Setting The Initial Ip Address Using The Ibm Advanced Appliance Configuration Utility; Setting The Initial Ip Address Using A Diskette - IBM eServer xSeries 135 Installation Manual

Setting the initial IP address using the IBM Advanced
Appliance Configuration Utility
To set the initial IP address using the IBM Advanced Appliance Configuration Utility,
do the following:

Setting the initial IP address using a diskette

To set the initial IP address using a diskette, do the following:
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IBM xSeries 135 Appliance Server: Installation Guide
1. Configure the IBM Advanced Appliance Configuration Utility with a family
covering the newly deployed appliance. See "IBM Advanced Appliance
Configuration Utility" on page 16.
2. Start the IBM Advanced Appliance Configuration Utility with the configuration
and deploy the new appliance in the same subnet (the IBM Advanced Appliance
Configuration Utility does not work outside of the subnet of the appliance).
3. Select the appliance in the left pane and click Start Web Management. An initial
configuration page opens.
4. Complete the initial configuration of the appliance using the wizard. The
appliance server restarts.
1. Format a diskette using a computer running DOS or Microsoft
create a DOS file system on the diskette if using some other computer.
2. Create a file in the root directory of the diskette called initsys.ini with an initial
configuration file containing the new IP address of the appliance.
The diskette can contain the following information:
• Initial IP address
• Host name of the appliance
• IP address of gateway device (default route)
• Network mask
• IP address of primary DNS name server
• System password
The following is an example configuration file:
IPaddress=10.1.1.1
Subnet=255.255.255.0
GatewayAddress=9.27.67.1
The configuration file contains only 7-bit standard ASCII characters. Lines
beginning with # are treated as comments. All white space is ignored. Keywords
can appear in any order, and the keyword names are case-sensitive.
The following keywords are available:
Keyword
IPaddress
NetworkMask
HostName
GatewayAddress
NameServerAddress
Password
Purpose
Initial IP address
Network mask
Fully-qualified host name
IP address of gateway device
IP address of primary DNS
name server
System password
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Windows , or
Default value
existing system password