When setting up Automated Installer (AI) clients, an interactive tool can be used to generate a custom system configuration profile. The profile will specify the time zone, data and time, user and…

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Options

• Asys-unconfig
• Binstalladm set-criteria
• Csysconfig create-profile
• Dinstalladm create-profile

• A
  2% (1)
• B
  2% (1)
• C
  88% (38)
• D
  7% (3)

Explanation

sysconfig create-profile is the correct answer because it is the Oracle Solaris interactive tool specifically designed to walk an administrator through entering system configuration details - timezone, date/time, root and user accounts, name services - and output a completed SC profile in XML format, ready for use with an AI client installation.

Why the distractors are wrong:

• A. sys-unconfig does the opposite - it removes system configuration, resetting a host to an unconfigured state for redeployment; it creates nothing.
• B. installadm set-criteria modifies the matching rules that assign manifests or SC profiles to specific clients; it doesn't generate profile content.
• D. installadm create-profile registers an already-existing SC profile XML file with the AI install service - it does not interactively create one from scratch.

Memory tip: Split the command into its meaning - sysconfig = "system configuration," create-profile = "make a new profile." When you need to build the system config profile interactively, reach for the tool whose name literally says so: sysconfig create-profile. The installadm commands manage the install service (adding, assigning), while sysconfig handles the profile content itself.

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