HP e3000 MPE/iX Release 6.0 System Software Maintenance Manual (30216-90272)

118 Chapter5
Modifying Your System
5.8 Preparing a Staging Area for Remote Distribution
5.8 Preparing a Staging Area for Remote Distribution
Perform the steps in this section only if you are planning to Distribute a Staging Area to a
Remote system.
If you are performing a Manage Patch by Staging Area for only a Local system, skip
sections 5.8 and 5.9, and proceed to “5.10 Setting a Staging Area.”
NOTE You can only use the EXPORT and IMPORT commands of Stage/iX for applying
patches to systems that are on the identical base. Stage/iX will not verify
whether or not your machines are on the same base release.
To prepare for distributing staging areas:
1. Log on from the console (if you are not already logged on), start the spooler, and
streams device.
:HELLO MANAGER.SYS,INSTALL;HIPRI
:LIMIT 1,1
:SPOOLER print_device ;START
:STREAMS streams_device
Common print_device values are LP or 6. A common streams_device value is 10.
Ignore the GROUP OUR OF CONNECT TIME warning, if it displays.
2. Start HP Stage/iX.
:STAGEMAN
3. Prepare the staging area, execute the EXPORT command.
STAGEMAN>EXPORT sa_name ;option
where sa_name is the name of the staging area to be distributed. Record your sa_name
on your checklist.
option specifies the export file mode. The default is NOPACK. The EXPORT options are:
TAPE creates a regular STORE tape, which can be imported on the remote
machine with the ;TAPE option. For the tape option, reply to the tape
request.
PACK creates a single packaged file in the directory /SYS/hpstage/export
with the staging area name as the filename.
NOPACK places all files related to the staging area in the /SYS/hpstage/export
directory.
• Preparing a Staging Area for Remote Distribution completed. Go to the
next section on your checklist.