To install one of the Unisys-supplied operating systems to a partition on a partitionable enterprise partition platform (PEPP),
Use the Fabric Manager user interface to commission a partition image with the desired operating system. For more information, see Overview of Commissioning a Partition and Commissioning a Partition Image.
Note: For more information on creating secure fabrics, refer to Creating a Secure Fabric.
Complete initial configuration of the operating system. For more information, see Completing Installation and Configuration of a Unisys-supplied Windows Partition Image or Completing Installation and Configuration of a Unisys-supplied Linux Partition Image.
After configuring and customizing the operating system and application operating environment, be sure to back up your partition. For more information, see Backing Up Application Operating Environments on Partitionable Enterprise Partition Platforms.
Notes:
When configuring a software firewall on a partition image, ensure that you configure the firewall to allow incoming ping requests through the ClearPath Forward Management LAN (FM LAN). The Fabric Manager monitors the health status of a partition image through ping checks; if the ping requests on the FM LAN to the partition image are blocked by a firewall, the Fabric Manager displays a warning state for the partition image’s health (but does not generate an event).
Do not use the YaST firewall module to configure software firewalls on a partition created using a Unisys-supplied SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) image. As Unisys uses a custom firewall zone, the YaST firewall module will report errors.