Administrator's Guide
Agile view concepts................................................................................................................71
Practical considerations...........................................................................................................73
System installation configuration...........................................................................................73
Support for >2 TB boot disk................................................................................................77
Identifying devices for other tasks.........................................................................................78
Important characteristics of the agile view.............................................................................78
Recovery and the agile view....................................................................................................80
Legacy DSFs and device matching.......................................................................................80
Persistent DSFs and device matching.....................................................................................80
Controlling the I/O configuration process..................................................................................81
Agile view questions and answers.............................................................................................82
8 Security...................................................................................................84
Ignite-UX server ports..............................................................................................................84
Modifying a Bastille-hardened system to operate with Ignite-UX....................................................89
Enabling Ignite-UX server requirements.................................................................................90
Enabling Ignite-UX client requirements..................................................................................91
Configuring Ignite to replace TFTP with NFS...............................................................................92
Overview..........................................................................................................................92
Procedure.........................................................................................................................92
9 Booting and installing HP-UX from the server using the client console...............95
Preparing the client for installation ...........................................................................................95
Making boot decisions when using the client console..................................................................96
Boot using the network.......................................................................................................96
Boot using media...............................................................................................................97
Using bootsys on the client console...........................................................................................98
Booting PA-RISC clients from the console ...................................................................................99
Booting Itanium-based clients using the network........................................................................100
Direct boot profiles for Itanium-based systems...........................................................................102
The dbprofile command....................................................................................................103
The lanboot command......................................................................................................104
Installing HP-UX from the client console....................................................................................105
Managing speed and duplexing of LAN interfaces executing network boots.................................108
Examples........................................................................................................................108
10 Booting and installing HP-UX on clients using the server.............................110
Methods of installing client systems.........................................................................................110
Installation using bootsys.......................................................................................................110
Installation using the Ignite-UX GUI.........................................................................................112
Prepare the client for installation........................................................................................112
Starting Ignite-UX.............................................................................................................112
Adding clients.................................................................................................................112
Booting a client...............................................................................................................113
Configuring the installation....................................................................................................116
New installation..............................................................................................................116
Initializing the installation.............................................................................................117
The client installation configuration interface...................................................................117
Basic tab...............................................................................................................118
Software tab .........................................................................................................125
System tab ............................................................................................................130
File System tab ......................................................................................................137
Advanced tab........................................................................................................144
Repeat an installation.......................................................................................................145
Executing the installation.......................................................................................................146
Viewing and printing a manifest ............................................................................................149
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