Administrator's Guide

4 Simple network: creating a server for anonymous clients................................43
Overview of anonymous clients.................................................................................................43
Configuring an Ignite server to boot anonymous PA-RISC clients....................................................43
Using the server setup wizard..............................................................................................43
Editing the instl_boottab file................................................................................................43
Configuring an Ignite server to boot anonymous Itanium-based clients...........................................44
Working with DHCP...........................................................................................................44
Understanding PXE booting of Itanium-based systems.........................................................44
Ignite-UX server and boot helper setup for DHCP...............................................................44
Isolating Ignite-UX from noncontrollable DHCP servers .......................................................46
5 Complex networks: challenges and solutions................................................48
How to use this chapter...........................................................................................................48
Complex network challenges....................................................................................................48
Multiple subnets.................................................................................................................49
Remote systems..................................................................................................................49
Multiple boot servers..........................................................................................................50
Avoiding complex network issues..............................................................................................50
An Ignite-UX server for each subnet......................................................................................51
A Multi-capable server for each subnet.................................................................................51
Extend the local subnet.......................................................................................................51
Using virtual LANs properly for Ignite-UX..............................................................................51
Complex network solutions.......................................................................................................52
Automating HP-UX OS version selection................................................................................52
Limit network response by system class..................................................................................53
Directed boot....................................................................................................................53
Server selection.................................................................................................................53
Limit network boot response by network interface address.......................................................53
Control network boot via response timing..............................................................................54
Install remote clients through a network router........................................................................54
Multiple NICs attach the Ignite server to multiple subnets........................................................55
Getting the client the correct networking information..........................................................55
Having the client contact the correct server.......................................................................55
Ignite-UX bootp boot helper................................................................................................56
HP-UX DHCP PXE Next server boot helper for integrity systems............................................57
Configuring a Next server boot helper for Integrity systems............................................57
Forwarding boot requests via bootp relay.........................................................................58
Multi-capable subnet boot server..........................................................................................60
Non-HP-UX Next server boot helper.................................................................................60
Non-HP-UX bootp boot helper.........................................................................................60
6 Complex networks: multi-capable servers.....................................................61
Configuring an RDP server for specific MAC addresses................................................................61
Configuring an RDP server to delay PXE response.......................................................................61
Configuring an RDP server to initiate HP-UX installation................................................................62
Setting up RDP MenuOptions via Windows commands...........................................................62
Setting up RDP MenuOptions via interactive UI......................................................................63
Using an RDP MenuOption for HP-UX...................................................................................66
Linux DHCP PXE Next server boot helper for HP-UX installation.....................................................66
Configuring an HP-UX server to support Linux boot and installation...............................................67
RedHat installation from an HP-UX server..............................................................................69
SuSE installation from an HP-UX server..................................................................................70
Configuring an HP-UX server to support Windows installation.......................................................70
7 Managing I/O for installation and recovery.................................................71
Introducing multipathing..........................................................................................................71
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