Using storage systems as netboot servers

Netboot server requirements

You can configure a storage system to serve boot images to other NetApp devices that support netboot. To do so, you must configure

HTTP services, TFTP services, or both on the storage system.
The rest of your netboot-using environment to access the storage system as the netboot source. For example, you might configure BOOTP, DHCP, bootparamd, and/or rarpd, depending on the specific procedure you are using.

Serving boot images from the system /etc/http directory

You can also serve netboot images from your storage system by placing them in the /etc/http directory. The contents of this directory are served by default to enable the FilerView graphical management interface. For example, if you create an /etc/http/boot directory and place a boot image called custom-mips in that directory, the boot image will be available for netboot startup at the following URL:
http://your.filer.com/na_admin/boot/custom-mips

Configuring HTTP services

To configure a storage system as an HTTP netboot server, complete the following steps.

Step	Action
1	Place boot programs in the storage system's /etc/http directory.
2	At the command line of the source system, enter the following command: options httpd.enable on

Step

Action

Place boot programs in the storage system's /etc/http directory.

At the command line of the source system, enter the following command:

options httpd.enable on

Configuring TFTP services

To configure a storage system as a TFTP netboot server, complete the following steps.

Step	Action
1	Place boot programs in the system /etc/tftpboot directory. Note Boot programs are not required to be in the /etc/tftpboot directory, but they must be in the directory that is set to be `tftpd.rootdir`.
2	On the command line of the source system, enter the following command: options tftpd.enable on

Step

Action

Place boot programs in the system /etc/tftpboot directory.

Note
Boot programs are not required to be in the /etc/tftpboot directory, but they must be in the directory that is set to be tftpd.rootdir.

On the command line of the source system, enter the following command:

options tftpd.enable on

Specifying the TFTP root directory

Any path name specified on the TFTP command line is considered to be relative to the TFTP root directory. TFTP access using absolute path names succeeds only if the specified files are located in the file system under this directory. The default value of the tftpd.rootdir option is /etc/tftpboot.

To specify a TFTP root directory other than /etc/tftpboot, complete the following step.

Step	Action
1	On the command line of the source system, enter the following command: options tftpd.rootdir pathname Note A valid value for pathname is a fully qualified path name to a valid, existing directory on any volume on the storage system.

Enabling console logging of TFTP accessed files

To enable console logging of files accessed with TFTP, complete the following step.

Step	Action
1	On the command line of the source system, enter the following command: options tftpd.logging on