solaris(5) describes its usage as -c option to subcommands.
They are the roughly equivalent to Solaris 10 sysidcfg files.
The main benefits are:
- Consistency;
- Simplicity;
- Speed;
They can be used during bare-metal system installations but also during zone installations and even a combination of both. In any case, the benefits are immense and it's worth while take some time to learn how to deal with system configuration profiles.
A system configuration profile is a somewhat complex XML file.
Instead of building it from the scratch, the following approach seems best:
- Generate a baseline by using sysconfig create-profile;
- Manually edit the baseline accordingly.
The 1st step is rather easy.
Simply do:
$ sysconfig create-profile -o <output_xml_file>
The 2nd step may be much harder in at first.
That is, while you have to research what excerpts have to be inserted.
The ultimate help are the on-line manuals and some SMF info extraction.
NOTE
A configuration profile is focused on a client-side configuration.I have already given examples on applying a system configuration profile.
It can't configure for instance a DNS server.
That's another story.
See sysconfig(1M).
Please, refer to the following other posts:
Examples of system configuration profiles:
