Solaris JumpStart Software

It's important that the system get a good start in life. It's initial installation should be as good and complete as it can possibly be. The Solaris Operating Environment contains some nice tools to accomplish this. One of the commonly tools is the Solaris JumpStart software.

Solaris JumpStart software is a powerful installation tool for systems that will be running the Solaris Operating Environment. Using a Solaris JumpStart server can help reach the goal of total hands-off installation.

Using the "JASS" toolkit, written by Alex Noordergraf and Glen Brunette and available as Sun Blueprint , http://www.sun.com/blueprints/, as a basic architecture layout and software setup, and adding additional similar scripts, a hands-off installation server can be built that can be expanded to include the installation of many of the tools and applications required for the systems.

Some of the issues encountered along the way to standardization can be patches, storage firmware, and software application versions.

The Solaris JumpStart server is an important aspect of controlling the system configurations. The Solaris JumpStart server should be secure and protected against break-ins because if it is compromised, the files that will be installed onto the systems could be compromised and installed directly into your environment.