Ignite-UX Custom Configuration files

Configu
ration also has an order of precedence when you are booting a system. The precedence is
as follows:
1. The first 8 KB of the installation file system has the highest precedence since it is the first
configuration read by Ignite-UX.
2. During media installations, if there is a LIF file called CUSTOM on any device, this file is loaded
and parsed after the configuration from the installation file system has been processed. Parsing
the configuration after loading all other configurations means that it has the highest order of
precedence (when booting from a CD or tape)
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Testing the order of precedence
It is possible to test the order of precedence using the instl_dbg command:
# pwd
/var/opt/ignite/clients/<MAC>
# cat CINDEX
...
cfg "2003-10-08,12:41 Recovery Archive" {
description "Recovery Archive"
"recovery/2003-10-08,12:41/system_cfg"
"recovery/2003-10-08,12:41/control_cfg"
"recovery/2003-10-08,12:41/archive_cfg"
}
cfg "2003-10-08,12:45 Recovery Archive" {
description "Recovery Archive"
"recovery/2003-10-08,12:45/system_cfg"
"recovery/2003-10-08,12:45/control_cfg"
"recovery/2003-10-08,12:45/archive_cfg"
}=TRUE
# manage_index -e -c "2003-10-08,12:41 Recovery Archive" \
> -i /var/opt/ignite/clients/box1/CINDEX
# cat CINDEX
...
cfg "2003-10-08,12:41 Recovery Archive" {
description "Recovery Archive"
"recovery/2003-10-08,12:41/system_cfg"
"recovery/2003-10-08,12:41/control_cfg"
"recovery/2003-10-08,12:41/archive_cfg"
}=TRUE
cfg "2003-10-08,12:45 Recovery Archive" {
description "Recovery Archive"
"recovery/2003-10-08,12:45/system_cfg"
"recovery/2003-10-08,12:45/control_cfg"
"recovery/2003-10-08,12:45/archive_cfg"
}
So far, the CINDEX for this client has been changed so that the older recovery archive is the
default archive. This is needed in order to show how precedence works. In the config file, the
following cfg clause is selected:
# cat config
cfg "2003-10-08,12:45 Recovery Archive"=TRUE
_hp_cfg_detail_level="ipvs"
...
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This feature is being considered for obsolescence. This part of the installation process is very time consuming for systems
with a very large number of disks.
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