Installing and Updating Ignite-UX

As an alternative to selecting the “All supported HP-UX versions” option, you may download more

than one OS-specific bundle to get the combination of HP-UX support that you need. When you

install an OS-specific Ignite-UX bundle, you will also see the IGNITE bundle in the swlist (1M) output

of your installed software.

If you only want to download the software required to support system recovery of a specific client,

select the applicable OS-specific option.

Important:

Any Web download package of Ignite-UX can install on any supported

HP-UX release. Supported versions of HP-UX are documented in the

Supported Versions of Ignite-UX PDF file available at

http://www.docs.hp.com/en/oshpux11iv3.html#Ignite-UX

Hewlett-Packard provides OS-specific bundles in order to decrease the download time for Ignite-UX.

By limiting what you install on your Ignite-UX server, you save download time and disk space.

However, your needs may change over time. For example, if you downloaded the package that

supports HP-UX 11i v1 in July 2007, you most likely downloaded the C.7.2 version of Ignite-UX. If

you decide in October 2007 that you also need support for HP-UX 11i v2, the Web packages for

C.7.2 will no longer be available. At that point if you have not stored a copy of the full Ignite-UX

product for potential future use, you would be forced to upgrade to a new version of Ignite-UX in

order to add support for HP-UX 11i v2.

HP recommends you install the complete Ignite-UX product (IGNITE) unless you want to block the

use of a specific version of HP-UX, increase the download speed, or conserve disk space on the

server.

Obtaining Ignite-UX from OE and Application media

Each media set released by HP contains bundles specific to one HP-UX release. For example, if you

install bundle Ignite-UX-11-11 from Operating Environment (OE) media for HP-UX 11i v2, that

bundle will only install properly on 11i v2 systems. The same is true for Application media.

If you support multiple HP-UX releases, you have two options:

1. Install Ignite-UX from the media specific to the HP-UX release of your Ignite-UX server. For

example, if the current OE media supports HP-UX 11i v2 and your Ignite-UX server is HP-UX 11i

v1, then use the AR media for HP-UX 11i v1 instead. Once Ignite-UX is installed on the system,

you can install clients with any supported HP-UX release (this assumes you have installed the

software required to support that release).

2. Download Ignite-UX from the Web. The version of Ignite-UX on the Web installs on any

supported HP-UX release.

To successfully install Ignite-UX, use media appropriate for the target HP-UX release. Attempting to

use Ignite-UX on a version of HP-UX that is no longer supported will fail. The appropriate OS-

specific bundles must be present in order for Ignite-UX to support a given HP-UX release.

Do not install Ignite-UX with the Software Distributor (SD) option –x allow_incompatible

=true. HP does not support installing Ignite-UX in this manner. If software incompatible with a

target OS is force-installed, SD leaves that incompatible software in a state of “installed” but not

“configured”; that is, the SD configure scripts are never run.