User's Guide

_hp_hide_other_disks ...........................................................................................................100
_hp_saved_detail_level .......................................................................................................100
_hp_os_bitness.......................................................................................................................101
_hp_force_autoboot ...............................................................................................................101
_hp_ikernel_os_release .......................................................................................................102
_hp_current_client_release ...............................................................................................102
_HP_CLONING.............................................................................................................................102
_hp_console_verbosity .........................................................................................................103
_hp_patch_save_files ...........................................................................................................103
_hp_umask.................................................................................................................................104
_hp_ht_enable.........................................................................................................................104
_hp_debug_level.....................................................................................................................105
Configuration for software to be installed ............................................................................................105
Application software depots...........................................................................................................105
Core operating system depot configuration......................................................................................110
Impacts statements ........................................................................................................................116
Overstated SD impacts ..................................................................................................................118
Categories and other Ignite-UX software attributes ............................................................................118
Defining a custom software configuration ........................................................................................120
Looking at a network recovery sw_source and sw_sel ..............................................................120
Using a sw_sel to run commands instead of installing software ....................................................122
Using a sw_sel to apply kernel parameters ................................................................................123
Forcing software (sw_sel) clauses to be installed.........................................................................127
Automating dependencies in software .........................................................................................127
Installing patches ..........................................................................................................................129
Configuration for volume and disk groups ...........................................................................................129
Overview.....................................................................................................................................130
Configuration examples ....................................................................................................................131
Example One (custom disk layout) ..................................................................................................131
Example Two (selection of disk layout based on hardware)................................................................136
Example Three (be careful what you ask for, you just might get it) ......................................................138
Example Four (installation file system configuration) ..........................................................................139
Part A (custom configuration in installation file system)...................................................................139
Part B (Installation file system custom network config).....................................................................140
Example Five (handling user input)..................................................................................................140
Part A (restricting the values that a variable can take using an enum) ..............................................141
Part B (looking at the same thing when we don’t have an enum).....................................................142
Example Six (handling command line arguments) .............................................................................142
Example Seven (regular expression matching)..................................................................................143
Configuration parameters in the installation file system .........................................................................148
Networking..................................................................................................................................148
Problems that can be solved with _hp_lanadmin_args..................................................................150
Control........................................................................................................................................151
Environment variables ...................................................................................................................152
Managing configurations with unifdef.............................................................................................153
Coping with auto_adm and boot changes in HP-UX B.11.23 ...............................................................155
Looking at auto_adm ...................................................................................................................156
ISL and CONF format data ............................................................................................................156
CONF data..............................................................................................................................156
ISL data ...................................................................................................................................158
Usage examples...........................................................................................................................158
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