Administrator's Guide

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Contents

HP secure development lifecycle....................................................................10

1 Ignite-UX overview....................................................................................11

Ignite-UX features...................................................................................................................11

Getting the Ignite-UX software .................................................................................................13

Ignite-UX commands and manpages.........................................................................................14

Introduction to the Ignite-UX GUI...............................................................................................15

How Ignite works....................................................................................................................18

The Ignite-UX install environment..........................................................................................19

Boot sources......................................................................................................................19

Installation versus recovery..................................................................................................19

Network booting and IP addresses.......................................................................................19

Phases of operation............................................................................................................20

Startup........................................................................................................................20

Phase 1.......................................................................................................................21

Phase 2.......................................................................................................................21

Phase 3.......................................................................................................................22

Ignite-UX server requirements...................................................................................................22

Supported peripherals ............................................................................................................24

Disks and other I/O...........................................................................................................24

Firmware..........................................................................................................................24

Disk arrays........................................................................................................................24

Client terminals..................................................................................................................24

2 Making configuration decisions for Ignite servers..........................................25

Boot and install client from media.............................................................................................25

Simple network solutions..........................................................................................................25

Alternate boot with network server installation............................................................................27

Complex networks..................................................................................................................28

Diagnosing network boot issues................................................................................................28

HP-UX diagnosing and debugging.......................................................................................29

Simple network debugging.............................................................................................29

Logging to syslog.log.....................................................................................................29

Using bootpquery.........................................................................................................29

RDP diagnosing and debugging..........................................................................................30

3 Simple network: creating a server for registered clients..................................31

Configuring the Ignite-UX server for PA-RISC clients.....................................................................31

Launch Ignite-UX................................................................................................................31

Launch the server setup wizard............................................................................................32

Register the PA-RISC clients with the server.............................................................................34

Skip DHCP setup...............................................................................................................35

Go to the software setup section..........................................................................................35

Configuring the Ignite-UX server for Itanium-based clients.............................................................35

Use the server setup wizard to proceed to software depot setup...............................................36

Setting up software from OE depots..........................................................................................36

More server setup options........................................................................................................37

Configuring server options..................................................................................................37

Configuring session options.................................................................................................39

Setting up additional software on the server...............................................................................41

SD software......................................................................................................................41

Non-SD software...............................................................................................................41

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