Moving the Operating System Installation Management (OSIM) image store location.

Products

• CA Client Automation - IT Client Manager
• CA Client Automation

Issue/Introduction

The space on the C Drive is almost full. Is there a way to move the Operating System Installation Management (OSIM) images to a different drive?

Environment

Client Automation - All versions

 

 

Resolution

Follow the procedure below to change the OSIM image store location.

1. Make sure that the Boot server is configured for TFTP Access
   
   
   • This can be checked by issuing the 'sdbsswitch' command
     
     
     
     
   • run sdbsswitch -L, if the Boot server is configured for share access then change this to TFTP using the command 'sdbsswitch -t'
     
     
     
     
2. Stop caf
   
   
• Issue the command 'caf stop'
  
  
3. Move the OSIM image Store
   
   
   • The ManagedPC directory is the starting directory of the OS image store.
     
     
   • The default location is "%Program Files%\CA\DSM\Server\SDBS\var\managedpc'. 
     
     
     
     
   • The Complete ManagedPC directory must be moved to the new location
     
     
     
     
4. Update the Comstore with new path of the OSIM Image Store
   
   
   • This requires one of 2 commands
     
     Ccnfcmda -cmd setparametervalue -ps/itrm/scalability_server/osim/ManagedPC -pn InstallPath -v <newPath>
     or
     Ccnfcmda -cmd setparametervalue -ps/itrm/scalabilityserver/osim/ManagedPC -pn InstallPath -v <newPath>
     
     
   • Only one of these commands needs to be run dependent on the version of ITCM installed. To determine which command is required run the following 2 Commands:
     
     ccnfcmda -cmd getparametervalue -ps /itrm/scalability_server/osim/ManagedPC -pn InstallPath
     and
     ccnfcmda -cmd getparametervalue -ps /itrm/scalabilityserver/osim/ManagedPC -pn InstallPath
     
     One of the commands will return the current value in the comstore and the other will return getparametervalue: CCNF_PARAMSECTION_NOT_FOUND
     
     
     
     The above command that returns the current value contains the correct value for -ps on that server.
     
     If ManagedPC is moved for example to E:\osim\ManagedPC\ the value for <NewPath> should be set to E:\osim\
     In this example the command should be: ccnfcmda -cmd setparametervalue -ps/itrm/scalability_server/osim/ManagedPC -pn InstallPath -v "E:\OSIM\"
5. Start caf
   
   
• Issue the command 'caf start'
  
  
6. Reconfigure the boot server for share access if this was the original configuration using the command 'sdbsswitch -s'.
   
   

 

 

****Important****
When entering the value for <NewPath> in step 4 be sure to include the backslash (\) at the end of the path. Failure to do so will cause the createosimage command to fail with the following problems:

Additional Information

Problem 1
Failure when attempting to create a new OS Image either through command line or Wizard.

Problem 2
Createosimage -x does not return any results and the Local OS Images windows in the Image prepare system is empty.

Problem 3
ERROR: The OS-Image is not valid!
when running createosimage -d <image_name> to delete an osimage.