Cisco Server Provisioner

Quick Start Guide

 

This Quick Start Guide summarizes how install Cisco Server Provisioner and how to provision and image your first Linux and Windows systems.

 

Provisioner is delivered either as a Virtual Appliance (OVF) or as installable software whereby you supply a dedicated physical or virtual system, with RHEL or CentOS Linux configured to Cisco specifications, onto which Provisioner is then easily installed, used and maintained. No other applications may be running on the system dedicated to running Provisioner.

 

If you are upgrading from a prior version of Provisioner, please follow the instructions in "Upgrade to a New Version".

 

Coming soon: LinMin Bare Metal Provisioning 7.0. With enhanced security, faster 64-bit imaging, user extensibility and many other enhancements, LBMP 7.0 ("Buddy Holly" release) will also do bare metal provisioning of these new additional distros and platforms: RHEL/CentOS 7.x, ESXi 6.x, Debian 8.x, Ubuntu 14.xx/15.xx/16.xx, Oracle Enterprise Linux 5.x/6.x/7.x, Fedora 2x and more.

 

Contact us for more details and early access. And enjoy LBMP 6.6 ("Chuck Berry"release) in the meantime!

 

 

The Importance of Obtaining and Providing the Correct Networking Values

 

Provisioner is highly network-dependent. The installation process should not be started until you have read and understood the network requirements and you have obtained all the required network values from your network administrator.

 

During Provisioner installation, you will be asked to enter the networking values once, and all the required services will then be automatically configured for your environment: DHCP, PXE, TFTP, HTTP, NFS, PostgreSQL, Samba, Iptables firewall, Web server, proxy server. For this reason, it is essential that you provide the correct networking values.

 

It is highly recommended that you review this Provisioner Quick Start Guide with your Network Administrator.

 

 

 

Provisioner is delivered in 2 different form factors. For further instructions, select which form factor you will be using:

 

•Provisioner Virtual Appliance is a Virtual Machine in Open Virtualization Format (OVF) where CentOS and Provisioner are already installed.

 

•Installable Provisioner where you install and configure the operating system (RHEL or CentOS), then install Provisioner