The subject should say "simplify" rather than"simply" - Sundar
Sundar Yamunachari wrote: > The automated installer uses three kinds of manifests as of 09/06 > release. They are sysmap (or criteria) manifest, install (or AI) > manifest and system configuration manifest. The purpose of these > manifests are as follows: > > The install manifest is an XML document that defines the client > installation. It contains disk target, partition and slice operations, > IPS repository selection etc. The SC manifest or system configuration > manifest contains the information needed to configure the system after > installation is completed. This contains IP address, user account, > time zone etc. The criteria manifest associate the AI manifest and the > SC manifest with a client. > > The 09/06 release provides a default manifest for each service. The > users can add custom manifests and associate a client based on MAC > address, IP address, memory, and architecture. > > Jack worked on the manifest inter-file functional specification. The > discussion about criteria manifest helped us to realize that it is > very complicated and difficult to understand. > > I would like to propose removing criteria manifest from AI and keep > only install manifest and SC manifest for the following reasons: > - The client specific setup is done in two places. First to associate > a service, the user needs to do 'installadm create-client' and to > associate a manifest, the user needs to add a custom manifest with MAC > address of the client as the criteria. We can combine service and > manifest association in one command if the criteria manifest is > removed from the manifest. > - Removing criteria manifest reduces the type of manifests the user > needs to manage from three manifests to two manifests and improve user > experience with AI > > One potential disadvantage is that the proposal will remove some > functionality. Currently the users can use different criteria other > than MAC address or combine multiple criteria to customize the > environment. This feature is not used by many because of the > complexity of setting up custom manifests. The derived manifests can > be used in some of those cases. > > Please send your feedback about the proposal. > > Thanks, > Sundar > _______________________________________________ > caiman-discuss mailing list > caiman-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/caiman-discuss
