Originally posted by: Siddhartha.Sinha

I work in disaster recovery field. In this scenario sometimes we need to boot from CD and restore from mksysb tape when mksysb tape is unable to boot. Also when we boot from CD it installs the missing softwares also. Now is there any way we can boot from NIM Server and recover from the mksysb tape instead of booting from CD.

Originally posted by: esv

Yes, there is. You could use sysback also. The whole NIM idea is that you should be able to recover a machine w/o the need of a cd/tape drive.

Originally posted by: Siddhartha.Sinha

Actually here is the scenario. We are disaster recovery support. Customer comes with their mksysb tapes to recover here. If their mksysb tape failes to boot from tape then we have two tested options one is boot from CD and restore from mksysb and the 2nd one is extract the mksysb image to NIM server and do the NIM load. I am thinking the 3rd way like instead the image to the NIM Server if could boot from NIM Server and restore from tape the exactly same way like the 1st option (clone load). I couldn't see any option there when we boot from NIM.

Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

first have nim master with lpp, spot and create resource group which containes this lpp and spot

also define a nim client to NIM master

then give this command on nim master

nim -o maint_boot -a group="resource group name" nimclient

from client use sms menu to boot from Ethernet adapter

Hope this will help. Yash

Originally posted by: Siddhartha.Sinha

Same thing. Probably the feature I am looking for is not there at all.