Provisions a hardware server using configuration properties from the input file. The configuration properties required for a component can be viewed from the Enterprise Manager console. After you make a provisioning request, you can view the status of the request from the Enterprise Manager console by using the assignment name (specified by you or the automatically generated name returned to you).

Format

emcli provision
      -image="path_to_image"
      -network="network_profile_path"
      -bootserver="boot_server_name"
      -stageserver="stage_server_name"
      -stgcredentials="username"
      -schedule="type:immediate/onetime;timezone:zone;
       startdt:startdate;starttm:time"
      -resettimeout="time"
      -target="hardware_server_label"
      -input_file="config_properties:file_path"
      -assignment="assignment_name"
      [-desc="assignment_description"]

[ ]  indicates that the parameter is optional

Options

• image

  Path to the image (includes the image name). This is the image used for provisioning.

• network

  Path name of the network profile.

• bootserver

  Name of the boot server.

  Format: hostName:Directory Path

• stageserver

  Name of the stage server. hostName:Directory Path.

• Stgcredentials

  User name of the stage server.

• schedule

  Time when provisioning should be scheduled. This is a string argument that contains multiple name-value pairs separated by `;'. This is used to schedule the provisioning operation. "type" can be `immediate' or `onetime'. If "type" is not immediate, the other values are expected in the Time Zone: string, which is a timezone ID of the format:

  zone Sign TwoDigitHours:Minutes

  zone: Time zone ID (GMT, PDT, and so forth)

  Sign: one of "+ -"

  TwoDigitHours: Digit Digit

  Minutes: Digit Digit

  Digit: One of 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

  Startdt: Date string of the format: MM/DD/YY

  Starttm: Time string of the format: HH:MM

• resettimeout

  Reset timeout for the hardware server in minutes.

• target

  Target hardware server is specified using the hardware label type.

• input_file

  File containing configuration properties.

  For more information about the input_file parameter, see -input_file Syntax Guidelines.

• assignment

  Name of the assignment.

• desc

  Assignment description. The description is automatically generated if not specified.

Examples

This example submits a job to provision myimage on a target with the label of mylabel. The job runs immediately with a reset timeout of 100 minutes. Image properties are picked from properties.txt that overrides the default image. properties.stageserver is used as the staging server, and /private/share as the staging storage with joe as the user name.

emcli provision
      -image="Images/myimage"
      -network="Networks/networkprofile"
      -bootserver="booservername.example.com"
      -stageserver="stageserver.example.com:/private/share"
      -stgcredentials="joe"
      -schedule="type:immediate"
      -resettimeout="100"
      -target="mylabel"
      -input_file="config_properties:properties.txt"
      -assignment="provision mylabel"