Configuring Netboot Services with Site Manager308614-14.20 Rev 00 3-52. Record the name of each configuration file and corresponding router forlater reference when configuring network boot options.When you name configuration files, keep the following restrictions in mind:• Nortel Networks recommends that the operational configuration file foreach router be named config. If a router experiences a power failure, itboots from the file named config when power returns. However, theconfiguration files that you save on a BootP server for Directed Netbootdo not have to be named config because you specify the configuration filepath name (see the description of the Site Manager parameter BootConfig Pathname on page A-3.)• Configuration file names must begin with an alphabetic character. Theremaining characters must be alphanumeric and can include anunderscore (_). You cannot use spaces.• Configuration file names can consist of 1 to 15 characters, including adot (.). Nortel Networks recommends that you limit file names to 8characters to ensure that all supported operating systems can recognizethe names.• Configuration file-name extensions are optional and must follow a filename and a dot. Nortel Networks recommends that you limit file-nameextensions to three characters.• BootP allows a maximum of 49 characters in a path name, includingslashes, file name, optional dot, and file-name extension.3. If the BootP server and Site Manager do not reside on the sameworkstation, transfer the configuration files to the BootP server.Preparing an ImageIf you want the router to automatically boot a network-based image when startingup (using Netboot or Directed Netboot), use the Site Manager Image Builder tool.To create the kernel, application, and string files for storage on the BootP/TFTPserver:1. On the Site Manager workstation, open the software image file using theImage Builder tool.For instructions on how to use the Image Builder, see Configuring andManaging Routers with Site Manager.
