Ignite-UX

The Ignite-UX (Ignite-UX) product is an HP-UX administration toolset that helps you do the following:

install HP-UX 11.0 and 11i v1 (B.11.11), v1.6 (B.11.22), v2 (B.11.23) on multiple PA-RISC and/or Itanium-based clients on your network;
create custom install configurations, or golden images, for use in multiple installations on clients;
recover HP-UX clients remotely;
create custom recovery media including tape, and CD-ROM;
manage and monitor multiple client installation sessions.

Summary of Change

Version B.5.2 delivers the following:

An issue with the installation and recovery of HP-UX 10.20 and 11.00 clients that was discovered in the Ignite-UX B.5.0.x and B.5.1.x versions has been resolved. For more information, see customer bulletin Part # 5990-7242 at the HP IT Resource Center at http://itrc.hp.com/ and the Ignite-UX Web site at the HP Software Depot at http://www.software.hp.com/products/IUX.
The make_*_recovery tools have been updated to:
- support file sizes up to 8 GB for HP-UX 11i v1 and later, though these tools only support file sizes up to 2 GB for the 11.00 and 10.20 releases;
- recover mount points in the essentials list that are in non-root volume group using the options of -x include and -x inc_entire;
- describe the function of the _hp_ignore_sw_impact variable in the WARNINGS section of instl_adm(4);
- install an archive file size that is greater than 2 GB.
Installation and recovery of Itanium-based and PA-RISC servers and clients now occurs automatically by Ignite-UX detecting the hardware type and installing the correct operating system binaries accordingly.
Large file impacts, where the file size is greater than 2 GB, are now computed accurately.
The call to “vxdisk online”, when configuring VxVM layouts, was removed as it was unnecessary and could cause problems in client installs in limited circumstances.
The GUI has been enhanced to allow the _hp_addnl_fs_free_pct parameter to be modified from the Additional... button of the Basic tab. This allows you to more finely tune disk space allocation. See instl_adm(4).

Impact

You can now install and recover clients running HP-UX 10.20 and 11.00 using the B.5.2.x version of Ignite-UX.

An additional 5MB (approximately) of disk space is needed to install the needed operating system binary files into /opt/ignite/bin.

Ignite-UX now provides greater support for large files.

Compatibility

HP recommends that you avoid the use of Ignite-UX versions B.5.0.x and B.5.1.x. For specifics regarding this recommendation, see the Ignite-UX Web site at the HP Software Depot:

http://software.hp.com/products/IUX

Performance

There are no known performance issues.

Documentation

The make_tape_recovery(1M) and make_net_recovery(1M) manpages have been updated accordingly.

The Ignite-UX Administration Guide, B2355-90834, Edition 15 and later, has been updated to reflect all changes to the product and can be found at http://www.docs.hp.com.

Ignite-UX product information and documentation, including the Release Notes, is available at http://www.software.hp.com/products/IUX.

Obsolescence

Not applicable.