| Ignite-UX is quite a versatile product. It has a great deal of functionality associated with it that would take an entire book to cover. This background section was written with an older versin of Ignite-UX and did not include any vPar-related information. It is, however; a good overview of Ignite-UX for those who have never used it. I'll cover what I believe to be the two major functional areas of Ignite-UX that I see used. These are: Network installation of client, or target, systems from a server that has on it software depots. These depots are usually created by copying software from media into depots on the Ignite-UX server. This is somewhat the same as the software installation covered in Chapter 2, except that the software is on a server rather than media. There is also a graphical user interface that allows you to control this process from the server. This technique would allow you to select the specific software that you want to load on each individual client. You can either "push" software from the server to the client or "pull" software to the client from the server. In addition to creating software depots from media, you can create an operating system archive from a "golden image." The "golden image" is a perfectly running system that you wish to replicate to many systems. The make_sys_image command produces a compressed image of a "golden system." In this chapter we'll focus on the software depots created from copying media into depots on the server. Creating a bootable system recovery tape. This feature allows you to create an image of your root volume on tape. You could later boot off of this tape and restore the root volume group directly from tape.
Let's take a look at these two aspects of Ignite-UX in the upcoming sections. Be sure to check www.docs.hp.com to obtain some good documents available on Ignite-UX and www.software.hp.com to obtain the latest IgniteUX software. Some of these documents have much more detail than I provide in the upcoming "how to" sections. I'll assume that you already have the Ignite-UX product loaded on your server system. This software comes bundled with HP-UX 11i and 11.0, so it is just a matter of loading it on your server system from media. You can be sure that you're getting the latest version of Ignite-UX if you download it from the software.hp.com Web site. The process of working with Ignite-UX in this chapter is nearly identical for HP-UX 10.20, 11.0, and 11i. You'll find this chapter applicable regardless of which version of HP-UX you're running. After installing Ignite-UX, you may want to update your path so that you don't have to type the full path for every Ignite-UX command. For the default POSIX shell, you would issue the following: # export PATH=${PATH}:/opt/ignite/bin This command updates your path to include the directory for most Ignite-UX executables, /opt/ignite/bin. |