24 GB free 1 03 GB and click on Add to create a Name Type Size Free F System M Point Format partition on it 3 select a sdal Pri 7 00 MB N A prep N A no partition and click on Edit or O sda2 Pri 94 00MB 73 00MB ext3 Jboot no Delete to edit or delete it 4 sda3 Pri 809GB 7 53GB ext2 N A no click on Delete all to remove sda Ext N A N A N A N A na all partitions 5 click on Reset s to restore the initial s new3 N A 102GB 1 02 GB swap N A yes partitioning blk2 N A 1 03 GB 1 03 GB N A N A N A Add Edit Delete Delete all Reset Quit Prev Next Figure 17 Partitioner main screen Adding a partition To add a partition 1 Select an empty space in the current disk and click Add 2 Enter the following partition settings e File system Specify the file system that the partition will use If this partition will be the first partition of the disk the file system must be prep e Size Enter the size in MB GB or TB that the partition will have Check All available to use all the space available e Mount point Specify where the p
85. available on an installed system System tools 75 Server Management tools n 75 Configure the boot server for IBM Tnstallation Toolkit 76 Copyright IBM Corp 2009 2010 Manage client systems for the boot server 82 Manage Linux installation ae available on the server bos g s oh a 5 95 IBM Server Consolidation Hal os 104 Server Consolidation tool environment 104 Performing a migration 105 Chapter 6 Actions available on both systems 127 Create an IBM Installation Toolkit bob USB key oe Gr rs ow 127 Browsing dacuinientation Be ks Ge wk Oe Fe eS ee Registering at IBM 137 Monitor tasks s a a s s 139 Chapter 7 Known issues and workarounds 145 Chapter 8 Troubleshooting 147 Error information and warning messages 147 Part 2 Appendixes 191 Appendixes 193 Tips on using IBMIT text Mode user ene 193 How to get help from IBMIT community 193 Creating an assigning virtual CD DVD devices to an LPAR 194 Associating an ISO i image io a virtual CD DVD device of an LPAR 196 Configuring the boot method to b used by he system 203 Manually configuring the boot server rior IBM Installation Toolkit 207 Manually configuring a client machine for the IBMIT boot server 208 Man
86. be used for the time and date settings on the installed system Check Use UTC if you want to use UTC e Root password Root password for the installed system Confirm root password Root password again to confirm it 22 Linux IBM Installation Toolkit User Manual IBM installation Toolkit for Linux on POWER General settings for the installed system Input peripherals 1 choose the keyboard and Keyboard F 3 mouse types you need 2 English US choose the language and time Mouse Automatic A zone you wish the installed system to use 3 set a password for the root user and Language English US i an Li confirm it Localization Time zone Eastern O Use UTC System security Root password loo Confirm root password loe Quit Prev Next Figure 11 General settings for the installed system Click Next 7 Select the IBM software to be installed You can see the packages that belong to a specific category by selecting it and clicking Apply You can see details for a specific package by clicking See details Packages that are unavailable for selection will be automatically installed Chapter 3 Actions available on a live system 23 IBM installation Toolkit for Linux on POWER IBM packages to be installed Filter packages by Optional Package O ibm java ppc sdk C ibm java ppc64 sdk M ibm java2 ppc sdk ibm java2 ppc64 sdk K L lop docs O s
87. be used to resolve names This field is optional When you are finished entering the information requested click Next to continue Read the summary window and if the values are correct click Next again to apply the configuration Chapter 3 Actions available on a live system 39 IBM Installation Toolkit for Linux on POWER Manual Network Settings Network interface information 1 Enter the network parameters Interface eth1 for the interface and click Next MAC address 00 1A 64 45 4A 21 Link status Up Configuration parameters IP address 9 8 234 152 Network mask 255 255 255 128 Gateway Optional 9 8 234 138 DNS server Optional 9 8 234 180 Quit Prev Next Figure 28 Configure network manually Note Remember that if you do not provide a valid gateway you will not be able to access the external networks such as the Internet Using the IBMIT recovery console In order to access the IBMIT recovery console you must boot the live system For details about accessing the console from the live system refer to Choosing what to do on the live The IBM Installation Toolkit bootable image loads a minimal Linux system in order to run Linux install firmware update diagnostic and recovery tools and other applications As a common Linux System this minimal Linux system comes with a wide range of applications that allow you to perform system diagnostic and recovery
88. boot server for the IBM Installation Toolkit managing distros and IBM Packages repositories and managing clients registered for booting the IBMIT live system wui This package provides the IBM Installation Toolkit Welcome Center wui_core The core package is used by both the Welcome Center and System tools It provides the necessary files for these two packages to run xconfig This package is used to configure the X System when SuSE boots for the first time Linux IBM Installation Toolkit User Manual Chapter 2 Obtaining and running the IBMIT This section explains all of the steps needed to have IBM Installation Toolkit IBMIT up and running so that you can start using it IBM Installation Toolkit is available for download from IBM s Web site at http www 14 software ibm com webapp set2 sas f lopdiags installtools Running IBMIT on a live system This section explains how to get IBMIT live system up and running In order to run the live system download the IBMIT media and boot a machine with it Various boot methods can be used CD DVD ROM boot IBMIT ISO image directly network based boot or USB device boot After the boot process is completed choose if you want to use the IBMIT live system user interface or the recovery console To learn more about the steps described above consult these sections e Configure the boot server for IBM Installation Toolkit on page 76 e Manage client systems for the boo
89. bout this topic visit Copyright IBM Corp 2009 2010 145 www 128 ibm com developerworks forums thread jspa threadID 200253 The online forum has a sticky thread on this topic as well http www ibm com developerworks forums forum jspa forumID 937 e Only virtual hardware is supported when creating LPARs during LAMP stack migration using the Server Consolidation tool Make sure the VIOS is configured to provide virtual disks and virtual Ethernet e When performing manual partitioning on SLES installations if the disk contains all the four primary partitions one of them being extended and 5 or more logical partitions Auto YaST might fail and cancel the installation e When installing SLES11 GA or Service Pack 1 from DVD using some specific DVD drives the SLES installer might not recognize that the DVD installation media is inside the drive right away and because of that situation ask you to insert it in the drive If that happens wait a few seconds for the DVD to be recognized and hit the keys 1 and Enter to proceed e Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 users should not manually install the powerpc utils package from the IBM Installation Toolkit for Linux Installing the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 package installs the version of the powerpc utils package that is compatible with the distribution 146 Linux IBM Installation Toolkit User Manual Chapter 8 Troubleshooting This section provides information about all the war
90. ccess IBM i Access for Linux allows you to access the DB2 for i using its ODBC Driver and to establish a 5250 session to an IBM i from a Linux client JTOpen Open source Version of the IBM toolbox for Java The IBM toolbox for Java is a library of Java classes supporting the client server and Internet programming models to an iSeries or AS 400 system JTOpen doc Documentation for JTOpen package librtas The librtas package contains a library that allows applications to access certain functionality provided by platform firmware This functionality is required by many of the other higher level service and productivity tools libservicelog A library that provides the API by which Servicelog stores retrieves and modifies system event and error notification details libvpd The libvpd package contains the classes that are used to access a vpd database created by vpdupdate in the Isvpd package lop docs This package contains all of the Redbooks Whitebooks and other Linux on Power Systems Servers documentation from IBM Isupd The Isvpd package contains the Isvpd Iscfg and Ismcode commands These commands along with a boot time scanning script called update lsvpd db constitute a hardware inventory system nmon Performance Analyzer for Linux on Power Systems Servers openmpi openmpi sles10 openmpi sles11 Open MPI is a project combining technologies and resources from several other projects FT MPI LA MPI LAM MPI and PACX MPI in o
91. cify a valid network mask in order for the IBM Installation Toolkit to be able to set the selected network interface If you do not know this information contact your network administrator BRLNCOOOGE No network mask specified The network mask field was left blank Specify a network mask in order for the IBM Installation Toolkit to be able to set the network interface correctly BRLNCOOO7E Invalid gateway entered The gateway address entered is not a valid gateway Specify a valid gateway address in order for the IBM Installation Toolkit to be able to configure the selected network interface or you may leave it blank BRLNCOOOSE Invalid DNS server entered The DNS server address entered is not valid Specify a valid DNS address in order for the IBM Installation Toolkit to be able to configure the selected network interface or you may leave it blank Chapter 8 Troubleshooting 175 BRLPVOOO8E It has not been possible to complete the operation due to an error in the PowerVM Lx86 installer An error occurred while running the PowerVM Lx86 installer Check the log file at var log wui for details on what may have caused the problem BRLPV0017E PowerVM Lx86 does not support the current installed distro The Linux distribution current installed on the system is not supported by PowerVM Lx86 In order to install the PowerVM the machine has to be running a distribution supported by the program BRLPVO0018E Invalid path s s T
92. ck Monitor progress on Monitor progress to see the repository creation progress in task monitor Quit OK Monitor progress Figure 87 Setup Network Server repository creation process running in background Chapter 5 Actions available on an installed system System tools 101 IBM Installation Toolkit for Linux on POWER task RHEL4 7 Repository creation progress Copying RedHat Enterprise Linux 4 Update 7 DVD 1 This is the details screen for the task RHEL4_7 Click on Show all tasks in order to go to the tasks overview screen kde i18n Norwegian Nynorsk 3 3 1 2 1 noarch rpm Cancel Quit Show all tasks Figure 88 Setup Network Server repository creation progress task monitor screen Delete a repository You can use the Server management window to delete a repository To delete a repository follow these steps 1 In the Server management window select the repository that you want to delete 2 Click Delete 3 Click Yes to confirm The repository will be deleted from the list and also from the file system 102 Linux IBM Installation Toolkit User Manual IBM Installation Toolkit for Linux on POWER Delete Repository Are you sure that you want remove the srv www htdocs ppack repository All files on this Confirm the repository path repository will be erased and click Yes if you are sure you want to delete it Figure 89 Setup Network Server confirm repository deletio
93. ct the specific target machine previously registered client and the Linux distribution to install the target system The options available for Linux distribution depend on the system type chosen in the previous step One option is always selected by default and is equal to the source machine Linux distribution The target machines list is retrieved from the Client System Management step of the Server Management module To be sure that your target machine is in this list you need to register the machine using the Client System Management module To register the machine see Manage client systems for the boot server on page 82 108 Linux IBM Installation Toolkit User Manual IBM Installation Toolkit for Linux on POWER Target system settings Target machine selection 1 choose a registered client to Machine somehost 9 8 234 172 be used as target machine or create a new one by clicking on Installation type Create LPAR 2 choose a Linux Source Linux distro SLES 10 Service Pack 2 distro to be installed on the Target Linux distro SLES 10 Service Pack 3 ppc target machine Create LPAR Quit Prev Next Figure 94 Selecting the target machine and target s Linux distribution You can also choose to create an LPAR to be used as target machine Click Create LPAR and follow the steps in Creating an LPAR on page 116 When you are finished click Next gt gt 7 Select t
94. ctivate BRLRMOOOS5E No repository was selected No repository was selected Select a repository and try again Chapter 8 Troubleshooting 179 BRLRMOOOGE No repository name specified The repository name field was left in blank You must specify a repository name BRLRMOOO7E No location specified The location field was left in blank You must specify a location to the repository BRLRMOOO8E Invalid location entered The location entered is invalid You must specify a valid location according to the chosen resource type BRLRMOOOQE No destination directory specified The destination directory field was left in blank You must specify a destination directory BRLRMOO10E Invalid directory entered cannot use a system directory The directory location is invalid The location can not be a system directory Specify a new one BRLRMOO11E No media found please try again No media was found in any drive Insert a media and try again BRLRMOO12E Error loading yum related libraries The wizard failed to load a yum related library needed to run properly Make sure you have YUM and its dependencies correctly installed in the system and try again Check the logs for details BRLRM0013E Debug s This is a generic message used for debugging purposes only BRLRMOO14E Error loading wizard s repository manager The wizard failed to load its repository manager and cannot proceed Check the logs for details BRLRMOO15E Path already exists please ent
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96. d system To configure your network select the network interface to be configured from the Network interfaces table and select the type of configuration you want automatic or manual from Configuration Type Then click Next 38 Linux IBM Installation Toolkit User Manual IBM Installation Toolkit for Linux on POWER System Network Settings Network interfaces available 1 Choose a network interface to Interface MAC Address IP Address Netmask Gateway Link be configured from the list 2 O ethi 00 1A 64 45 4A 21 9 8 234 152 255 255 255 128 9 8 234 138 Up Select the configuration type etho 00 1A 64 45 4A 20 None None None Down automatic or manual and click Next DNS servers 9 8 234 180 9 18 232 128 Configuration options Configuration type Automatic DHCP out 2 ne Figure 27 Configure network graphical mode Configuring network automatically If you selected the automatic configuration a confirmation window is displayed Verify that your selection is correct and click Next to proceed Configuring network manually If you select manual configuration a new window displays On that window you must provide the following information e IP address IP address number to be used by the machine e Network mask Network mask of the IP address entered e Gateway IP address number of the machine used as a gateway to access the external networks This field is optional e DNS server DNS server to
97. d system Welcome Center 59 e RPM files temporary directory Temporary directory to hold the x86 World Linux distro installation files IBM installation Toolkit for Linux on POWER Settings for ther PowerVM Lx86 installation Translation settings 1 set the directory where the Installation directory Jopt powervm Ix86 See hed nd tthe will Log files directory yar opt powervm Ix86 log directory where it will place its 3 log files 3 choose the x86 x86 World settings Ss Linux distro to be installed 4 Linux distribution RedHat Enterprise Linux 5 Update 3 lt set the directory where the m x86 world will be installed 5 set the home directory path Installation directory i386 Home directory home or leave it blank to create a P new one inside the x86 world RPM files temporary directory tmp ibmit_x86_world_rpms path 6 set a temporary directory to hold the RPM files used to install the distro Quit Prev Next Figure 46 Settings for PowerVM Lx86 Installation Click Next 3 Select Installation profile Media source and Media type for the x86 World installation The following options are available e Installation profile Full or Minimal installation e Media source Optical device or ISO image e Media type CD or DVD 60 Linux IBM Installation Toolkit User Manual IBM Installation Toolkit for Linux on POWER Settings for
98. dd a custom repository enter the following information and click Add to proceed e Repository name The name you want to use for the new repository e Repository type The type of the repository you are adding The available options depend on your system Red Hat Enterprise Linux baseurl metalink mirrorlist NFS and CD DVD media SLES URL and CD DVD media e Location Indicates where the repository can be found This field depends on the repository type chosen above baseurl Provide the URL where the repository can be found The URL must be of the type file ftp or http For example ftp 192 168 1 54 my ftp repo could be used NFS Similar to baseurl but uses nfs URL type For example nfs 192 168 1 54 my nfs repo could be used metalink Specify a location for a metalink file mirrorlist Specify a location for a mirror list CD DVD media Red Hat Enterprise Linux The repository will be added by copying the content of a CD DVD to a destination directory Provide the path for that directory URL Provide the URL where the repository can be found The URL must be of the type ftp nfs http or https For example http 192 168 1 54 my http repo could be used CD DVD media SLES Nothing must be copied on SLES Leave the field blank e State Defines whether the repository will initially be active or inactive Chapter 4 Actions available on an installed system
99. des e IBM Installation Toolkit v4 1 does not support Multipath LVM or NPIV configurations IBMIT running modes The IBM Installation Toolkit can run on two different environments the live system and the installed system These two modes are explained in detail below Live System The Live System is the IBMIT native environment that is used for tasks such as Linux installation system recovery firmware update The live system can be booted from a DVD ROM ISO image for LPARs with virtual DVD devices network or USB key For information about how to run the live system refer to Running IBMIT on a live system on page 7 Installed System The Installed System is a running Linux system that was either installed with IBMIT or previously installed with the IBMIT package s installed For information about how to run IBMIT on an installed system refer to Running IBMIT on an installed system on page 9 4 Linux IBM Installation Toolkit User Manual IBMIT media contents The IBM Installation Toolkit media contains documentation firmware images and value added IBM packages The list of packages available in the media includes the following csm client and csm core The CSM packages provide for the exchange of host based authentication security keys These tools also set up distributed RMC features on the Hardware Management Console HMC devices chrp base ServiceRM Service Resource Manager is a Reliable Scalab
100. e Packages Server repository This means that either the information to contact the server is incorrect or that the specified repository was not set up with the System Tools Contact the server administrator for more information BRLIWOO44E Fingerprint check failed on Install Server The Welcome Center could not check the fingerprint on the Install Server repository This means that either the information to contact the server is incorrect or that the specified repository was not set up with the System Tools Contact the server administrator for more information BRLIW0047E No disks found on current machine No disks were found on current machine In order to proceed with Linux installation you must have one installed disk device on you machine BRLIWOO51E Invalid DNS address The DNS address entered is invalid You must specify a valid DNS address for the network configuration Chapter 8 Troubleshooting 159 BRLIWOO54E Invalid hostname The hostname entered is invalid You must specify a valid hostname for the network configuration BRLIWOO55E No hostname specified The hostname field was left blank You must specify a valid hostname for the network configuration BRLIWOO56E Could not determine route to Install Server Check the network setup The Wizard could not determine which network interface is being used to connect to the Install Server You may check if the system s network is properly configured and try again BRLIW0057E C
101. e a CD DVD ROM drive available which means you will not be able to perform CD DVD based installations BRLIW1003E There is no available install media The IBM Installation Toolkit could not find any CD DVD ROM drive or network connection available on the system At least one of these medias are required in order to allow the Toolkit to install 160 Linux IBM Installation Toolkit User Manual BRLIW1004E No disks found on current machine The IBM Installation Toolkit could not find any disks available on the system The system must have a disk in order to proceed with the installation BRLIW1005E License terms must be accepted The IBM Installation Toolkit will not allow to proceed until the license terms are accepted BRLIW1006E Root password does not match The root password and the confirmation entered are not the same Make sure to type the same password on the root password and confirmation fields and try again BRLIW1007E Root password must be set The root password field was left blank A root password must be entered in order to continue the installation process BRLIW1100E Invalid Driver Update Disk for the selected distro or driver already loaded The optical media does not contain a valid Driver Update Disk for the selected distro or the driver was already loaded BRLIW1101E More than one source selected for Driver Update Disk You cannot select more than one source for Driver Update Disk at a time BRLIW1102E You mu
102. e creation of the new partition will not be completed because there is not enough available space on the disk Enter a partition size for the new partition that does not exceed the available free space on disk BRLDPOOOSE Cannot edit a prep boot partition You can not edit a prep boot partition You can only create a prep boot partition by clicking the Create PReP button BRLDP0011E No disks selected If there are two or more disks in the system to create or delete partitions you must choose one disk from the list in order to proceed BRLDP0021W At least one disk must have a PReP as its first partition A PReP partition is missing and the disk partitioning will not finish without one Create a PReP partition to complete the partition plan BRLDPOO28E No blank space selected A new partition cannot be created where another partition already exists In order to add a new partition you have to select a blank space BRLDP0029E Cannot edit a blank space A blank space cannot be edited You can only add new partitions using a blank space BRLDPOO30E Cannot edit an extended partition An extended partition cannot be edited only deleted BRLDP0031E Cannot delete a blank space Blank spaces cannot be deleted you can only use them to add new partitions BRLDP0032E The chosen distro cannot format a partition as s The filesystem type selected is not supported by the distro Choose a different filesystem to format the partition as
103. e given error occurred when communicating with the TaskRunner BRLRKOOOSI Run task at s cmd s args S The given application was launched at the specified location with the described arguments BRLRKOOOGE Could not launch external application s The given error occurred when launching the application BRLRKOOO7I Finished Relaunch elinks now The application finished and the ELinks browser was relaunched BRLRKOOOS8I Finished Relaunch w3m now The application finished and the w3m browser was relaunched BRLRKOOOQE Could not launch w3m The application finished and the w3m browser was not relaunched BRLRMOOO1E Not able to identify Linux distribution installed Could not determine the running Linux distribution This may be caused by a missing etc SuSE release or etc redhat release file on the system Check the file availability and run the wizard again BRLRMOOO2E Error trying to fetch information from system s repository manager check the logs for details It was not possible fetch information from system s repository manager Make sure your package manager is working properly BRLRMOOO3I No repositories are available in the system There are no repository available in the system You can add a new repository by clicking on Add Custom button BRLRMOOO4E The wizard cannot activate NFS repositories The NFS repository can not be activated manually in Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems Choose another repository to a
104. e host name an identifier used to create this machine entry into the dhcpd conf file Note that this name is an arbitrary name and not an Internet hostname such as somename ibm com Subnet Select the subnet of the new client To manage the available subnets select Manage subnets Refer to Managing subnets for details IP address The IP address that is assigned to the MAC hardware address of this machine This address is fixed and will be assigned to this machine every time it connects to the local network MAC address The client machine MAC address of the network device being used to boot through network Comments Additional comments used to identify this client machine This field is optional Chapter 5 Actions available on an installed system System tools 85 IBM Installation Toolkit for Linux on POWER Add client system Client parameters 1 type a hostname choose a Hostname subnet type the IP and MAC Sibna address and comments for the 9 8 234 128 client to be added then click IP address Add 2 or click Manage subnets in order to add edit or Mac address delete subnets to be used Comments Optional Quit Manage subnets Cancel Add Figure 72 Manage Clients System add new client 3 When you are finished entering the information click Add Note that if you do not click Apply changes the changes will not take effect See Editing a client
105. e machine already has Apache and MySQL installed these two options are unavailable in the list They are migrated by default to the target machine 110 Linux IBM Installation Toolkit User Manual Software profiles to be installed Profiles File server Samba Print server Cups Database server MySQL IBM Installation Toolkit for Linux on POWER 1 select the software profiles you wish to be installed by clicking on Add gt and lt Remove on the selection boxes Database server PostgreSQL Web Server Apache Httpd Directory server Open LDAP Mail server Sendmail Mail server Postfix DHCP and BOOTP server ONMOOOKNOD Quit Prev Next Figure 96 Software profiles to be installed When you are finished click Next 9 Optional Select the options to migrate all users and groups the home directories and the LAMP data from the source machine to the target one The LAMP option is displayed only if there is the Apache or MySQL server applications on the source machine If you select it you must fill the field which asks for the MySQL root password if it is required by the source system Also you can specify some additional data to be migrated along with LAMP stack To add a new file directory type the complete name in the Path field and click Add The new chosen path is displayed in the Additional directories to be migrated box For instance in the figure below tmp directory was add
106. e requirements to use the IBM Installation Toolkit Supported system families Copyright IBM Corp 2009 2010 3 OpenPower POWER processor based blade servers IBM BladeCenter JS12 JS20 JS21 JS22 JS23 and JS43 Express Power System servers Intellistation POWER 185 ATX Supported processor families PPC 970 POWERS POWER5 POWER6 POWER6 POWER7 CD or DVD ROM reader for CD or DVD based installations Network card for installations over the network Minimum of 1 GB of RAM Additionally refer to Red Hat Enterprise Linux or SLES documentation for their minimum hardware requirements TM TM e Requirements to install Linux using the toolkit Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 or Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 installation media if installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux SLES 10 or SLES 11 installation media if installing SLES e Requirements to run IBM Installation Toolkit s Welcome Center on a previously installed Linux system wui wui core PAM authenticate RPM packages provided from the toolkit pam devel RPM package provided from the installation media of the selected Linux distribution SLES11 systems require the python pam RPM package provided from the installation media of the distribution a graphical Firefox or text mode w3m or elinks Web browser Note IBM Installation Toolkit does not support Qlogic FiberChannel cards on Power Architecture bla
107. e this information was published Such trademarks may also be registered or common law trademarks in other countries A current list of IBM trademarks is available on the Web at Copyright and trademark information at www ibm com legal copytrade shtml Adobe the Adobe logo PostScript and the PostScript logo are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Adobe Systems Incorporated in the United States and or other countries Java and all Java based trademarks and logos are registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems Inc in the United States other countries or both Linux is a trademark of Linus Torvalds in the United States other countries or both UNIX is a registered trademark of The Open Group in the United States and other countries Other company product or service names may be trademarks or service marks of others 212 Linux IBM Installation Toolkit User Manual Printed in USA
108. ed for migration You can remove directories from the list by selecting them one or more and clicking Remove selected You cannot migrate the following paths J e bin e dev lib e sbin e proc e usr e boot e etc e initrd Chapter 5 Actions available on an installed system System tools 111 opt e selinux e sys e foar Note e To migrate the LAMP data the tool needs the root user s password of the MySQL server and not the root password of the system itself e Be sure that the MySQL Server is running or can be started in the source machine before starting the migration otherwise MySQL data cannot be migrated e The IBM SCT will not analyze or modify the LAMP configuration files during or after the migration IBM Installation Toolkit for Linux on POWER Data to be migrated Default data to be migrated 1 select the type of settings and M users and groups data you wish to be migrated 2 O home directories if you chose to migrate LAMP O LAMP stack data data enter the root password to be used to access the MySQL Extra source system access info server in the source machine if MySQL root password one is needed 3 enter the path to a specific directory and click on Additional directories to be migrated Add in order to migrate it 4 Path tmp Add select an added directory and click on Remove selected in CT tmp order to remove it Remove selected Quit Prev
109. ed when trying to kill a running application BRLTROO12I Key interruption or stop interation occurred The application has been stopped possibly by a key interruption BRLTROO13E Unsupported state d This is a generic message used for debugging purposes only Chapter 8 Troubleshooting 185 BRLTROO14 Run s with args s This is a generic message used for debugging purposes only BRLTROO15 Run s command This is a generic message used for debugging purposes only BRLTROO16I Run s with args s This is a generic message used for debugging purposes only BRLTROO171 TaskRunner Begin to listen for requisitions The TaskRunner is listening for requisitions BRLTROO18W Incorrect lock usage s This is a generic message used for debugging purposes only BRLUCOOO1E No USB key devices available No USB key devices available Make sure you have a USB device BRLUCOO002E No filesystems supported No filesystems supported Install ext3 or ext2 filesystems support BRLUCOOO3E An image file must be selected No image file was selected You must select an image file BRLUC1000E USB image creation canceled USB creation was canceled BRLUC1001E An internal error occurred the task cannot proceed There was an internal error libraries could not be loaded Check the logs in var log wui create_usb_image log for details BRLUC1002E Error loading libraries the task cannot proceed There was an internal error libraries could not be
110. ement 8 Confirm the packages to be installed and click Next to start the installation process 52 Linux IBM Installation Toolkit User Manual IBM Installation Toolkit for Linux on POWER Summary IBM packages to be installed Verify your package selection Packages to install ibm java ppc sdk openmpi sles10 and click Next to start the L installation process Click Next to begin the installation process Quit Prev Next Figure 39 Installing packages Summary 9 The installation progress is displayed Click OK when the installation is finished Chapter 4 Actions available on an installed system Welcome Center 53 IBM installation Toolkit for Linux on POWER Packages installation Installation progress 1 Follow the installation Looking for an IBM Installation Toolkit repository progress in the message board f 2 If you want to abort the IBM Installat Toolkit t found at http 9 8 234 146 k nstallation Toolkit repository found a p ppack tack and return tothe ee ae MI CORTE Genter Click Cancel Installing ibm java2 ppc sdk ppc 5 0 11 1 IBMIT 70 M ibm java2 ppc64 sdk ppc64 5 0 11 1 IBMIT 69 M Transaction Summary Install 2 Package s Upgrade Package s Total download size 139 M Checking the Kernel Version Checking the Kernel Version CR gt Cancel OK Figure 40 Choose your package servers Install or uninstall PowerVM Lx86 on the
111. er a new directory The directory entered already exists You must specify a new directory BRLRMOO16E Directory name cannot contain spaces The directory name entered contains spaces You must specify a name without spaces BRLRMOO17E Linux distribution not supported This tool does not support Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 systems due to their lack of repository management support If you still want to use it consider installing a newer version of the distribution BRLRMOO18E Repository name s already exists choose another one The repository name entered already exists Choose another name 180 Linux IBM Installation Toolkit User Manual BRLRMOO19E Repository URL s already installed choose another one The repository location already exists Choose another one BRLRTOO01E IBM RAS Tools cannot continue The IBM RAS Tools wizard is disabled when the context does not permit this feature to be used This happens when trying to use the RAS Tools wizard from the IBM Installation Toolkit Live CD BRLRTOO02E Not able to identify Linux distribution installed The tool could not determine which Linux distribution is installed Verify if your file etc redhat release on Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems or etc SuSE release on SLES systems is in the correct format BRLRT00031 No configured network interface The system does not have any network interfaces configured which means you won t be able to use the network as a source to retr
112. es available on the server on page 95 When the network boot server and installation server are set up and available follow these steps 1 Use your browser to initiate a LAMP stack migration by entering the IP address or host name of the network server machine plus the port 8080 for example http 9 8 234 4 8080 to access the tool 2 From the IBM Installation Toolkit main window click Server Consolidation Tool 3 Enter the IP address the SSH port and the root password for the source machine This information is required in order to remotely access the source machine The default port of SSH is 22 but if you have changed this information use the correct port IBM Installation Toolkit for Linux on POWER Source machine parameters Source system access info 1 enter the IP address 2 the IP address 9 8 234 141 port number and 3 the root SSH port 22 user password to be used to connect through SSH to the Root password eeece machine to be used as source for the migration process Quit Prev Next Figure 91 Getting information about the source machine Note If you are running a firewall in the source machine make sure that it is not blocking the SSH port you set 106 Linux IBM Installation Toolkit User Manual After entering all the necessary information click Next gt gt 4 The system attempts to get a source profile with all system information needed to perform the mig
113. evice 206 Linux IBM Installation Toolkit User Manual Version SF240 358 SMS 1 6 c Copyright IBM Corp 2000 2005 All rights reserved Are you sure you want to exit System Management Services T Yes 2 No Type menu item number and press Enter or select Navigation key Figure 144 SMS exit confirmation menu Manually configuring the boot server for IBM Installation Toolkit This topic explains how to manually configure your machine to work as a boot server for IBMIT This action allows client machines to boot the IBMIT from the network instead of needing the CD DVD ROM for it If you prefer to do it automatically use the function Configure the boot server for IBM Installation Toolkit on page 76 Prerequisites Before starting to manually configure the boot server you must have the following items e a TFTP server installed and working on your system e an IBMIT DVD or ISO image file Note For these instructions the following conventions apply e lt tftpdir gt is the TFTP server chroot directory usually tftpboot e lt mountdir gt is the directory where the IBMIT ISO image or DVD will be mounted e lt isofile gt is the IBMIT ISO image file To manually configure the boot server for IBMIT follow these steps 1 Mount the IBMIT ISO image file or the DVD if you prefer mount o loop t iso9660 lt isofile gt lt mountdir gt 2 Copy the IBMIT boot images to the TFTP server mkdir p lt tftpdi
114. ext Quit Prev Next Figure 15 Insert CD DVD media The beginning of the installation process will be shown until the system reboots After that you can watch the terminal of the system to see the installation progress Chapter 3 Actions available on a live system 27 IBM installation Toolkit for Linux on POWER Installation progress toolscenter sgdeploy sgtklinux tk setuptk sh line 113 2625 Killed Follow the progress in the bin setup_menu sh message board cp will not create hard link tmp 14171 29672 t ppc to directory tmp 14171 29672 t initrd etc tmp 14171 29672 sgdeploy sgtklinux tk wfscripts copy logs sh 17 43 08 Starting sgdeploy sgtklinux tk wfscripts copy logs sh 17 43 08 Storing log file tmp log cp cannot stat tmp log No such file or directory 17 43 08 Storing log file var log wui 20100529 log 17 43 08 Storing log file var IBMIT version sgdeploy sgtklinux tk wfscripts ibmit key sh 17 43 08 Starting sgdeploy sgtklinux tk wfscripts ibmit key sh sgdeploy sgtklinux tk wfscripts manage parts sh 17 43 08 Starting sgdeploy sgtklinux tk wfscripts manage parts sh 17 43 08 manage parts py Fixing partition table of disk dev sda 17 43 09 manage parts py Needed to fix False 17 43 09 manage parts py Adapting geometry of disk dev sda Warning extended partition does not start at a cylinder boundary DOS and Linux will interpre
115. fig file and finally 4 click Done when you are done managing your subnets Add Edit Delete Quit Edit DHCP headers Done Figure 75 Subnet management window 2 On the Subnets management menu select the subnet that you want to edit and click Edit 3 Modify the subnet parameters that you want to change e Subnet address Enter the IP address of the subnet e Network mask Enter the netmask for the subnet e Gateway Optionally enter the IP address for the gateway of the subnet e DNS server 1 Optionally enter the address of the primary DNS server to be used e DNS server 2 Optionally enter the address of the secondary DNS server to be used 4 Optionally click Edit headers to specify DHCP configuration headers for the subnet Refer to the section Editing DHCP headers on page 90 to learn about this topic 5 When you are finished click OK Note that if you do not click Apply changes the changes will not take effect See Applying changes on page 91 91 Deleting a subnet You can delete a subnet from the Manage subnets window To delete a subnet follow these steps 1 Open the Subnets management menu by selecting Manage subnets from the main Client Systems Management menu You can also select Manage subnets when adding a new client or editing an existing client Chapter 5 Actions available on an installed system System tools 89 IBM Installation Toolkit for Linux on POWER Subnets man
116. file 1 Choose ISO file containing the IBMIT image and click Next Location ISO image files Browse Name Os ti anaconda templates ni bin ini dev E etc ini home initrd E lib E lib64 In media En mnt E opt ii proc En root le le le ns ss Figure 113 Create USB key select ISO image file 4 Confirm your choices and click Next to start the IBMIT USB key creation process Chapter 6 Actions available on both systems 129 IBM Installation Toolkit for Linux on POWER Summary Parameters 1 Review the image parameters USB device dev sdb and click Next to start creating it File system ext2 IBMIT media source dev sr0 Include documentation Quit Prev Next Figure 114 Create USB key summary The process will take place in background and can be followed in the Task Monitor at any time 130 Linux IBM Installation Toolkit User Manual IBM Installation Toolkit for Linux on POWER USB image is being created The image creation has been started and is running in background Its progress can be seen in 1 Click on Quit to go back to task monitor at any time under the task name USB image creation or right now by clicking on the Welcome Center or 2 click Monitor progress on Monitor progress to see the image creation progress in task monitor Quit Monitor progress Figure 115 Create USB key process running in background
117. h describes that task 142 Linux IBM Installation Toolkit User Manual IBM Installation Toolkit for Linux on POWER task RHEL4 7 Repository creation progress Copying RedHat Enterprise Linux 4 Update 7 DVD 1 This is the details screen for the task RHEL4_7 Click on Show all tasks in order to go to the tasks kde i18n Norwegian Nynorsk 3 3 1 2 1 noarch rpm overview screen Cancel Quit Show all tasks Figure 127 Task monitor tasks details window sample Chapter 6 Actions available on both systems 143 144 Linux IBM Installation Toolkit User Manual Chapter 7 Known issues and workarounds The following list includes known issues and workarounds for installing and using the IBM Installation Toolkit for Linux e Firefox is the only supported web browser for graphical installations e Matrox cards are the only fully supported graphics cards for starting in graphical mode e Sysdiag might not display correct inventory information about some system models e QLogic Fibre Channel cards are not supported on Power Architecture blades e Remote installations using Windows HyperTerminal Internet Explorer and Web System Management PC Client are not fully supported and might cause navigation issues such as Home End keys not working e Mangled Linux startup messages can be safely ignored e If a second instance of Welcome Center is started the first one is closed and the terminal is reset As
118. he Network Install Server distribution repository and the IBM Additional Packages Server IBM Installation Toolkit repository If there are not any repositories configured in the Network Server you can enter a custom URL for another Server in the network Chapter 5 Actions available on an installed system System tools 109 IBM Installation Toolkit for Linux on POWER Package repositories selection Distro packages repository 1 choose from the list a Repository http 127 0 0 1 repository suse sles10 ppc sp3 repository with packages for the distro you wish to be installed 2 choose from the list a repository with IBM packages to be installed j on the distro 3 if a repository is M Repository http 127 0 0 1 repository powerpack4 e not in a list you may type its URL Use custom URL in the correspondent text box Use custom URL using the URL notation For example nfs 1 2 3 4 path Use custom URL IBM packages repository Quit Prev Next Figure 95 Repository servers information Click Next gt gt 8 Optional Select server profile options to install in the target system The available options are e Web server Apache e File server Samba e Print server Cups e Database server PostgreSQL e Database server MySQL e Directory server Open LDAP e Mail server Sendmail e Mail server Postfix DHCP and BOOTP server Note If the sourc
119. he directory could not be created Follow the error message and verify if the permissions are correctly set so that the path can be created by the Toolkit BRLPVOO19E Can t use s because it already exists The provided path cannot be used because it already exists on the system Enter a new path name that either is an empty directory or does not exist on the system BRLPVOO20E Unsupported distro selected The Linux distribution selected for installation is not supported Try selecting a different one BRLPV0021E Invalid field s The information entered for the field is incorrect Verify the information provided and try again BRLPVOO23E Error creating the autorun file An error occurred while creating the autorun file for the PowerVM Lx86 installer Check the log file at var log wui for details on what may have caused the problem BRLPV0028E Could not locate the PowerVM Lx86 rpm The Toolkit could not find a rpm file in the PowerVM provided media Verify if the media is not corrupted BRLPVOO30E Can t use s because it s a non empty directory The provided directory cannot be used because it is not empty Enter a new path name that either is an empty directory or does not exist on the system BRLPVOO31E Can t use s as a path The provided directory cannot be used because it is a system reserved directory Enter a new path name that either is an empty directory or does not exist on the system BRLPV0032E s poin
120. he installation server is either incomplete or in an invalid format The IP address must follow the format 0 255 0 255 0 255 0 255 Examples of valid addresses are 10 2 0 1 192 168 3 20 Invalid addresses are 455 303 100 20 or 10 0 0 BRLMT0019W Could not connect to Install Server The system tried to contact the installation server at the specified IP address using the specified protocol but did not obtain any reply This is probably caused by incorrect network configurations incorrect IP address incompatible protocol between the client and the server or a temporary failure on the server Check the network configuration and make sure that the IP and network protocol used to access the server is correct If the settings are correct the server might be having problems In this case try again later or contact the server s administrator for more information BRLMTOO20E The inserted install server directory is not valid The specified directory for the installation server is not in a valid format The directory entry must start with a slash and should not contain any empty spaces in it BRLMT0021E Invalid IP address for Packages Server The provided IP for the packages server is either incomplete or in an invalid format The IP address must follow the format 0 255 0 255 0 255 0 255 Examples of valid addresses are 10 2 0 1 192 168 3 20 Invalid addresses are 455 303 100 20 or 10 0 0 Chapter 8 Troubleshooting 165 BRL
121. her machine in the DHCP configuration file Choose another hostname to proceed BRLLCOOS6E No subnets have been found No subnets have been found in the DHCP configuration file Add one to proceed You can do it manually or using the tool Manage Client Systems BRLLC0O037E No subnet specified No subnet has been specified for the LPAR Specify one to proceed BRLMTOOO1E No IP Address specified It is necessary an IP address to proceed This message could occurs when the Source or Target IP address is missing to execute some process Inform a correct IP address to proceed BRLMTOOO2E IP address is not valid The IP address given is not valid The IP address must follow the format 0 255 0 255 0 255 0 255 Examples of valid addresses are 10 2 0 1 and 192 168 3 20 Invalid addresses are 455 303 100 20 or 10 0 0 BRLMTOOO3E No port number specified The SSH port number of the Source machine was not specified The port number is necessary to upload the IBM Server Consolidation Tool public key to the source machine Inform the correct SSH port of the machine If the user doesn t know this information contact the machine s administrator BRLMTOO04E Port number is not valid The given port number is not valid It must be an integer value in the range 0 65535 BRLMTOOO5E Root password not specified The root password of the Source machine was not specified This information is necessary to upload the IBM Server Consolidation Tool
122. ht IBM Corp 2000 2005 All rights reserved Select Device Device Current Device Number Position Name 12 PORT 1 IBM Host Ethernet Adapter loc U78A5 001 WIH15A5 P1_t6 2 Virtual Ethernet loc U9113 550 06D28EB V3 C4 T1 3 Interpartition Logical LAN loc U7998 60X 1019C1A V4 C4 T1 4 SCSI CD ROM Toc U9113 550 06D28EB V3 C2 T1 W8200000000000000 L0 5 1 SCSI 10737 MB Harddisk part 1 loc U9113 550 06D28EB V3 C2 T1 W8200000000000000 LO 6 USB Disk part 1 Toc U78A5 001 WIH15A5 P1 T1 L1 L2 L1 LO LO Navigation Keys M return to Main Menu ESC key return to previous screen x eXit System Management Services QE menu item number and press Enter or select Navigation key Figure 142 SMS available boot devices menu 7 The next screen displays the device you have chosen Press 2 to confirm and use it to boot the machine in normal mode version SF240_358 SMS 1 6 c Copyright IBM Corp 2000 2005 All rights reserved Select Task Virtual Ethernet loc U9113 550 06D28EB V3 C4 T1 1 Information 2 Normal Mode Boot 3 Service Mode Boot Navigation Keys M return to Main Menu ESC key return to previous screen x eXit System Management Services QUE menu item number and press Enter or select Navigation key Figure 143 Setting the chosen device as the 1st boot device 8 Press 1 and then Enter to leave the SMS menu and start the boot process with the chosen d
123. ieve packages BRLRT0004I No CD DVD drive found The system does not have a CD DVD ROM drive available which means you won t be able to use a CD DVD media as a source to retrieve packages BRLRTOOOS5E No installation source available The system does not have neither a DVD ROM drive nor network available for retrieving packages At least one of them must be available in order to use the tool BRLRTOOOGE Fingerprint check failed on repository server The packages server provided is not valid The server must be a previously configured IBM Installation Toolkit repository BRLRTO007E Package s license s must be accepted In order to proceed with the IBM RAS Tools packages installation process you must accept the license terms If the licenses are not accepted the tool cannot continue the packages installation BRLRTO008E No packages selected for installation You selected no IBM RAS Tools packages for installation In order to continue with the IBM RAS Tools packages installation select at least one package for installation BRLRTOOO9W There is another task already running Please wait until it is finished and try again Two installation tasks cannot run at the same time If an installation process is running and a new installation is attempted the new installation will not start and the output of the currently running installation will be displayed BRLRTOO 0E Error initializing repository management subsystem Check the
124. iew Modify Virtual Ethernet Virtual Storage Management Storage Pools Physical Volumes EKo CELETTE Virtual Optical Media View Modify Virtual Storage You can assign virtual optical media such as an ISO image directly to a partition to use for storage Select the virtual optical media then select the task that you want to perform You can IVM Management r Se Assert also extend the size of the media library or delete an existing media library View Modify User Accounts EE View Modify TCP IP Media library size 17 93 GB 17 93 GB Available Extend Library Delete Library Settings Guided Setu SS nea System Plan Management 4P x Add Media modity partion assignment Downoad Delete Manage System Plans Select Name v Assigned Partition Mount Type Size L 1 Service Management Electronic Service Agent Physical Tape Devices No devices Service Focal Point Manage Serviceable Events Service Utilities Create Serviceable Event Manage Dumps Collect VPD Information Updates Backup Restore Figure 132 Available ISO images table 4 A new window appears Fither click Upload media to upload the ISO image file or click Add existing file to use a file previously sent by FTP scp etc to the IVM machine Click OK to have the ISO actually added The window will be closed and you will return to the previous windo
125. ing TAB noes ce 40 sen e E Cancel Quit Prev This is the details screen for the task migration 1 Click on Prev in order to go back to the tasks overview screen Figure 101 Status window migration finished Creating an LPAR Creating an LPAR The LPAR creator feature allows you to create an LPAR when migrating the LAMP stack from an x Series server to a POWER machine When choosing a target machine for the migration you can use an already existent system previously configured in System tools or create a new LPAR on some POWER machine To create an LPAR follow these steps 1 When selecting the target Linux distribution and machine in the Migration wizard click Create LPAR 116 Linux IBM Installation Toolkit User Manual IBM Installation Toolkit for Linux on POWER Target system settings Target machine selection 1 choose a registered client to Machine somehost 9 8 234 172 be used as target machine or create a new one by clicking on Installation type Create LPAR 2 choose a Linux Source Linux distro RHEL 4 Update 8 distro to be installed on the Target Linux distro RHEL 4 Update 8 ppc target machine Create LPAR Quit Prev Next Figure 102 Selecting the target Linux distribution and machine The New LPAR window opens 2 Enter the POWER management system information If you are using an IVM system provide the IVM IP address user name and passwo
126. ion repository in other type of machine you can manually do it as described in the topic Manually creating a network installation repository on page 208 Prerequisites Before creating any repository you must have the following items e ISO images or CD DVD disks for the distros you want to create repositories e AN HTTP FTP or NFS server installed and working so that the created repositories can be accessed To start the tool click Setup Network Server on the Server management menu Chapter 5 Actions available on an installed system System tools 95 IBM Installation Toolkit for Linux on POWER System Tools Server Management W Setup Boot Server EF Setup Network Server M Manage Client Systems Figure 82 Server Management Module window The main screen shows a list of the repositories currently available on the server You can Add and Delete repositories Repositories are accessible in the network through exported paths You can also add and remove exported paths 96 Linux IBM Installation Toolkit User Manual IBM Installation Toolkit for Linux on POWER Manage Repositories Available repositories on this server 1 click Add to create a new _ Protocols Path Distro repository or 2 select an http nfs srv www htdocs ppack IBMIT 4 1 existing repository and click http nfs srv www htdocs SLES11SP1RC2 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1 Delete to delete it http nfs srv www htdocs SLES
127. ize it any more Please delete the old Source machine public key information from the root known_hosts file and try again BRLMT0083E Can t migrate to Null source Couldn t get Source machine information Unable to migrate data from a Null Source BRLMT0084E Can t migrate to Null target Couldn t get Target machine information Unable to migrate data a to Null Target BRLMTOO85E Target s RPC server finalized Successfully closed the RPC connection with Target BRLMTOO86E Sources RPC server finalized Successfully closed the RPC connection with Source BRLMTOO88E Can t validate distro repository Null distro The Install Server could not be validated Please check if there is a compatible Install directory repository with the Target distribution value BRLMTOO89E Can t validate distro repository No Repository info The Install Server could not be validated Please check if the Install directory repository is accessible via network BRLMTOO9OE Protocol is not supported The protocol chosen to install the distribution is not supported The supported protocols are HTTP FTP and NFS BRLMTO0091E Can t validate PowerPack repository Null Repository info The IBM Packages Server could not be validated Please check if the Packages directory repository is accessible via network BRLMT0092E Registering s interpreter for s on s s Registered the given interpreter in the client consolidation application BR
128. ized interface that allows you to update firmware run diagnostics and recovery tools prepare the server for Linux installation and have access to Linux documentation You can use the toolkit for the following e Install and configure Linux on a non virtualized Power server and with IBM RAS Tools e Install and configure Linux on servers with previously configured Logical Partitions virtualized servers and with IBM RAS Tools e Install IBM RAS Tools on a previously installed Linux system e Upgrade system firmware level on POWER machines e Perform diagnostics or maintenance operations on previously installed systems e Browse and search Linux documentation included on the Toolkit ISO e Migrate a LAMP server software stack and application data from a System x to a System p server TM e Install PowerVM Lx86 for Linux Supported Linux distributions Use this information to determine which Linux distributions are supported by the IBM Installation Toolkit for Linux IBM Installation Toolkit supports installation of the following Linux distributions e Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Update 7 and 8 e Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Update 4 and 5 e Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 GA e SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP2 and SP3 e SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 GA and SP1 Hardware and software requirements Before you install the IBM Installation toolkit for Linux verify that you have the necessary hardware and software e Hardwar
129. kit for Linux on POWER Select IBM packages repository IBM packages repository 1 If available choose a Repository URL http 192 168 0 1 dist RHEL een a available enter the repository URL Quit Prev Next Figure 36 Choose your package servers 6 50 When you are finished click Next Choose the IBM packages to be installed You can see the packages that belong to a specific category by selecting it and clicking Apply You can see details for a specific package by clicking See details For each package a column with status is displayed e I Indicates the package is already installed This field editable and you cannot uninstall the package e N Indicates the package is not yet installed and can be installed by selecting the it e D Indicates the package is not yet installed but cannot be installed due to unresolved dependencies problems In order to see which dependencies must be installed for a given package click See details After the needed dependencies are installed the package will be available for installation Linux IBM Installation Toolkit User Manual IBM Installation Toolkit for Linux on POWER IBM packages to be installed Eilter packages by All y Apply Package status N not installed I installed D dependency missing Package Category Status Informatic advance toolchain devel Sonal gece Cire Sp N See details ID advance toolchain Advanced Toolchain
130. le Cluster Technology RSCT resource manager that creates the Serviceable Events from the output of the Error Log Analysis tool diagela ServiceRM then sends these events to the Service Focal Point on the Hardware Management Console HMC diagela The Error Log Analysis tool provides automatic analysis and notification of errors reported by the platform firmware on IBM eServer pSeries systems DynamicRM Dynamic Resource Manager is a Reliable Scalable Cluster Technology RSCT resource manager that allows a Hardware Management Console HMC to do tasks such as dynamically add or remove processors or I O slots from a running partition concurrently update system firmware and perform certain shutdown operations on a partition IBMinvscout The Inventory Scout tool surveys one or more systems for hardware and software information The gathered data can be used by Web services such as the Microcode Discovery Service which generates a report indicating if installed microcode needs to be updated ibm java2 ppc64 sdk IBM 64 bit SDK for Linux on iSeries and pSeries Java 2 Technology Edition Version 5 0 ibm java2 ppc sdk IBM 32 bit SDK for Linux on iSeries and pSeries Java 2 Technology Edition Version 5 0 ibm java ppc64 sdk IBM 64 bit SDK for Linux on pSeries architecture Java Technology Edition Version 6 ibm java ppc sdk IBM 32 bit SDK for Linux on pSeries architecture Java TM Technology Edition Version 6 iSeries A
131. lients you want to import and select Import If you do not want any client to be imported select Skip to ignore it Chapter 5 Actions available on an installed system System tools 83 IBM Installation Toolkit for Linux on POWER Import unregistered DHCP clients ni ral 1 select the clients you wish and US Al Eiter click import in pate to use them or 2 click Skip in order to E ignore the clients 3 select a ire e ei IP Address MAC Address Subnet suet and click Filter in order O ashley grub2 9 8 234 170 Oa 11 bd e3 e3 04 9 8 234 128 to Sed oniy ine CEE eee C yaboot 9 8 234 207 62 12 80 00 80 04 9 8 234 128 C shield eclipz3 9 8 234 206 62 12 80 00 70 04 9 8 234 128 C shield eclipz2 9 8 234 205 62 12 80 00 60 04 9 8 234 128 1 shield eclipzl 9 8 234 204 62 12 80 00 50 04 9 8 234 128 C kow ppack test6 9 8 234 165 ae b3 c1 b6 b4 04 9 8 234 128 Quit Skip Import Figure 70 Manage Clients System import unregistered DHCP clients The main screen will be displayed and you can see all the currently registered clients You can see only the clients that belong to a given subnet by selecting it and clicking Filter You can also add edit and delete clients Finally you can manage subnets After performing any actions you must click Apply changes for them to take effect 84 Linux IBM Installation Toolkit User Manual Subnet All S Eilter Registered clients Hostname kow ppack test4
132. lkit for Linux on POWER gt Figure 121 Document View Screen Text Mode Registering at IBM You can register at the IBM Web site through the IBM Installation Toolkit Welcome Center After you register you will have access to the IBM Installation Toolkit forum http www ibm com developerworks forums forum jspa forumID 937 as well as other content available at the IBM Web site Prerequisites In order to register you must do the following actions e Ensure that your machine has access to the external network Internet e Configure your machine to use a DNS server You can do all this actions manually or using the network configuration tool if you are in the live system To register at the IBM Web site follow these steps In order to register select Click here to register and you are redirected to the IBM registration page 1 Select the Register at IBM Web site option in the Welcome Center Help window Chapter 6 Actions available on both systems 137 IBM Installation Toolkit for Linux on POWER _ Register at IBM Web Site po Browse Additional Linux on POWER Documentation lt Previous Figure 122 Welcome Center menu Help 2 Select Click here to register You will be redirected to the IBM registration page Follow the instructions on that page 138 Linux IBM Installation Toolkit User Manual IBM installation Toolkit for Linux on POWER Registration at IBM Web Site Register at IBM and get access
133. log for details The tool failed to initialize the system s package manager zypper on SLES or yum on Red Hat Enterprise Linux Check the application log for further details on what may have caused the problem Chapter 8 Troubleshooting 181 BRLRT0011E Debug s This is a generic message used for debugging purposes only BRLRT0012W At least one external package cannot be displayed because its repository is not installed on system A package is available for installation however its repository is not installed in the system Use the Repositories Management tool to add the external repositories available and try again BRLRT0013W IBM packages cannot be displayed Add an IBM repository in order to display them The IBM packages cannot be installed if its repository is not installed in the system Use the Repositories Management tool to add an IBMIT repository to the system and try again BRLRT0014E No packages can be displayed Add repositories in order to display them The tool could not find any suitable repositories installed Use the Repositories Management tool to add the IBMIT and external repositories and try again BRLSNOOO1E Add an exported path to proceed At least one exported path must be available in order to add a new repository Add a new exported path to proceed BRLSNOO02E Specify a valid directory name to proceed The directory name entered is invalid You have to specify a valid directory name to proceed
134. low these steps 1 Create an IBM Installation Toolkit bootable USB key 2 Restart the system or power it on 3 Configure the system to boot from the USB device and proceed Choosing what to do on the live system After the live system is booted choose if you want to use the IBMIT live system user interface or the recovery console A screen with a menu will be presented Choose what you want by pressing the number corresponding to one of the options and press Enter The following options are available 1 Wizard mode performs the installation Choose this option to use the live system user interface It will be presented in the console text mode and you will be able to perform a Linux installation or any of the other tasks described in Chapter 3 Actions available on a live system on page 13 2 Wizard mode graphical using X Choose this option to use the live system user interface This interface is the same as the previous but in graphical mode This option is only available on systems that have a graphical card 3 Rescue mode initiates a terminal Choose this option to use the recovery console You will have access to a Linux console to perform recovery tasks as described in Using the IBMIT recove xxxxkxkx WELCOME TO IBM INSTALLATION TOOLKIT xxxxxxx xx Machine IP address is 192 168 1 54 xx If you want to connect to Welcome Center froma remote browser you must sta rt the Wizard mode first Web based a
135. lt mountdir gt RedHat RPMS sct pexpect 2 1 1 noarch rpm umount lt mountdir gt Install IBMIT on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 system 1 Ensure that you have the text mode browser Elinks installed 2 Install the pam devel ppc version only ppc64 not needed and yum utils packages that are provided by the distro 3 Install IBMIT by running the following commands mount o loop t iso9660 lt isofile gt lt mountdir gt rpm ivh lt mountdir gt RedHat RPMS wui 4 1 1 noarch rpm lt mountdir gt RedHat RPMS wui_core 4 1 1 noarch rpm lt mountdir gt RedHat RPMS PAM authenticate 2 0 2 ppc64 rpm lt mountdir gt RedHat RPMS systools 4 1 1 noarch rpm lt mountdir gt RedHat RPMS sct pexpect 2 1 1 noarch rpm umount lt mountdir gt Install IBMIT on SLES10 system 1 Ensure that you have the text mode browser w3m installed 2 Install the pam devel python openssl and python xml packages that are provided by the distro Chapter 2 Obtaining and running the IBMIT 9 3 Install IBMIT by running the following commands mount o loop t is09660 lt isofile gt lt mountdir gt rpm ivh lt mountdir gt suse noarch wui 4 1 1 noarch rpm lt mountdir gt suse noarch wui_core 4 1 1 noarch rpm lt mountdir gt suse ppc64 PAM authenticate 2 0 2 ppc64 rpm lt mountdir gt suse noarch systools 4 1 1 noarch rpm lt mountdir gt suse noarch sct pexpect 2 1 1 noarch rpm umount lt mountdir gt Install IBMIT on SLES11 sys
136. min kow_vios Partition Management View Modify Partitions View Modify System Properties VO Adapter Management e View Modify Virtual Ethernet Virtual Storage Management View Modify Virtual Storage IVM Management View Modify User Accounts View Modify TCP IP Settings Guided Setup System Plan Management Manage System Plans Service Management Electronic Service Agent Service Focal Point eM e Serviceable Events Service Utilities Create Serviceable Event Manage Dumps Collect VPD Information Updates Backup Restore SI Ba Edit my profile Help L View Modify Virtual Storage Virtual Disks Optical Tape Storage Pools Physical Volumes Physical Optical Devices Virtual Optical Media You can assign virtual optical media such as an ISO image directly to a partition to use for storage Select the virtual optical media then select the task that you want to perform You can also extend the size of the media library or delete an existing media library Media library size 17 93 GB 16 82 GB Available Extend Library Delete Library D x Add Media Download Delete Select Name Assigned Partition Mount Type Size Me IBMIT iso Read only 1 11 GB Physical Tape Devices No devices Figure 135 ISO image added 6 Select the LPAR with the virtual CD DVD device yo
137. mplete or in an invalid format The gateway must follow the format 0 255 0 255 0 255 0 255 Examples of valid addresses are 10 0 0 1 192 168 3 1 BRLCSO0010E Invalid DNS server address The provided DNS server address is either incomplete or in an invalid format The DNS server address must follow the format 0 255 0 255 0 255 0 255 Examples of valid addresses are 10 0 0 5 192 168 5 3 BRLCSOO11E IP address already in use The IP address entered is already in use by another device Choose a different address and try again Chapter 8 Troubleshooting 149 BRLCS0012E There is already a subnet using the same physical interface No two subnets using the same physical network interface are allowed You tried to configure a new subnet on a network interface which already has a subnet configured The DHCP server configuration requires that in such cases the subnets are enclosed in a shared network declaration The tool currently does not support adding such statement but you can do it manually and run the tool afterwards Check the dhcpd conf man page for further details on adding shared network statements BRLCS0013E DHCP configuration file not available The wizard could not find the DHCP configuration file while trying to perform the operation Check the file availability and try again BRLCS0014E Could not write DHCP file s Check the log for details An unexpected error occurred while trying to write the DHCP configurati
138. n Add an exported path You can use the Server management window to add an export path An exported path is a directory that contains repositories in it and that is accessible in the network through an HTTP FTP or NFS server For example the exported path srv repositories could be accessible through an HTTP server at the URL http 192 168 1 54 repositories and might contain a SLES 10 SP3 the repository srv repositories sles10sp3 in it accessible at the URL http 192 168 1 54 repositories sles10sp3 To add an exported path follow these steps 1 On the Server Management window click Add to add a new repository 2 On Add a new repository select Add Exported Path 3 Enter the following information e Protocol Choose the network protocol used by the server that will make the export path accessible in the network Possible values are HTTP NFS or FTP e Path Choose the directory that will contain the repositories created at the exported path and that will be made accessible in the network by the HTTP FTP or NFS server e URL path Specify the path part of the URL that points to the exported path For example if the HTTP server makes the directory chosen above accessible at http 192 168 1 54 repositories then the URL path will be repositories If it made it available at http 192 168 1 54 my url path then the URL path would be my url path Chapter 5 Actions available on an installed system System tools 103
139. n Click Next 4 If you chose manual partitioning you will need to manually partition the disk Refer to the section Manually partitioning your disks on page 28 for details about accomplishing this task 18 Linux IBM Installation Toolkit User Manual Disk partitioning x dev sda capacity 10 24 GB free 1 03 GB Name Type Size Free sdal Pri 7 00 MB N A O sda2 Pri 94 00 MB 73 00 MB sda3 Pri 8 09 GB 7 53 GB sda4 Ext N A N A new3 N A 1 02 GB 1 02 GB blk2 N A 1 03 GB 1 03 GB Add Edit Delete Delete all Reset Quit Prev Next Current disk dev sda A Change F System prep ext3 ext2 N A swap N A M Point N A boot N A N A N A N A Format no no no no yes N A IBM Installation Toolkit for Linux on POWER 1 select the disk you wish to partition and click on Change 2 select a blank space blk and click on Add to create a partition on it 3 select a partition and click on Edit or Delete to edit or delete it 4 click on Delete all to remove all partitions 5 click on Reset i to restore the initial partitioning Figure 7 Manual disk partitioning Click Next 5 Configure the network for the installed system You will need to configure global network settings as well as a network interface Chapter 3 Actions available on a live system 19 IBM installation Toolkit for Linux on POWER Network settings for the in
140. n Install the dependency and try again BRLMT0033E Source architecture not supported The architecture of the Source machine is not supported by the Server Consolidation Tool The Source architectures supported are x86 i386 1486 i586 and i686 and x86_64 BRLMT0034E Source distro not supported The distribution of the Source machine is not supported by the Server Consolidation Tool The Source distributions supported are Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and its updates 1 2 3 4 5 and 6 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and its updates 1 2 and 3 SLES 9 and its service packs 1 2 3 and 4 and SLES 10 and its service packs 1 1U1 and 2 BRLMTOO35E There s no possible target distro to the current source The Server Consolidation Tool could not translate the Source distribution information to a Target distribution value Check if the Source distribution is one of the supported distros and try again BRLMTO036E No hosts defined in System Tools You need to first define hosts in Server Management in the main menu There is no Target machine candidate to migrate The user need to add at least one Target candidate to complete a migration To add a machine as a Target candidate use the Server Management Manage Client Systems of the System Tools main menu BRLMT0037E Target architecture not supported The architecture of the Target machine is not supported by the Server Consolidation Tool The Source architecture supported is PPC
141. n also be used to create and manage repositories with distros and IBM Installation Toolkit packages This tool has three basic parts e Setup Boot Server Use this option to set up a boot server with the IBM Installation Toolkit images After setting up a boot server other machines on the network can use these images to boot up the IBM Installation Toolkit instead of using an optical disk Copyright IBM Corp 2009 2010 75 e Setup Network Server Provides distribution management capabilities to System tools making it possible to add or delete repositories of Red Hat Enterprise Linux SLES distributions or IBM packages Manage Client Systems Manages clients that use the Network Boot feature of IBM Installation Toolkit This option allows you to add or remove client machines The figure below displays these options IBM Installation Toolkit for Linux on POWER System Tools Server Management Setup Boot Server EF Setup Network Server M Manage Client Systems lt Previous Figure 62 Server Management Main menu window Configure the boot server for IBM Installation Toolkit This tool configures your machine to work as a boot server for IBMIT This action allows client machines to boot the IBMIT from the network instead of needing to use the CD DVD ROM for it Note This tool currently works only on POWER machines If you want to configure an IBMIT boot server in other type of machine you can manually d
142. nal error try to restart the tool to fix the problem BRLCS0038W Configuration has been changed remember to click Apply changes at the main window to save your changes When the configuration is changed it is not immediately saved so you have to click Apply changes at the tool s main window to save the changes to the system BRLCS00391 No subnets registered No subnets are currently registered in the tool BRLCSO040E Could not write System Tools file s Check the log for details An error occurred and the configuration file could not be saved You can verify the application log for details on what may have caused the problem BRLCS0041I No subnets registered Add one to proceed The tool detected that there are no subnets registered In order to continue using the tool you have to register a new subnet BRLDB0001 DEBUG gt s This is a generic message used for debugging purposes only BRLDB0002 DEBUG s gt s This is a generic message used for debugging purposes only BRLDBOOOSE error when calling s s s at s line d This is a generic message used for debugging purposes only BRLDPOOO1E No partition selected Select a partition from the list presented 152 Linux IBM Installation Toolkit User Manual BRLDP0002E Invalid Partition Size Type an integer number greater than zero in the field Size to create the partition requested BRLDPOOOSE There is not enough space to create a new partition Th
143. ng FastStart process A fast start file has been found but cannot be used due to syntax errors in it Fast start installation will not be started BRLFSOO44E Linux distribution from FastStart file is not supported A fast start file has been found but has a not supported Linux distribution specified in it Fast start installation will not be started 156 Linux IBM Installation Toolkit User Manual BRLFSOO45E Wrong data in FastStart file MAC address in FastStart profile does not exist A fast start file has been found but does not have a MAC address specified in it Fast start installation will not be started BRLFSOO46E Network repository given in FastStart File is not valid A fast start file has been found but has an invalid network installation repository specified in it Fast start installation will not be started BRLFS0047E Disk info in FastStart file does not match target resources or there isn t enough space for an installation A fast start file has been found but either contains invalid disk info in it or there is not enough disk space to be used Fast start installation will not be started BRLHDO0001 Machine Type s You machine type has been detected as s BRLHD0002I LPAR Number s Your machine has been detected as an LPAR and its number is s BRLHDOOO3 LPAR not detected Your machine has not been detected as an LPAR BRLHDO004 Video Card s Your machine has a video card and it was detected as s
144. ning and error messages that may be displayed when running the IBM Installation Toolkit Error information and warning messages The message codes are presented in alphabetic order to make it easy to find Warning messages are used to inform you of errors that could potentially compromise the system functioning or security Error messages inform you of errors that could potentially compromise the system s functioning or security Information messages provide more information about items that could potentially cause problems These messages represent recoverable situations allowing you to diagnose and correct the problem BRLAUOOO1E Authentication failure The credentials entered were not accepted Try to enter a different user or password BRLAUO002E No password provided A password must be entered in the corresponding field BRLAUOOO3E No user provided A user must be entered in the corresponding field BRLAUOOO4E Internal error An internal error occurred Try to verify if the PAM installation is correctly working BRLAUOOOSE Not a valid user The user entered is invalid Try to enter a different user BRLAUOOOG6E No PAM module available to perform authentication Verify if your system has the python PAM module available and working For SLES11 systems make sure to have the python pam package installed BRLAUOOO7E Not able to identify Linux distribution installed The tool could not determine which Linux distribution is installed
145. nly migrates the DocumentRoot data specified in the Apache configuration files Alias data directories are not migrated by default Supported Linux distributions for migration Use this information to determine which Linux distributions are supported by the Server Consolidation tool The IBM SCT supports the following Linux distributions e i386 and x86 64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 GA U1 U2 U3 U4 U5 U6 U7 and U8 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 GA U1 U2 U3 and U4 SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 GA SP1 SP2 and SP3 SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 e PPC Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 U7 and U8 Chapter 5 Actions available on an installed system System tools 105 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 U4 and U5 SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP2 and SP3 SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 GA and SP1 You can only migrate between the same Linux distribution For example if the source machine has a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5U1 version installed the target machine can be versions Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5U3 or Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5U4 Using the Migration wizard These instructions describe how to use Migration wizard to migrate to a new machine Before performing any migration you first must set up and configure the network boot server and installation server using the System tools For instructions about how to configure these System tools services see Manage Linux installation repositori
146. ns to use the text mode Currently the IBM Installation Toolkit for Power supports two text browsers w3m and eLinks The w3m is the browser available on SuSE installed systems and on the IBM Installation Toolkit Live DVD The eLinks is the browser available on Red Hat Enterprise Linux installed systems In order to behave in a similar way both are customized by the IBM Installation Toolkit Navigating on text mode After you start the Welcome center it opens in the available text browser In order to navigate you can use the UP DOWN LEFT and RIGHT keys on the keyboard The navigation keys on eLinks jump between the links and fields On w3m the navigation keys control the cursor and you must put the cursor over a link or a field When the cursor is over a link you can press ENTER to go to its destination If the cursor is over a field you can press ENTER to change its status or edit At any moment if you want to close the text mode press Q Note If you run the Welcome Center in text mode in a target system running Red Hat you must quit the browser with the Exit Browser option in the Utilities subwindow q and Q cannot be used as shortcuts with ELinks Text mode differences Some steps of the wizards have instructions on the left side on graphical mode However in text mode due space limitations the instructions are folded You must select Show Instructions to view After you complete the view select Hide Instructions Ho
147. number of processing units present in the source system You can proceed issue and wish to go on anyway but be aware that things may not work properly in this scenario Quit Prev Next Figure 108 LPAR processor summary Note By default each virtual processor in the created LPAR uses one processor unit This value can be changed later through HMC or IVM directly If you agree with the warning message displayed click Next gt gt 7 Verify all the settings and click Next to create your LPAR Chapter 5 Actions available on an installed system System tools 123 LPAR Creator LPAR creation summary Source system info Hostname unknown IP address 9 8 234 141 Processing units 1 Memory 3162 MB Installation size 11098 MB New LPAR settings Hostname newlpar IP address 9 8 234 171 Processing units 1 Memory 1856 MB Disk size 11413 Quit Prev Next Check the source system and the new LPAR settings If you are sure this is what you want click on Next in order to create the new LPAR Figure 109 LPAR creator summary 8 Your LPAR has been created Click OK to close the window 124 Linux IBM Installation Toolkit User Manual LPAR Creator LPAR created The LPAR has been created and can now be used Click on OK in order to close this window Figure 110 LPAR created At this point you are redirected back to the migration window and will be able to use the newl
148. o be installed and the partitions to be deleted and formatted If you are sure this action is what you want click Next to start the installation process Chapter 3 Actions available on a live system 25 IBM installation Toolkit for Linux on POWER summary What will be installed Check the Linux installation Distro Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Update 7 and above settings and the IBM packages Profile Default you chose to install Also Distro media Network check the partitions which will IBMIT media CD DVD ROM be deleted and the ones which will be formated If you are IBM packages sure this is what you want To be DynamicRM IBMinvscout csm client csm core devices chrp base ServiceRM click on Next to start the installed diagela ibm java2 ppc sdk ibm java2 ppc64 sdk librtas Isvpd nmon installation process Please rsct core rsct core utils servicelog src note that THIS CANNOT BE Partitions UNDONE To be deleted none To be formated sda3 Quit Prev Next Figure 14 Summary 10 If you chose to install the Linux distro from CD DVD ROM you will be asked to insert the first disk to proceed 26 Linux IBM Installation Toolkit User Manual IBM installation Toolkit for Linux on POWER Insert CD DVD media Please insert the first disc of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Update 7 or above and click Next Please insert the requested to start the installation process CD DVD disc and click N
149. o it as described in the section Manually Prerequisites Before starting you must have the following items A TFTP server installed and working on your system e An IBMIT DVD or ISO image file To configure the boot server follow these steps 1 Select Setup Boot Server from the Server Management menu 76 Linux IBM Installation Toolkit User Manual IBM Installation Toolkit for Linux on POWER System Tools Server Management Setup Boot Server FF Setup Network Server M Manage Client Systems lt Previous Figure 63 Server management menu 2 Enter the following information e TFTP export path This directory is where the TFTP server hosts the files to be accessed through it Files related to the network boot feature of IBMIT will be copied to this location so that they can be accessed by client machines Make sure that your TFTP server is correctly configured to use this directory by looking at the TFTP server configuration file etc xinetd d tftp e IBMIT media source This field indicates where the IBMIT media will be available to be read CD DVD ROM drive or ISO image file Files needed to configure the boot server must be retrieved from the IBMIT media so this field is required Chapter 5 Actions available on an installed system System tools 77 IBM installation Toolkit for Linux on POWER Boot server setup parameters Parameters 1 type the path where the TFTP export path T
150. olkit on page 207 Prerequisites Before starting you must have the following items e Your system configured to act as an IBMIT boot server e DHCP server installed and working on your system You can configure the system to act as an IBMIT boot server using the tool Configure the boot server for IBM Installation Toolkit on page 76 This tool reads the DHCP server configuration file to retrieve the client machines present in it and writes it back to have the clients and subnets that have been added and modified in the tool properly configured to erase the ones that have been deleted as well as to update DHCP headers It also restarts 82 Linux IBM Installation Toolkit User Manual the DHCP server for changes to take effect and performs some configurations in the TFTP boot server Note that the DHCP configuration file will be updated only if actions are performed in the tool Otherwise it will remain untouched To start the tool click Manage Clients Systems on Server management menu IBM Installation Toolkit for Linux on POWER System Tools Server Management Setup Boot Server FF Setup Network Server M Manage Client Systems lt Previous Figure 69 Server Management Main menu window If there are clients in the DHCP configuration file that are not yet registered in the tool they will be listed and you will be asked if you want to import and automatically register them Select the c
151. on file to the filesystem Check the application log for further details BRLCSO015E Could not apply changes error restarting the DHCP service check the logs for details The DHCP service failed to restart Check the application log to see the DHCP error message BRLCS0016E Could not apply changes error performing backup of original DHCP file check the log for details An unexpected error occurred when the tool tried to make a backup copy of the DHCP configuration file Check the filesystem permissions and try again BRLCS0017E Could not apply changes error writing the System Tools clients file check the log for details An unexpected error occurred when the tool tried to make a backup copy of the DHCP configuration file Check the filesystem permissions and try again BRLCS0018W Invalid client s found in DHCP configuration file The tool encountered one or more hosts in the subnet that do not have a valid configuration which means they are missing a valid fixed address or hardware header You can manually edit the DHCP configuration file to fix the problem BRLCS0019E No client selected Choose at least one or click Skip to continue If you choose to import clients you have to select at least one of them Otherwise click Skip to continue without importing any clients BRLCS0020E Hostname already in use The hostname entered is already in use Try a different hostname BRLCS0021E MAC address already in use
152. optical device Select Name Current Media Current Media Size Mount Type Create Device Physical Tape Devices No devices Figure 129 Optical devices associated to the LPAR 6 Select Create Device A new virtual device will appear in the table Click OK to create it The window will close and you will return to the IVM main screen Appendixes 195 Partition Properties kow test2 3 General Memory Processing Ethernet Storage Met ET TS Physical Optical Devices No devices Virtual Optical Devices You can use virtual optical devices to mount and unmount media files such as an ISO image that are in your media library for use by the current partition Selected rows in the Virtual Optical Devices table represent those devices with assignments to the current partition and unselected rows represent devices that do not have an assignment to any partition To remove a device assignment for the current partition clear the selection for that device in the table To assign a device to the current partition select that device in the table Click Modify to change the mounted media for a specific optical device Select Name Current Media Current Media Size Mount Type Unknown1 None Modify Create Device Physical Tape Devices No devices Figure 130 New virtual optical device 7 On the IVM main screen select the LPAR
153. or Linux on POWER Network settings for the installed system Network card configuration 1 choose whether the MAC address AE B3 C4 FD 49 04 network interface associated to Configuration type z this network card will be Automatic disabled configured Le IP automatically DHCP or Netmask manually 2 if manually set the IP address netmask and Gateway Optional L the gateway IP for it Figure 9 Network settings for the installed system configure interface c Click Save to finish You can check the configuration of a network interface by selecting it and clicking Details Chapter 3 Actions available on a live system 21 IBM installation Toolkit for Linux on POWER Network settings for the installed system Network card configuration This shows the network card MAC address AE B3 C4 FD 49 04 details Click on OK to return Configuration type Automatic to the main network settings IP N A screen Netmask N A Gateway N A ut erev ex Figure 10 Network settings for the installed system check interface configuration Click OK to return to the Network setting window When you are finished configuring your network settings click Next 6 Choose the general settings for the installed system e Keyboard Language to be used for the keyboard e Mouse Mouse to be used e Language Language to be used on the installed system e Timezone Timezone to
154. ould not mount CD DVD drive The filesystem may have been changed and it was not possible to create the directory used for mounting the CD DVD media Try to reboot the IBMIT live system or perform a network based install BRLIWOO58E No valid Linux distribution CD DVD found No CD DVD media containing a suitable Linux distribution was found Make sure you inserted the correct media and that it is not corrupted BRLIWO0059I Packages on external repositories are not accessible due to connectivity issues It was not possible to connect to external repositories This may be caused by a firewall or a misconfigured network Check your network configuration to make sure the machine is able to connect to external sites BRLIWOO60E USB device does not contain a valid IBMIT media The USB device does not contain a valid IBMIT image The device content may have been changed or the IBMIT image was not generated correctly During image generation make sure to choose to include the IBM packages BRLIW0061E USB media cannot be used not able to retrieve UUID Could not retrieve partition UUID information from USB device Try to generate a new IBMIT image for the device BRLIW10011 No configured network interface The system s network is not configured which means you will not be able to perform network based installations Either configure the network or choose another installation type BRLIW1002I No CD DVD drive found The system does not hav
155. pending on your distro To start the tool follow these steps 1 Select Manage PowerVM Lx86 in the Install tools menu IBM Installation Toolkit for Linux on POWER Welcome Center Install Tools J Install IBM Packages in a Running System Manage IBM System p Application Virtual Environment for x86 Linux PowerVM Lx86 lt Previous Figure 41 Welcome Center menu Install Tools 2 In order to use this tool it is necessary to provide the PowerVM Lx86 installer Select the type of media where the installer is available Optical Disk ISO or Tarball Chapter 4 Actions available on an installed system Welcome Center 55 IBM Installation Toolkit for Linux on POWER PowerVM Lx86 installer retrieval Retrieval methods PowerVM Lx86 CD DVD L PowerVM Lx86 ISO image J PowerVM Lx86 tarball In order to go on the Power M Lx86 installer needs to be retrieved Choose the method to be used for that PowervM Lx86 CD DVD ISO image or tarball Note Power M Lx86 can be downloaded at http www ibm com developerworks linux Ix86 L Figure 42 Media type selection for PowerVM Lx86 Installer Click Next 3 If you selected ISO or Tarball on the previous step then browse through your files and click the PowerVM installer If you selected Optical Disk then choose the optical device where the installer is 56 Linux IBM Installation Toolkit User Manual IBM installation Toolkit for Linux on POWE
156. pplications will be displayed in your remot e browser but all non web based applications will be displayed in the text mode display Please choose one of the options below 1 Wizard mode performs installation 2 Wizard mode graphical using X 3 Rescue mode goes to terminal Option as A Accessing the user interface in text mode If you choose to use the live system user interface in text mode the text mode client will be opened and you will be asked to accept a self signed SSL certificate The following messages will be shown self signed certificate accept y n Bad cert ident 143 106 167 133 from localhost accept y n Press y to accept each of them and proceed to the user interface Accessing the user interface in graphical mode If you choose to use the live system user interface in graphical mode Mozilla Firefox will be opened and you may be asked to accept a self signed SSL certificate You need to accept it to proceed 8 Linux IBM Installation Toolkit User Manual Remotely accessing the user interface If you choose to use the live system user interface in text or graphical mode you will also be able to remotely access it In order to do that open Mozilla Firefox in any machine of your network and point it Live to https lt machine IP gt Replace lt machine IP gt by the machine IP address shown in the screen Mozilla Firefox may ask you to accept a self signed SSL certificate You need to
157. ption s An unknown internal error occurred BRLTPOOO3E BRLTPOOO2E Invalid key was required s An internal error occurred caused by an invalid key used on a mapping or sequence BRLTPOOO4E BRLTPOOO4E Unknown error r An unknown internal error occurred 184 Linux IBM Installation Toolkit User Manual BRLTPOOOSE Template ERROR s s An error occurred when building the HTML content from the template BRLTROOO1E Problem while sending data s to server An error occurred when sending data to the server BRLTROOO2E Problem packing data to send s An error occurred when packing data to send to the server BRLTROOOSE Problem to receiving data s from server An error occurred when receiving data from the server BRLTROOO4E Problem unpacking received data s An error occurred when unpacking the data received from the server BRLTROOOSE Could not connect to server s An error occurred when trying to connect to the TaskRunner server BRLTROOOGE Problem closing connection s An error occurred when trying to close a socket BRLTROOO7E OS Error s This is a generic message used for debugging purposes only BRLTROOOS8E Invalid request s The TaskRunner received the invalid request described BRLTROOOQE Socket Error s An error occurred when trying to create a socket BRLTROO10 I Run s with s arguments The given application has been started with the described arguments BRLTROO11E OS Error s An error occurr
158. r gt ppc cp lt mountdir gt boot imgl lt tftpdir gt ppc cp lt mountdir gt boot img2a lt tftpdir gt ppc cp lt mountdir gt boot img3a lt tftpdir gt ppc cp lt mountdir gt boot img4a lt tftpdir gt ppc 3 Copy the boot loader configuration files to the TFTP server cp lt mountdir gt etc yaboot_net conf lt tftpdir gt etc yaboot conf cp lt mountdir gt etc hardware txt lt tftpdir gt etc hardware txt 4 Umount the IBMIT media and you are finished umount lt mountdir gt Appendixes 207 Manually configuring a client machine for the IBMIT boot server This topic explains how to manually configure the IBMIT boot server to have a client machine booting from it If you prefer to do it automatically use the tool Manage client systems for the boot server on page 82 Prerequisites Before starting you must have the following items e Your system configured to act as an IBMIT boot server e DHCP server installed and working on your system e Basic knowledge on DHCP server configuration files syntax e The MAC address of the client machine You must configure the system to act as an IBMIT boot server as explained in Manually configuring the boot server for IBM Installation Toolkit on page 207 The network boot process works as follows The client machine broadcasts a boot request to the network The IBMIT boot server receives the request If the DHCP server in it is configured to answer boot
159. rary side to commit firmware to the permanent side or to reject the firmware that is in the temporary side Chapter 3 Actions available on a live system 33 IBM Installation Toolkit for Linux on POWER Select action System information 1 Choose an action to be Machine architecture POWER6BLADE performed and click Next Temporary firmware level EA340 095 Permanent firmware level EA350 038 Current firmware level EA340 095 from temporary Choose one of the following actions Update firmware in temporary side _ Commit firmware to permanent side Reject the firmware in the temporary side au o nee Figure 22 Firmware update main screen Updating firmware in the temporary side After you have accessed the tool you can update firmware in the temporary side Follow these steps 1 Select Update the firmware image in the temporary side and click Next 2 Browse the file system and select the firmware image file to be used If you prefer to use a firmware image contained in the IBMIT DVD click Load DVD to allow the system automatically look for the best firmware option for your machine 34 Linux IBM Installation Toolkit User Manual IBM Installation Toolkit for Linux on POWER Select firmware image If you want to use a firmware image from the the IBM Installation Toolkit CD DVD insert the media in the drive and click the button Load DVD Otherwise you may specify a firmware image in the filesys
160. ration You can see the progress of the operation After it is completed click Next to go on If any error happens you can click Prev to go back to the source machine connection parameters screen and try again IBM Installation Toolkit for Linux on POWER Source machine profile retrieval Retrieval progress Please wait while detailed E information about the source machine is being retrieved This Bownosning operation may take some time trying to connect to source machine connected to source machine client is running creating an RPC connection to source machine RPC connection created Cancel Quit Prev Next Figure 92 Getting the source profile 5 Verify the system type of the source machine and select the system type of the target machine to be installed from a list of options provided Chapter 5 Actions available on an installed system System tools 107 IBM Installation Toolkit for Linux on POWER Target machine type Machines type 1 choose the type of machine to Source machine type i686 be used as target for the Target machine type Powers 520 550 570 590 595 s migration process Quit Prev Next Figure 93 Selecting the target machine type The available system type options for the target machine are e POWERS 520 550 570 590 595 POWERS processor based blades e POWER6 520 550 570 575 POWER6 processor based blades e System i iSeries Click Next gt gt 6 Sele
161. rd usually padmin is the user name If you are using an HMC system provide the HMC IP user name and password usually hscroot is the user name If your IVM or HMC system uses an SSH port other than 22 then you can also set it here to the appropriate value Chapter 5 Actions available on an installed system System tools 117 LPAR Creator Systems access info Management system access info 1 enter the IP address SSH port IP address 9 8234187 number and root password to be used to access the source system See por which the new LPAR will be based User username on 2 enter the IP address SSH Password egeeeeee port number user and password to be used to access the HMC or IVM of the machine where the new LPAR will be created Figure 103 POWER management system access info When you are finished click Next gt gt Note If you are running a firewall on the management system machine make sure that it is not blocking the SSH port you just provided 3 If you are using an HMC system select the Managed System to hold the new LPAR and enter the information of the Managed System VIOS You must type the VIOS IP address SSH port number user name and password usually padmin is the user name If you are using an IVM managed system this step is automatically skipped 118 Linux IBM Installation Toolkit User Manual LPAR Creator Managed system selection Available managed systems 1 Choose
162. rder to build the best MPI library available Chapter 1 Introducing IBM Installation Toolkit v4 2 5 6 PAM authenticate Check authentication using PAM Pluggable Authentication Modules for WelcomeCenter and SystemTools powerpc utils sles10 addons Additional utilities for maintaining and servicing PowerPC systems on SLES10 ppc64 diag The Error Log Analysis tool provides automatic analysis and notification of errors reported by the platform firmware on IBM eServer pSeries systems pseries energy pSeries Energy Management daemon automatically manages Linux OS settings based on system power modes rsct core and rsct core utils The RSC packages provide the Resource Monitoring and Control RMC functions and infrastructure needed to monitor and manage one or more Linux systems sct pexpect Custom Python Expect module used by Server Consolidation tool sct post Server Consolidation tool Post Install scripts servicelog The Service Log package creates a database to store system generated events that may require service The package includes tools for querying the database sg3_utils devel This package contains the static sg3_utils library and its header files src SRC is a facility for managing daemons on a system It provides a standard command interface for defining undefining starting stopping querying status and controlling trace for daemons systools SystemTools provides a set of utilities for configuring a network
163. ries myrepo and will be accessible at http 192 168 1 54 repositories myrepo Distro The distro whose repository will be created Media Type Type of media that will be used as source to create the repository Depending on the chosen distro CD or DVD may be available Media Source Source where the files will be retrieved and copied to the repository The source can be a CD DVD ROM device or ISO files Chapter 5 Actions available on an installed system System tools 97 IBM Installation Toolkit for Linux on POWER Add new repository New repository configuration 1 select the exported path to be Exported Path jrepg htt 5 used 2 type the directory name i J drepa hip J to be created on it 3 select the Deco Name distro 4 the media type and 5 Distro IBM Installation Toolkit for Linux DVD s pre se the Media Type CD i aaa Jg exported path or 7 remove Media Source CD DVD ROM dev scd1 Je Berna ones Add exported path Remove exported paths _Quit Cancel _Prev _Next Figure 84 Setup Network Server Add new repository 3 If you chose ISO files browse the file system and select the ISO image files for the distro and media type CD or DVD you chose 98 Linux IBM Installation Toolkit User Manual IBM Installation Toolkit for Linux on POWER Add new repository Browse through the file system and select the ISO images for the chosen di
164. ry The URL provided as IBMIT packages repository is invalid Enter a valid URL to proceed BRLMT0130E No target machine selected You have to select a target machine to proceed with this operation BRLMT0131E No source machine selected You have to select a source machine to proceed with this operation Chapter 8 Troubleshooting 173 BRLMU0001W Firmware update disabled The Firmware update is disabled when the context does not permit this feature to be used This could happen while trying to update the firmware of an unsupported architecture BRLMU0002W Could not determine system s architecture The architecture of the machine running the IBM Installation Toolkit could not be automatically determined This probably means that you are running the system using an HMC machine If this is your case you should use the HMC s interface to perform the action BRLMUOOOSE Error fetching firmware information The wizard was not able to determine the system s firmware data This may be caused by a missing or incorrectly installed Isvpd package Try verifying if the package is correctly running on the system BRLMUOOO4E Permanent firmware running Firmware updates cannot be performed while the system is running with the firmware from the permanent side Reboot the system with the firmware from the temporary side and try again BRLMUOOOSE Could not mount CD DVD The wizard was not able to create the mount point directory in order to mount the IB
165. s TEE g 7 kow test6 Running es 1GB 1 0 4 0 02 Linux ppo64 o 8 kow mtk OPEN pa Eo 2 06 0 01 AA00E158 Firmware Days Figure 128 IVM main screen 3 Ensure the LPAR is shut down by clicking Shutdown A window with shutdown options will appear Choose Immediate as the shutdown type and click OK 4 On the IVM main window select the name of the LPAR in the table of partitions 5 Anew window appears Select Optical Tape Devices to see the optical CD DVD devices associated to the LPAR and then Virtual Optical Devices to expand the table of existing virtual devices 194 Linux IBM Installation Toolkit User Manual Partition Properties kow test2 3 General Memory Processing Ethernet Storage Optical Tape Devices Physical Optical Devices No devices v Virtual Optical Devices No devices You can use virtual optical devices to mount and unmount media files such as an ISO image that are in your media library for use by the current partition Selected rows in the Virtual Optical Devices table represent those devices with assignments to the current partition and unselected rows represent devices that do not have an assignment to any partition To remove a device assignment for the current partition clear the selection for that device in the table To assign a device to the current partition select that device in the table Click Modify to change the mounted media for a specific
166. s BRLMT0043E ERROR Could not migrate the file s Problems trying to migrate the given file from Source to Target machine Check the log files for more information BRLMT0044E Not able to load config file s Cannot load configuration file Check the configuration file content BRLMT0045 I Loaded s from s Status message Loaded client consolidation application module BRLMTOO46E Not able to load s from module s Error loading client consolidation application module BRLMT0047E Not suitable interpreter for s Couldn t find a valid interpreter for the given rule BRLMTOO48E Error returned from code START OF CODE s EOF CODE Error returned while trying to fetch information from the Source machine Check the error message for mode details BRLMT0049 I Opening port s on the firewall Status message Opening the required ports in the firewall so the server consolidation tool can run properly BRLMTO0050I Closing port s on the firewall Status message Closing the server consolidation tool and cleaning firewall rules BRLMTOO51E Program aborted by signal s Client consolidation application aborted unexpectedly Check the error message for details on the cause BRLMT0052I Starting RPC Server on port s Status message Starting the client consolidation application RPC Server BRLMT0053E Config file not found Aborting Config file not found 168 Linux IBM Installation Toolkit User
167. s displayed in italic Copyright IBM Corp 2009 2010 V vi Linux IBM Installation Toolkit User Manual Part 1 Installing Linux with the IBM Installation Toolkit The IBM Installation Toolkit for Linux IBMIT provides a set of tools and functions that simplifies the TM installation of Linux on IBM Power Systems Copyright IBM Corp 2009 2010 2 Linux IBM Installation Toolkit User Manual Chapter 1 Introducing IBM Installation Toolkit v4 2 The IBM Installation Toolkit for Linux provides a set of tools that simplifies the installation of Linux The toolkit gives you access to the IBM value added software necessary to fully use the capabilities of the Power platform Note This manual does not reflect all of the technical changes for IBM Installation Toolkit for Linux version 4 2 The final documentation will be delivered online at http www14 software ibm com webapp set2 sas f lopdiags installtools home html The toolkit can also be used as a bootable rescue DVD to run diagnostic tools and repair previously installed operating systems You can also access IBM documentation for configuring and managing Linux The toolkit is provided as a bootable ISO image that can be burned on a DVD boot servers from DVD drive or stored on a network boot server boot servers from network After booting the server you will be prompted to run the Welcome Center the toolkit s main application This application provides a central
168. s not valid An invalid IP address has been specified to access the source system Specify one to proceed A valid IP address could be 192 168 1 54 for example 162 Linux IBM Installation Toolkit User Manual BRLLCOO20E No source system port number specified An port number has not been specified to access the source system Specify one to proceed BRLLC0021E Source system port number is not valid An invalid port number has been specified to access the source system Specify one to proceed A valid port number is an integer between 0 and 65535 BRLLC0022E Source system root password not specified A root password has not been specified to access the source system Specify one to proceed BRLLC0023E No management system IP address specified An IP address has not been specified to access HMC or IVM management system Specify one to proceed BRLLC0024E Management system IP address is not valid An invalid IP address has been specified to access the HMC or IVM management system Specify one to proceed A valid IP address could be 192 168 1 54 for example BRLLCO0025E No management system port number specified A port number has not been specified to access the HMC or IVM management system Specify one to proceed BRLLCO0026E Management system port number is not valid An invalid port number has been specified to access the HMC or IVM management system Specify one to proceed A valid port number is an integer between 0 and 65535 B
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170. se Linux 4_7 has been started by the Setup Network Server it will be added to the task monitor and will be shown like this window Chapter 6 Actions available on both systems 141 IBM Installation Toolkit for Linux on POWER Tasks overview Tasks name RHEL4 8 SLES11 1 SLES10 2 RHEL4_7 description Repository creation for RHEL4 8 Repository creation for SLES11 1 Repository creation for SLES10_ 2 Repository creation for RHEL4 7 Quit Cancel Details Clear not active tasks state Completed Canceled Interactive 1 Running duration 1m28s 1m08s 1Im12s 24s 1 Choose a task in the table and click on Cancel in order to cancel it or 2 click on Details in order to see the its details screen or 3 click on Clear not active tasks in order to remove the no longer active tasks from the table Figure 126 Task monitor tasks overview window Canceling a task You can cancel a task by selecting it and clicking Cancel Removing tasks that are no longer active from the list If you click Clear not active tasks all the tasks that are no longer active Running Interactive or Paused are removed from the list Task details You can select a task in the list and then click Details to view a screen with details about it The details screen is task dependent Each task implements its own details screen the way it prefers For instructions about a specific task details screen refer to the section whic
171. sented to a menu similar to this window IBM Installation Toolkit for Linux on POWER Welcome Center Install Linux Utilities Figure 1 Live system main menu On the Live system main menu you can select the following options e Install Linux opens the Install Linux function e Utilities opens the Utilities submenu Copyright IBM Corp 2009 2010 13 IBM Installation Toolkit for Linux on POWER Welcome Center Utilities Firmware Update BJ USB Image Creator MB Network Config Eject Media Reboot Machine lt Previous Figure 2 Live system utilities menu e Help opens the help and documentation submenu 14 Linux IBM Installation Toolkit User Manual IBM Installation Toolkit for Linux on POWER Welcome Center Help _ Register at IBM Web Site 2 Browse Additional Linux on POWER Documentation lt Previous Figure 3 Live system help menu Install a Linux distro This tool installs Linux on your machine as well as installing IBM software To learn about the supported Linux distributions supported hardware and IBMIT software available refer to the section Chapter 1 Introducing IBM Installation Toolkit v4 2 on page 3 Note This manual does not reflect all of the technical changes for IBM Installation Toolkit for Linux version 4 2 including LVM partitioning and Driver disks The final documentation will be delivered online at http
172. settings e File system Specify the file system that the partition will use If this partition will be the first partition of the disk the file system must be prep e Format Specify if the partition will be formatted e Mount point Specify where the partition will be mounted for example or boot Note that you cannot change the size of an existing partition Chapter 3 Actions available on a live system 31 IBM Installation Toolkit for Linux on POWER Disk partitioning Settings for partition sda2 1 choose the file system you File system ext3 3 wish the partition to use if you change the file system the Format no s partition will be formated Mount point boot whether you choose it or not 2 choose whether the partition will be formated or not 3 set a mount point for the partition Cancel Apply rit erev exe Figure 20 Partitioner edit a previously existing partition 3 Click Apply to finish Deleting partitions On the Partitioner main window select the partition you want to delete and click Delete If you want to delete all partitions at the same time click Delete all Reseting the partitioning scheme On the Partitioner main window click Reset to discard all your modifications and reset the partitioning scheme Updating your firmware This tool updates the firmware of your machine The IBMIT media comes with many firmware images that may be used for updating
173. st select at least one valid Driver Update Disk No Driver Update Disk was selected You must select one to proceed BRLLCOOO1E Error creating storage pool During the LPAR creation process an error occurred when trying to create the storage pool Check the log at var log wui for details and verify if the HMC or IVM management system is properly configured BRLLCOOO2E There is no MAC address information set up A MAC address has not been passed to the DHCP module BRLLCOOO3E There is no IP address information set up An IP address has not been passed to the DHCP module BRLLCOOO4E There is no hostname information set up A hostname has not been passed to the DHCP module BRLLCOOO5SE There is a entry with same hostname in DHCP configuration file The passed hostname is already used for another machine in the DHCP configuration file Chapter 8 Troubleshooting 161 BRLLCOO06E There is a entry with same MAC address in DHCP configuration file The passed MAC address is already used for another machine in the DHCP configuration file BRLLCOOO7E Error while adding the new host to DHCP configuration file There was a problem when trying to add a new host to DHCP configuration file BRLLCOO08E Error while updating or restarting DHCPD There was an error when restarting the DHCP server Check if it is installed and properly configured BRLLCOO10E Unable to list available storage pools The storage pools on the VIOS could not be listed
174. stallation Toolkit for Linux on POWER Configuring the boot server The boot server setup process has been started and is running in background Its progress 1 click on OK to go to main can be seen in task monitor at any time under the task name IBMITBOOT or right now by menu or 2 click on Monitor clicking on Monitor progress progress to see the boot server setup progress in task monitor OK Monitor progress Figure 67 Boot server configuration process running in background Chapter 5 Actions available on an installed system System tools 81 IBM Installation Toolkit for Linux on POWER task IBMITBOOT Boot server setup progress Copying IBM Installation Toolkit for Linux DVD 1 1 This is the details screen for lt lt 1217200 ick ov Show all tasks in order to go FAN IAG O7 to the tasks overview screen Cancel Quit Show all tasks Figure 68 Boot server configuration process task monitor screen Manage client systems for the boot server Manage client systems tool provides an easy way to register and unregister client machines that are permitted to use the Network Boot feature These client machines can then boot IBMIT by using the network from this boot server Note This tool currently works only on POWER machines If you want to use an IBMIT boot server configured in other type of machine you can manually do it as described in the section the boot server for IBM Installation To
175. stalled system Global network settings 1 set a hostname and DNS Fully qualified hostname BMIT Linux localdomain id aay cate each of your network cards for the installed system by selecting it in the table and DNS server Optional Network cards _ MAC Address Link Configuration clicking on Configure 3 see AE B3 C4 FD 49 04 Up Automatic the configuration details for a AE B3 C4 FD 49 05 Down Disabled network card by selecting it and clicking on Details Configure Details Quit Prev Next Figure 8 Network settings for the installed system To configure your global settings enter the following information e Fully qualified hostname The hostname to be used in the installed system e DNS server Optionally the IP address of the DNS server to be used in the installed system To configure your network interface follow these steps a On the Network configuration main screen select the interface you want to configure and click Configure b Enter the following information e Configuration type Choose whether the interface will be Disabled Automatic ally DHCP or Manual ly configured e IP For manual configuration type the IP address to be used e Netmask For manual configuration type the netmask to be used e Gateway Optionally for manual configuration type the IP address of the gateway to be used 20 Linux IBM Installation Toolkit User Manual IBM Installation Toolkit f
176. stro and media type Location ISO image files Browse Name im isos ni bin E boot m dev i etc En home ii lib En lib64 ni media En mnt E opt im proc En root eye ee ee Gel Pet Pet Pel Pet pel Quit Cancel Prev Next Figure 85 Setup Network Server choose ISO image files 4 Confirm the chosen options and click Next to start the repository creation process Chapter 5 Actions available on an installed system System tools 99 IBM Installation Toolkit for Linux on POWER Add new repository Please confirm the information and click Next 1 Confirm the repository New repository summary information 2 Click on Next Destination srv rhel4 Distro Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Update 8 Media Type DVD Media mnt nfs distros redhat ppc ISO rhel 4 u8 RHEL4 U8 re20090504 0 Source ppc AS DVD ftp iso _Prev Nat Cancel gut prev nex Figure 86 Setup Network Server confirm repository creation The process will take place in background and can be followed in the Task Monitor at any time 100 Linux IBM Installation Toolkit User Manual IBM Installation Toolkit for Linux on POWER Repository is being created The repository creation has been started and is running in background Its progress can be 1 click on OK to go back to seen in task monitor at any time under the task name RHEL4_8 or right now by clicking on repository manager or 2 cli
177. system inoperable Yes am sure UPDATE FIRMWARE IN TEMPORARY SIDE 1 Review the action selected and click Next to apply it Figure 24 Firmware update updating firmware in the temporary side Committing firmware to the permanent side After you have successfully rebooted your machine with the firmware update on the temporary side you can commit the firmware to the permanent side 1 Select Commit firmware to permanent side from the main and click Next 2 You are warned that this operation cannot be undone To proceed click Yes I am sure COMMIT FIRMWARE TO PERMANENT SIDE 36 Linux IBM Installation Toolkit User Manual IBM Installation Toolkit for Linux on POWER Summary System information Machine architecture POWER6BLADE Temporary firmware level EA340 095 Permanent firmware level EA350 038 Current firmware level EA340 095 from temporary 1 Review the action selected and click Next to apply it Action details Action Commit firmware to permanent side WARNING The system WILL be rebooted Wait until the flash process has completed This can be anywhere from 2 minutes to 20 minutes or more depending on the system The op panel display will show that the system is flashing Failure to wait may render a system inoperable Yes am sure COMMIT FIRMWARE TO PERMANENT SIDE Figure 25 Firmware update committing to the permanent side Rejecting the firmware in the temporary side
178. t be set by the backend The tool s backend was not able to set its environment Try to start the operation over from the beginning BRLPV0052E Verification error The tool s backend returned a verification error BRLPVO0053 I The ISO image for s could not be found Please enter its path and press OK The given ISO image could not be found Enter the correct path for the image in order to proceed with the operation BRLPV0054I Please insert the disc s and press OK Insert the given disc in order to proceed with the operation BRLPVO0055l A disc could not be found in drive Please ensure there is a disc in it and press Retry after the drive light stops blinking No disc could be found in drive Make sure there is a disc inserted and that it is not corrupted BRLRGOOO1E Network not configured The network is not properly configured Configure the network in order for the IBM Installation Toolkit to be able to direct you to the IBM registration web site BRLRKOOO1E Invalid or missing task The application could not be launched because it was not specified or is invalid 178 Linux IBM Installation Toolkit User Manual BRLRKOOO2E Missing previous URL The application could not be launched because the previous URL argument was not specified BRLRKOOO3E Missing previous Name The application could not be launched because the previous name argument was not specified BRLRKOOO4E Communication error with launcher s Th
179. t select the partition or partitions and then select the task O Adapter Management System Overview VewiM Virtual Ethernet Total system memory 8GB Total processing units 4 Virtual Storage Management Memory available 32 MB Processing units available 0 View Modify Virtual Storai Reserved firmware memory 480 MB Processor pool utilization 0 13 3 2 System attention LED Active A IVM Management Partition Details View Modify User Accounts Vewl Modify TCP IP Settings EC m R Guided Setup G Create Partition Activate Shutdown More Tasks js System Plan Management Select ID Name Uptime Memory Processors Entitled Utilized Reference Pr ing Units Processing Code Processing Unts Code Manage System Plans Manage System Plans IE Units Service Management Running 816 g 1 kow vios 512MB 4 0 4 0 03 Electronic Service Agent ra alors y Days Service Focal Point Manage Serviceable Events ad 2 06 Service Utilities a 2 kow test1 Running Days 1GB 1 0 4 0 02 Linux ppc64 Create Serviceable Event E Manage Dumps M a kow test2 Not Activated 168 la 04 00000000 z Collect VPD Information 1 08 Updates kow test3 Running Da 1GB 2 0 6 0 03 Linux ppc64 Backup Restore e Logs OD 5 kow test4 Running Is wes k2 06 0 01 SuSE Linux Monitor Tasks Days Hardware Inventory es OD 6 kow tests OPen fab G5 2 06 0 01 AAQOE158 Firmware Day
180. t server on page 82 e Create an IBM Installation Toolkit bootable USB key on page 127 e Configuring the boot method to be used by the system on page 203 virtual CD DVD devices to an LPAR on pag e Associating an ISO image to a virtual CD DVD device of an LPAR on page 196 Booting from CD DVD ROM To boot from a DVD disk follow these steps 1 Burn the IBMIT ISO image onto a DVD disk 2 Ensure the IBMIT DVD disk is in the CD DVD ROM drive of the machine you want to boot 3 Restart the system or power it on 4 Configure the system to boot from the CD DVD ROM drive and proceed Booting from the ISO image directly This type of boot is possible only with LPARs that can have virtual CD DVD devices assigned to it To boot directly from the IBMIT ISO image follow these steps 1 Create anew CD DVD virtual device and assign it to the LPAR you want to boot with IBMIT 2 Associate the IBMIT ISO image with that CD DVD virtual device 3 Restart the LPAR or power it on 4 Configure the LPAR to boot from the CD DVD virtual device and proceed Booting from the network To boot IBMIT from the network follow these steps 1 Configure a network boot server for IBMIT 2 Configure the boot server for the machine to boot from it Copyright IBM Corp 2009 2010 7 3 Restart the system or power it on 4 Configure the system to boot from the network interface and proceed Booting from USB To boot IBMIT from a USB key fol
181. t the contents differently Figure 16 Installation progress Manually partitioning your disks This topic explains how to manually partition your disks to have Linux installed on them Note e This version of IBMIT does not support partitions under LVM e All of your LVM partitions will be erased in a SLES installation e NPIV and Multipath are not supported e You can use RAID by manually configuring it in the IBMIT recovery console before running the Linux installation tool You can use iprutils namely iprconfig iprdbg iprdump iprinit and iprupdate Refer to the section Using the IBMIT recovery console on page 40 to learn how to use the IBMIT recovery console If there is more than one disk the partitioner main screen will show them in the Current disk field In order to see the partitions of a disk select it and click Change If there is only one disk it will be used by default For each disk its partitions are listed For each partition there are columns as follows e Name The partition name Previously existing partitions have names that start with sd New partitions start with new Blank space slots start with bik e Type The partition type It indicates if the partition is Pri mary Log ical or Ext ended e Size The partition size e Free How much free space the partition has 28 Linux IBM Installation Toolkit User Manual e ESystem The file system the partition will use e M Point Where the p
182. t use the special RedHat theme and warn you about the non existence of a configuration file for itself It uses the default configuration though Use Red Hat Enterprise Linux configuration center to correct this warning e When rebooting for the first time Red Hat Enterprise Linux yaboot might not work automatically You may need to press Enter at the prompt boot e When doing a SLES 10 installation if automatic configuration was chosen for the network interfaces and the network repositories reside in different networks than the one of the systems being installed then during first boot Yast might present a warning box saying that it was unable to access the repositories This warning box can be safely skipped so the installation process can continue e If the migration of a user data fails when performing a System X to System P LAMP stack migration the tool reports an error stating mysql server migration failed e The System x to System p migration wizard only automatically migrates data under the DocumentRoot of the web server Custom directories with data that also need to be migrated must be manually migrated through the manual data migration functionality of this tool Directories such as users custom web server directories must be manually included into a migration plan e The supported System i systems can be booted only from the DVD drive if it has been virtualized virtual DVD devices over the VSCSI interface For more information a
183. tabases and so on Network connectivity is not required between the source and target machines if the transfer of these files is not wanted that is if you have not selected the options to migrate LAMP data and User data In that case the tool provides a clean installation of the LAMP stack At a minimum both the source and target machines must have network connectivity to the Network Server machine Performing a migration Before starting a migration you should understand some special characteristics of the tool e The IBM SCT assumes that there is only one single disk in the target machine that fits the entire file system to be migrated from source e If the sum of x86 partitions size is bigger than the available disk on POWER machine the migration will fail e The IBM SCT cannot migrate x86 LVM and RAID partitions If the source system has an LVM the migrator creates a physical partition on target system with the size of the LVM e The IBM SCT migrates only official packages from the Linux distributions of the source machine If there is any application that was installed manually or not the official version of the application the IBM SCT either does not migrate the application or installs the version distributed in the distro e The IBM SCT does not migrate users passwords e The root password of the target machine is passwOrd note the zero instead of o After the first access you should change this password e The IBM SCT o
184. tem 1 Ensure that you have the text mode browser w3m installed 2 Install the python pam and python xml packages that are provided by the distro 3 Install IBMIT by running the following commands mount o loop t is09660 lt isofile gt lt mountdir gt rpm ivh lt mountdir gt suse noarch wui 4 1 1 noarch rpm lt mountdir gt suse noarch wui_core 4 1 1 noarch rpm lt mountdir gt suse ppc64 PAM authenticate 2 0 2 ppc64 rpm lt mountdir gt suse noarch systools 4 1 1 noarch rpm lt mountdir gt suse noarch sct pexpect 2 1 1 noarch rpm umount lt mountdir gt Starting and accessing the Welcome Center After the packages are installed the next step is to start the IBMIT Welcome Center If the system was installed with support for the X Window System then you can access the Welcome Center by clicking on the desktop icon or using system s menu Otherwise you will always be able to run the Welcome Center in the shell by issuing the following command welcomecenter The Welcome Center is started along with a text mode browser Then you are asked to accept a self signed certificate Click y At this point you can choose either to access the Welcome Center using the text mode already opened or using the graphical mode In order to use the graphical mode open a Mozilla Firefox browser in your machine and point it to the address https lt machine IP gt 4234 where lt machine IP gt is the IP address or host name of the ser
185. tem from the box below Note that only RPM packages and raw data files are 1 Browse the filesystem and find a firmware image file 2 If you Jasa want to use a firmware from the 5 IBM Installation Toolkit media click Load CD DVD 3 When file _Load CD DVD is selected click Next to proceed Location All files _Y Browse 1 Name fm _ 9 anaconda templates E bin ii dev mm etc ii home initrd i lib x Quit Prev Next Figure 23 Firmware update updating firmware in the temporary side 3 Confirm the list and start the operation by clicking Yes I am sure UPDATE FIRMWARE IN TEMPORARY SIDE Do not try to restart or turn off the machine during the process This action may render the system inoperable Chapter 3 Actions available on a live system 35 IBM installation Toolkit for Linux on POWER summary System information Machine architecture Temporary firmware level Permanent firmware level Current firmware level Action details POWER6BLADE E340_095 E350_038 E340 095 from temporary Action Update firmware in temporary side Firmware file 01EL340 101 039 rpm Firmware location tmp WARNING The system WILL be rebooted Wait until the flash process has completed This can be anywhere from 2 minutes to 20 minutes or more depending on the system The op panel display will show that the system is flashing Failure to wait may render a
186. the x86 World installation process Settings 1 choose the set of packages Installation profile MIN A to be installed in the x86 Linux distro MIN or FULL 2 choose Media source ISO images z the media source to be used Media type DVD sl for the installation optical disks or ISO images 3 choose the media type to be used CD l or DVD if both are available Quit Prev Next Figure 47 Settings for PowerVM Lx86 Installation x86 World 4 If you selected ISO images then browse through your files select the ISO image files required to install the x86 World Linux distro If you selected Optical disks then select which optical device you want to use Chapter 4 Actions available on an installed system Welcome Center 61 IBM Installation Toolkit for Linux on POWER x86 World media source selection Required medias Browse through the files and Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 5 Update 3 DVD number 1 select the ISO image files for the listed required medias Location tmp isos ISO image files Browse Name O im M RHELS5 3 Server 20090106 0 i386 DVD iso Quit Prev Next Figure 48 Settings for PowerVM Lx86 Installation x86 World media location Click Next 5 Fill out the registration form All the fields that are marked with must be filled before proceeding 62 Linux IBM Installation Toolkit User Manual IBM Installation Toolkit for Linux on POWER Registration
187. to you Information concerning non IBM products was obtained from the suppliers of those products their published announcements or other publicly available sources IBM has not tested those products and cannot confirm the accuracy of performance compatibility or any other claims related to non IBM products Questions on the capabilities of non IBM products should be addressed to the suppliers of those products Any references in this information to non IBM Web sites are provided for convenience only and do not in any manner serve as an endorsement of those Web sites The materials at those Web sites are not part of the materials for this IBM product and use of those Web sites is at your own risk This information contains examples of data and reports used in daily business operations To illustrate them as completely as possible the examples include the names of individuals companies brands and products All of these names are fictitious and any similarity to the names and addresses used by an actual business enterprise is entirely coincidental Trademarks IBM the IBM logo and ibm com are trademarks or registered trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation in the United States other countries or both If these and other IBM trademarked terms are marked on their first occurrence in this information with a trademark symbol and these symbols indicate U S registered or common law trademarks owned by IBM at the tim
188. tools Besides sysdiag and many IBM RAS tools Isvpd ofpathname bootlist and so on you can use 1000 Linux applications These applications include system shells bash sh line editing utilities sed awk text editors Linux partitioners fdisk sfdisk mount umount applications chroot archivers tar gzip gunzip and a python interpreter For a complete list of applications available you can either type TAB key twice on system shell or check the following directories on a system booted with the Toolkit e sbin e usr sbin e usr local sbin e root bin 40 Linux IBM Installation Toolkit User Manual e usr local bin e usr bin e usr X11R6 bin e bin All of these applications have their own documentation They can be found at the Web site http www linuxmanpages com Most of these applications have a built in help which serves as a quick reference for common used options In general this built in help can be accessed by giving a help argument to any command for example mount help but this action may vary from application to application Note While running the recovery console you can access the Welcome Center at any time by typing welcomecenter If you want to leave the Welcome Center and return to the console type q Chapter 3 Actions available on a live system 41 42 Linux IBM Installation Toolkit User Manual Chapter 4 Actions available on an installed system Welcome Center On an installed
189. ts to a file The provided path cannot be used because it already exists on the system Enter a new path name that either is an empty directory or does not exist on the system 176 Linux IBM Installation Toolkit User Manual BRLPVO033E Home directory must exist s The home directory entered does not exist on the system Make sure to provide a home directory that is available on the system BRLPVOO34E Missing medias or incorrect labeling You have selected a number of ISOs which is less than the quantity needed Select a number of ISOs that corresponds to the distro and media type chosen BRLPVOO35E Error accessing the PowerVM Lx86 media An error occurred when accessing the PowerVM Lx86 media Make sure the media selected is correct and it is not corrupted BRLPVOOS36E Error calling the script for retrieving PowerVM Lx86 media An internal error occurred when calling the script for retrieving the PowerVM Lx86 media Try to start the operation over from the beginning BRLPV0037E Not a valid PowerVM Lx86 media The PowerVM Lx86 media provided is not valid Make sure you selected the correct media and it is not corrupted BRLPVOO38E The field s cannot be empty The given field cannot be empty Make sure to fill it to proceed BRLPV0039E The field s is not valid The information entered in the given field is in an invalid format Make sure to enter a valid information BRLPVO040 Error registering the s field s
190. u want the ISO image to be assigned to and click OK Appendixes 201 Integrated Virtualization Manager Welcome padmin kow_vios Edit my profile Help Log out Partition Management Modify Media Partition Assignment View Modify Partitions You can modify the partitions to which the media is assigned by selecting the appropriate virtual View Modify System optical devices Read only media may be assigned to more than one device Properties WO Adapter Management View Modify Virtual Ethernet Virtual Storage Management Media name IBMIT iso View Modify Virtual Storage IVM Management View Modify User Accounts Select Partition Device Current Media Current Partition State View Modify TCP IP O kow test3 4 vtoptO None Running Only partitions containing virtual optical devices are listed Use the optical tab in the partition properties task to create virtual optical devices Media type Read only are ei O kow test4 5 vtoptl None Running System Plan Management B kow test5 6 vtopt2 None Open Firmware Manage System Plans O kow test6 7 vtopt3 None Running Service Management v kow test2 3 vtopt4 None Not Activated Electronic Service Agent 0 kow test1 2 vtopt6 None Running gt T RE O kow mtk 8 vtopt7 None Open Firmware Events IEL kow test4 5 vtopt8 None Running Service Utilities Create Serviceable Event ok Cancel Manage D
191. ually creating a network installation repository 208 Notices 211 Trademarks e 212 iii V Linux IBM Installation Toolkit User Manual About this guide This manual is intended for system network administrators of POWER systems who would like to install Linux update firmware or execute diagnostics recovery tools on their machines This edition applies to version 4 2 of the IBM Installation Toolkit for Linux formerly IBM Installation Toolkit for Linux on POWER and to all subsequent releases and modifications until otherwise indicated in new editions Note This manual does not reflect all of the technical changes for IBM Installation Toolkit for Linux version 4 2 The final documentation will be delivered online at http www14 software ibm com webapp set2 sas f lopdiags installtools home html Release Notes IBM Installation Toolkit release notes can be found on the root directory of the DVD and at http www 14 software ibm com webapp set2 sas f lopdiags installtools home html Support You can find support information at http wWww 128 ibm com developerworks forums dw_forum jsp forum 937 amp cat 72 Conventions In this manual IBM Installation Toolkit and IBMIT is an abbreviation of IBM Installation Toolkit for Linux Whenever this manual refers to a command a system file or directory it is displayed with monospaced font Whenever a word or term requires special emphasis it i
192. ubnet Subnet parameters 1 Enter the information in the Subnet address fields for the new subnet and Network mask click Add 2 You can edit the subnet headers by clicking Edit headers Gateway Optional DNS server 1 Optional DNS server 2 Optional Quit Edit headers Cancel Add Figure 74 Manage Clients System add new subnet 4 Optionally click Edit headers to specify DHCP configuration headers for the subnet Refer to the section Editing DHCP headers on page 90 to learn about this topic 5 Click Add to finish Note that if you do not click Apply changes the changes will not take effect Seq Applying changes on Editing a subnet You can edit a subnet from the Manage subnets window To edit a subnet follow these steps 1 Open the Subnets management menu by selecting Manage subnets from the main Client Systems Management menu You can also select Manage subnets when adding a new client or editing an existing client 88 Linux IBM Installation Toolkit User Manual IBM Installation Toolkit for Linux on POWER Subnets management Registered subnets 1 click Add in order to add a ___ IP Address Netmask Clients registered available new subnet 2 choose an 9 8 234 128 255 255 255 128 26 32 existing subnet and click Edit to modify or Delete to remove it 3 click Edit DHCP headers to control the headers of the DHCP con
193. ui create_usb_image log for details BRLUC1020E Error passing image source parameter to backend There was an internal error error passing image source parameter to backend Check the logs in var log wui create_usb_image log for details BRLUC1021E sfdisk not available on system The sfdisk utility is not available in the system Make sure sfdisk is properly installed BRLUC1022E Filesystem chosen is not supported Filesystem chosen is not supported Choose another filesystem BRLUC1023E Filesystem chosen is not supported MKFS utility not available on system Filesystem is not supported mkfs utility is not available on the system Choose another filesystem BRLUC1024E Provided image source is neither a block device nor a regular file Provided image is neither a block device nor a regular file Check the logs in var log wui create_usb_image log for details BRLUC1025l The ISO image provided is not valid Please enter the path for a valid s ISO and click OK The ISO provided is not valid Verify if you selected an ISO file and try again BRLUC1026l Please insert the s media in the drive and click OK Insert the requested media in the drive BRLUC1027I No media could be found in the drive Please make sure to insert it in the drive and click OK No media was found in the drive Insert a media and try again BRLWH0001E BRLWHOOO1E Inexistent wizard s This is a generic message used for debugging purposes only
194. umentation search database is having the specified document added to it BRLBEOOOQYI Search time 0 3fs The documentation search database has had one document added to it in the specified number of seconds BRLBEOO10I Indexed s documents in 0 3fs The documentation search database has been created in the specified number of seconds BRLBE0011I Saved base s The documentation search database has been created and writen at the specified file BRLBE0012E No deleted partitions file found The installer could not find a configuration file needed by the partitioner This may cause problems during the installation process BRLBE0013E Could not create the deleted partitions file The installer could not write a configuration file needed by the partitioner This may cause problems during the installation process BRLBEO014E Could not find a suitable installer for the distro provided s There is no installer associated with the distro The installation process cannot start 148 Linux IBM Installation Toolkit User Manual BRLBEOO15E Error adding alien repository s An external repository could not be added to the system Check if your network connection is configured and working BRLCSO0001E No hostname specified The hostname field was left blank You have to provide the hostname of the client BRLCS0002E Invalid hostname The hostname entered is invalid You must specify a valid hostname for the client information BRL
195. umps OK Cancel Collect VPD Information Updates Backup Restore amp Figure 136 Virtual CD DVD devices to be used The ISO image is now assigned to the virtual CD DVD device and can be accessed at the LPAR 202 Linux IBM Installation Toolkit User Manual Integrated Virtualization Manager Welcome padmin kow_vios Partition Management View Modify Virtual Storage View Modify Partitions View Modify System Virtual Disks Properties I O Adapter Management gt Physical Optical Devices View Modify Virtual Ethernet Virtual Storage Management Storage Pools Physical Volumes EKo ALETE Virtual Optical Media View Modify Virtual Storage You can assign virtual optical media such as an ISO image directly to a partition to use for storage Select the virtual optical media then select the task that you want to perform You can IVM Management gt mr are Ael also extend the size of the media library or delete an existing media library View Modify User Accounts a View Modify TCP IP Media library size 17 93 GB 16 82 GB Available Extend Library Delete Library Settings Guided Setu _ e System Plan Management B amp _ Add Media Modify partition assignment Download Delete Manage System Plans Select Name Assigned Partition Mount Type Size Service Management 0O IBMIT iso kow test2 3 vtopt4 Read only 1 11 GB Electronic
196. ution Minimal with X Installs all the packages included in Minimal but also installs the X Window System a graphical environment that runs on Linux This option is useful for servers that have a graphics card but still have storage space restrictions Default Installs the distribution s default package selection and provides a balance between disk usage and functionality Full Installs all of the package sets provided by the distribution Requires the most disk space but you should not need to install any other package in the future e Disk partitioning Choose to install Linux on an automatically partitioned disk or to use manual partitioning If you choose to use an automatically partitioned disk all data in it will be lost Note that NPIV and Multipath are not supported 16 Linux IBM Installation Toolkit User Manual IBM installation Toolkit for Linux on POWER Installation settings for the target system Settings 1 choose the Linux distro you Linux distribution Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Update 7 and 42 wish to be installed 2 choose A gt J a packages profile set of Installation Default More packages to be installed 3 profile info choose whether you will Disk partitioning Automatic on dev sda 2 partition your disk s by yourself or let it be automatically done Figure 5 Installation settings Click Next 3 Choose the installation sources Click Refresh sources to
197. validate the given path The IBM Server Consolidation Tool could not connect to the Source machine to verify if the path of an additional file exists or not Please check if the network of the Source machine is up and running and try again BRLMT0077E Migrating the given path would probably break the target system The path of the additional file inserted is not a valid path to migrate The following paths are considered not valid to migrate as additional file bin dev lib sbin proc usr boot etc initrd opt selinux sys and var BRLMT0078E Caught exception s Caught unexpected exception Check error message for more details BRLMT0079E Error getting remote system info Couldn t create the Source machine profile Unable to grab Source s information BRLMTOO80E Not able to unpickle profile Unable to serialize the profile from Source machine BRLMT0081E SSH login failed The IBM Server Consolidation Tool could not connect to a remote machine using SSH Check if the SSH server is up and running in the remote machine and try again 170 Linux IBM Installation Toolkit User Manual BRLMT0082E There s no root ssh dir in the client machine The IBM Server Consolidation Tools could find two possible problems First there is no root ssh directory in the Source machine Please create it and try again Second the Source machine public key has changed and the Network Server machine System Tools machine doesn t recogn
198. ve repository is not used by the system as a possible software source If you select one of the repositories you can Activate Inactivate or Remove an existing repository or add a new repository Those actions are described below 70 Linux IBM Installation Toolkit User Manual IBM Installation Toolkit for Linux on POWER Repository management Repositories currently installed 1 Click Add to include a new _ Name Resource State repository 2 If you want to delete IBM Installation Toolkit http 9 8 234 146 ppack RedHat RPMS active a repository select it and click ftp linuxpatch ncsa uiuc edu toolchain at at05 Remove 3 In order to activate 7 IBMIT Advance Toolchain jredhat RHELS active or inactivate a repository click Red Hat Enterprise Linux http 9 8 234 146 RHELSUSRC4 Server active Activate Inactivate Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Server ftp ftp redhat com pub redhat linux enterprise onte ppc Debug 5Server en os ppc Debuginfo ial Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Server ftp ftp redhat com pub redhat linux beta 5Server eee Beta ppc Debug Jen os ppc Debuginfo Quit Activate Inactivate Remove Add Figure 57 Repository management main screen Activating or inactivating a repository If you want to activate or inactivate a repository select it from the list and click Activate Inactivate Removing a repository If you want to remove a currently configured repository select it from the list and click Remove
199. ver where the Welcome Center was started The first time you use Firefox you will be asked to accept the self signed certificate Remember to accept it to proceed For information about how to use the Welcome Center on an installed system refer to Actions available on an installed system Welcome Center on page 43 Starting and accessing System tools After you have installed the necessary packages you can start and access the System tools To start System tools type the following command in the shell gt systemtools System tools function is then started and differently from Welcome Center there is only the graphical mode available In order to access it open a Mozilla Firefox browser in your machine and point it to the address https lt machine IP gt 8080 where lt machine IP gt is the IP address or host name of the server where System tools was started The first time you use Firefox you will be asked to accept the self signed certificate Accept it to proceed 10 Linux IBM Installation Toolkit User Manual For information about using System tools refer to Chapter 5 Actions available on an installed system System tools on page 75 Chapter 2 Obtaining and running the IBMIT 11 12 Linux IBM Installation Toolkit User Manual Chapter 3 Actions available on a live system After booting your machine with IBMIT you can work with the IBMIT Live System After you access the IBMIT Live System you will be pre
200. w 198 Linux IBM Installation Toolkit User Manual Add Media You may upload an optical media file from your local workstation specify an existing file in your home directory import from a physical optical device or create a blank media file Depending on the size of the file these operations may take several minutes Upload media O Add existing file Import from physical optical device Create blank media Media type Read only f Optical media file to upload tmp IBMIT iso Browse Ay The maximum file size to upload is 2 GB Figure 133 ISO image upload window Appendixes 199 Add Media You may upload an optical media file from your local workstation specify an existing file in your home directory import from a physical optical device or create a blank media file Depending on the size of the file these operations may take several minutes Upload media O Add existing file Import from physical optical device Create blank media Media type Read only Optical media file to upload tmp IBMIT iso j Browse Ay The maximum file size to upload is 2 GB LOK Cancel Figure 134 Add existing file window 5 The ISO image is added to the table Select it and click Modify partition assignment to assign it to a virtual CD DVD device of an LPAR 200 Linux IBM Installation Toolkit User Manual Integrated Virtualization Manager Welcome pad
201. w to get help from IBMIT community You can get help from the IBMIT community The IBM Installation Toolkit for Linux latest ISO image user s guide and everything else related to it may be found at http www 14 software ibm com webapp set2 sas f lopdiags installtools home html The IBM Installation Toolkit for Linux is provided as is only Customers are not entitled to IBM Software Support However they may submit questions and review technical information regarding the Toolkit at the following web forum www ibm com developerworks forums dw_forum jsp forum 937 amp cat 72 amp Copyright IBM Corp 2009 2010 193 Creating an assigning virtual CD DVD devices to an LPAR This topic explains how to create and assign a virtual CD DVD device to an LPAR as required to boot IBMIT directly from the ISO image To create and assign a virtual CD DVD device to an LPAR follow these steps 1 Access the web interface of the IVM of the machine that contains the LPAR you want to set up 2 On the left menu of IVM main window click View Modify Partitions and in table of partitions LPARs that appears select the one where you want to create the new CD DVD virtual device Integrated Virtualization Manager Welcome padmin kow_vios Edit my profile Help Log out Partition Management View Modify Partitions View Modify Partitions View Modify System Properties To perform an action on a partition firs
202. y created LPAR as your migration target Chapter 5 Actions available on an installed system System tools 125 126 Linux IBM Installation Toolkit User Manual Chapter 6 Actions available on both systems Some actions are available both in the live and in the installed systems Create an IBM Installation Toolkit bootable USB key This tool creates an IBMIT bootable USB key You can use the USB key to boot a machine with IBMIT from the USB device and as an IBMIT installation source in the Linux installation tool Prerequisites Before creating an IBMIT bootable USB you must have the following items e a blank USB key or one that can be erased e an IBMIT DVD or ISO image file To create a bootable USB key follow these steps 1 Select USB Image Creator from the Utilities menu IBM Installation Toolkit for Linux on POWER Welcome Center Utilities Repositories Management H USB Image Creator f Eject Media Reboot Machine a Exit Browser lt Previous Figure 111 Welcome Center menu Utilities 2 On the Creation window enter the following information e USB device Select the USB device you want to use to create the IBMIT USB key If you want to use a USB device that is not in the list insert it in the machine and press Refresh to see it there Note that the chosen USB device will be formatted and any data contained in it will be lost Copyright IBM Corp 2009 2010 127 e File
203. ystools Quit Prev Next c Apply Information See details See details See details See details See details See details 1 select a category and click on Apply in order to see only the packages in it 2 check in the list the packages you wish to be installed 3 click on See details to see the description of a given package Figure 12 IBM packages to be installed Click Next 8 Accept the licenses for the IBM software to be installed by checking I accept all the licenses above You cannot proceed without accepting all of them For each license click Read license to learn more about it 24 Linux IBM Installation Toolkit User Manual IBM packages licenses License IBM Common Public License CPL v1 0 ILAN International Licence Agreement for Non Warranted Programs Commercial IBM Proprietary IBM Corp L1 accept all the licenses above Quit Prev Next Details Read license Read license Read license Read license Read license Read license IBM installation Toolkit for Linux on POWER This shows all of the licenses you must accept in order to install the selected IBM packages If you want to read a license click on Read license In order to proceed you need to accept all licenses by checking the box accept all the licenses above Figure 13 IBM packages licenses Click Next 9 Confirm the chosen Linux installation settings the IBM software t

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