HP-UX 11i Version 2 March 2004 Release Notes

General System Administration

Ignite-UX

Chapter 5

Ignite-UX

The Ignite-UX (Ignite-UX) product is an HP-UX administration toolset that helps you do

the following:

• install HP-UX 11.0 and 11i v1 (B.11.11), v1.6 (B.11.22), v2 (B.11.23) on multiple

PA-RISC and/or Itanium-based clients on your network;

• create custom install configurations, or golden images, for use in multiple

installations on clients;

• recover HP-UX clients remotely;

• create custom recovery media including tape, and CD-ROM;

• manage and monitor multiple client installation sessions.

Summary of Change

Version B.5.2 delivers the following:

• An issue with the installation and recovery of HP-UX 10.20 and 11.00 clients that

was discovered in the Ignite-UX B.5.0.x and B.5.1.x versions has been resolved. For

more information, see customer bulletin Part # 5990-7242 at the HP IT Resource

Center at http://itrc.hp.com/ and the Ignite-UX Web site at the HP Software

Depot at http://www.software.hp.com/products/IUX.

•The make_*_recovery tools have been updated to:

— support file sizes up to 8 GB for HP-UX 11i v1 and later, though these tools only

support file sizes up to 2 GB for the 11.00 and 10.20 releases;

— recover mount points in the essentials list that are in non-root volume group

using the options of -x include and -x inc_entire;

— describe the function of the _hp_ignore_sw_impact variable in the WARNINGS

section of instl_adm (4);

— install an archive file size that is greater than 2 GB.

• Installation and recovery of Itanium-based and PA-RISC servers and clients now

occurs automatically by Ignite-UX detecting the hardware type and installing the

correct operating system binaries accordingly.

• Large file impacts, where the file size is greater than 2 GB, are now computed

accurately.

• The call to “vxdisk online”, when configuring VxVM layouts, was removed as it was

unnecessary and could cause problems in client installs in limited circumstances.

• The GUI has been enhanced to allow the _hp_addnl_fs_free_pct parameter to be

modified from the

Additional... button of the Basic tab. This allows you to more finely

tune disk space allocation. See instl_adm (4).

Impact

You can now install and recover clients running HP-UX 10.20 and 11.00 using the

B.5.2.x version of Ignite-UX.