Successful System Cloning using Ignite-UX

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Example 1
You created a golden image on an N4000. When installing from the OE media, because the
N4000 does not support hard partitions, some software may not be selected for installation or
configured for hard partitioned systems as in this example. The Partition Manager product (fileset
PartitionManager.PARMGR) in HP-UX 11i v1 contains the following product configuration
script:
#
# Register our TM, DA, and CB files if we are running on a system that
# supports hardware partitions
#
if [ -x /usr/sbin/parstatus ]; then
# Check to see if the system supports hardware partitions
/usr/sbin/parstatus -s
if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
/usr/sam/bin/samreg /opt/parmgr/lib/parmgr
if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
echo "ERROR: PartitionManager unregistration failed."
exit $FAILURE
fi
# restart samd
kill_named_procs samd 9
fi
fi
This means that the hard partition software is only registered with System Administration Manager
(SAM) if the software was initially installed on a hard-partitioned system.
If you are able to successfully install the golden image onto an rp8400, you will not be able to
access Partition Manager via SAM though it may work from the command line. You would have to
reconfigure the PartitionManager.PARMGR
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Example 2
fileset to allow the execution of parmgr(1M)
from SAM.
Consider carefully where you create your golden images or what you plan to use as a source for
cloning. The same applies to the architecture of the system that you would use as the source for a
golden image or where you create a recovery tape to be used for cloning.
In addition, consider that there are some PA-RISC 2.0 only products and patches for HP-UX 11i v1.
If a recovery archive or golden image is created on a PA-RISC 2.0 system and you attempt to
recover it to a PA-RISC 1.1 system, some components of HP-UX may not work.
For example, the following patches are for PA-RISC 2.0 systems only:
PHSS_30174 3D Common Run (PA2.0 only)
PHSS_30175 PEX 5.1/Starbase/Hardcopy Run (PA2.0 only)
PHSS_30176 PHIGS Dev (PA2.0 only)
PHSS_30177 PHIGS Run (PA2.0 only)
PHSS_30178 Starbase/Hardcopy Dev (PA2.0 only)
PHSS_30179 OpenGL 1.1 Dev (PA2.0 only)
6 Use the following to reconfigure the fileset: swconfig –x reconfigure=true PartitionManager.PARMGR