When you add a Gold Image, it is copied to the internal SAS disk of an associated EPP, so that it is available for commissioning.
Notes:
Unisys-supplied Gold Images are placed on a particular EPP's SAS disk at the factory.
You must use Internet Explorer 11 or any latest version of Firefox or Chrome browser to add a gold image.
You can add a Unisys-supplied gold image to a selected platform from the following sources:
Physical media through the Fabric Manager Platform, DVD, or USB.
File store on a server that resides outside the fabric, which can be accessed through the Fabric Manager.
From the FFM Repository residing on the FMP.
You can also create and add operating system images to a selected platform. If you do so, you must also add the corresponding blueprint included in the toolkit for your operating system image.
For more information about installing a customer-supplied Windows or Linux OS, refer the ClearPath Forward Product Documentation available at http://public.support.unisys.com.
To add a Gold Image
On the Fabric Manager user interface, click Advanced Settings.
Click the Images tab.
The list of available images appears.
Verify that the name of the image you want to add is unique (does not appear on the list). If the name already appears, delete the existing image before adding the new gold image.
To know more about how to delete an existing image, see Deleting a Gold Image
Click Upload.
The Upload Image window appears.
Select the desired platform(s) to which you want to upload the image.
Notes:
To add an image to all the available platforms, select Platform Name.
Fabric Manager does not allow you to simultaneously upload multiple images to a platform.
Under the Select Image (FFM Repository/Choose a new File) section, do either of the following:
Under FFM Repository, select the image that you want to upload.
Note: The FFM Repository is a repository folder on the FMP that stores the images. The path to access the images folder on the FMP is /FFM-Repo/images. Images are downloadable from a DVD or from the Unisys Support site to this folder. Images are also added to the FFM Repository when they are uploaded to a platform from any other location. Unisys recommends periodic deletion of older or unused versions of images. This helps to avoid issues that applications may encounter due to unavailability of adequate storage space.
Under New, navigate to the location of the image file and click Open.
Click Upload.
The uploading process continues in the background. In the Events tab the status of this activity is listed as INITIATED.
During the upload, a new window appears that displays the upload progress. Once the upload is completed, this window closes and the events are entered in Event Console.
Note: The maximum size of the file that can be uploaded is 15 GB.
After the event status becomes SUCCESS, click Synchronize.
The uploaded image appears in the list of available images. The status of image upload appears under Events tab as an event INITIATED for both Fabric Manager platform and selected enterprise partition platform. Once the status of the event becomes SUCCESS for the platform, click Synchronize to view the uploaded image.
Notes:
If you are uploading the image from FMP to the platform, then the Event Console displays two events - one with INITIATED status and another with SUCCESS status.
If you are uploading the image from any other location, the Event Console displays the following:
One event with INITIATED status and another with SUCCESS status for the upload operation from the location to the FMP.
One event with INITIATED status and another with SUCCESS status for the upload from the FMP to the platform.