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• Network access to any clients to be installed. Client and server must be on the same subnet if the
initial boot of the client is planned to be over the network.
Ignite-UX Server Setup: Overview
1. Install HP-UX.
2. Install the Ignite-UX software.
3. Set up the core HP-UX software.
4. Add additional applications (optional).
5. Run
ignite to complete the configuration and to start the process.
Note: All operations are executed as "privileged user" on the Ignite-UX server. Except where
noted, all commands referenced here are located in
/opt/ignite/bin. (See the "privileges"
manpage for more information on the privileged user.)
Ignite-UX Server Setup: Details
1. Install HP-UX
Refer to the HP-UX 11i Installation and Update Guide and Read Before Installing or Updating
to HP-UX 11i for the revision of HP-UX 11i that you wish to install or update for instructions.
2. Install Ignite-UX software.
The Ignite-UX tool-set is contained on the HP-UX application set of DVDs. The per-release
software bundles are named as follows:
Ignite-UX-11-31
, Ignite-UX-11-23, and
Ignite-UX-11-11. Each software bundle contains the Ignite-UX tools in addition to the
data files required for support of the particular HP-UX release indicated by the bundle name.
You may load one or more of the Ignite-UX bundles onto your server depending on which
releases of HP-UX you plan on installing onto clients. The entire set of releases is supported
with the IGNITE bundle.
Once the application DVD containing Ignite-UX has been mounted, you may use the
swin-
stall command to load the desired Ignite-UX bundles. For example, the command below
would load the support needed for installing HP-UX 11.23 onto clients assuming the DVD is
mounted at /cdrom:
swinstall -s /cdrom Ignite-UX-11-23
3. Set up core HP-UX software.
Before Ignite-UX may be used, you must configure the software for it to load onto the clients.
Since both SD sources and archive (non-SD) sources (tar, cpio,orpax) may be used, both
cases will be considered separately below.
For SD operating system software:
For Ignite-UX to use an SD source, you must have a registered SD depot available and an
Ignite-UX configuration file generated from that depot.
If you already have an SD depot containing the core HP-UX software, you may enable
Ignite-UX’s access it by using the
make_config and manage_index commands.
You may also use the Server Setup wizard available from the Welcome screen of the
Ignite-UX server and from the Actions menu. The wizard is self-explanatory.
Enabling (or updating) an existing depot
If you already have an SD depot available, or if you have made changes to a depot
about which Ignite-UX knows, you may use the make_config and
manage_index commands to generate a configuration file that Ignite-UX will use
to access the depot. For example:
make_config -s server:/depot_1123 \
-c /var/opt/ignite/data/Rel_B.11.23/core_cfg
manage_index -a -f \
/var/opt/ignite/data/Rel_B.11.23/core_cfg
If at a later time, you modify the contents of a depot (for example, using swcopy to
add software), the same make_config step will need to be rerun in order for
Ignite-UX to be aware of the modifications.
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