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To search for information in the Help, type a word or phrase in the Search box. When you enter a group of words, OR is inferred. You can use Boolean operators to refine your search.
Results returned are case insensitive. However, results ranking takes case into account and assigns higher scores to case matches. Therefore, a search for "cats" followed by a search for "Cats" would return the same number of Help topics, but the order in which the topics are listed would be different.
Words and Phrases
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| A single word | cat
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Topics that contain the word "cat". You will also find its grammatical variations, such as "cats". |
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A phrase. You can specify that the search results contain a specific phrase. |
"cat food" (quotation marks) |
Topics that contain the literal phrase "cat food" and all its grammatical variations. Without the quotation marks, the query is equivalent to specifying an OR operator, which finds topics with one of the individual words instead of the phrase. |
Using Boolean Operators
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Two or more words in the same topic |
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| Either word in a topic |
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| Topics that do not contain a specific word or phrase |
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| Topics that contain one string and do not contain another | ^ (caret) |
cat ^ mouse
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| A combination of search types | ( ) parentheses |
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Advanced Import Media Tool information
“Importing operating system media” means that the Import Media tool creates an automatically-generated string called a Media Resource Locator (MRL) for each operating system media that you want to provision that points to the operating system media’s location on the Media Server. The MRL is used by the Software Repository to identify the location of the operating system media on the Media Server. Import media also uploads software packages related to the operating system media to the Software Repository.
An MRL is a network path (in URI format) to the installation media for an operating system on the Media Server. When a server is being provisioned with an operating system, the server mounts the network path for the operating system media by using NFS (for Linux and Solaris), or SMB (for Windows). The MRL is registered with SA. An MRL should resolve to the Media Server in the local facility where SA is installed.
When you run the Import Media tool to create an MRL, the tool:
- Mounts the media at the specified network path by using NFS, SMB, or CIFS.
- Detects the operating system (Solaris, Linux, VMware ESX, or Windows) and version of the media.
- Creates that MRL in SA based on the server name and path that you specify, so that you can use it in OS Installation Profiles.
- Uploads all packages to the Software Repository so that OS Provisioning can install them after initial provisioning. You can specify --upload = yes if you want to upload all packages to the Software Repository. The default is --upload = no.
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--folderoption allows you to specify the full path to upload the operating system media packages. This path corresponds to a folder inside the Library in the SA Client. These packages can be added to a software policy in the SA Client. The software policies can be associated with an OS Sequence. After provisioning completes, the policies will be attached to the server and remediated. If you do not use the--folderoption, then the packages will by default be uploaded to/Package Repository/OS Media/<Platform Name>.
Re-running the Import Media tool with the same server and path as an existing MRL updates the MRL, but does not re-upload duplicate Linux, Solaris, or VMware ESX packages.
From SA 7.80 on, the import_media utility no longer modifies the media during new Linux/Windows media import.
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