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:

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 OUT OF CONNECT TIME warning, if it displays.
Start HP Stage/iX.
:STAGEMAN
Remove any old staging areas. Use UNINSTALL in stageman to accomplish this in the best way.
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.

5.8 Preparing a Staging Area for Remote Distribution

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