Ignite-UX

Ignite-UX addresses your need to perform system installations and deployment, often on a large scale. With Ignite-UX, you can:

Create and reuse standard system configurations.
Archive a standard system configuration and use that archive to replicate systems.
Create customized processes to allow interactive and unattended installs.
More-easily recover OS and applications after crashes and hardware failures.

Summary of Change

Ignite-UX (B.5.0) for HP-UX 11i v2 has incorporated the following changes:

Support for HP-UX 11i v2 Itanium®-based installations.
Support for the new HP-UX Service Partition (HPSP) created at the end of the boot disk used by Online and Offline Diagnostics to hold tools and system data.
Enhanced support for dual media (tape and CD/DVD) recovery.
Enhancements to the mod_kernel keyword of the instl_adm(4) command to support new /stand/system syntax used in this release.

Impact

Ignite-UX can be used to install and recover HP-UX 11i v2 on Ignite-UX servers and clients. You can execute an expert system recovery using either tape or CD/DVD. Additionally, you can use Ignite-UX to create the HP-UX Service Partition when installing HP-UX 11i v2.

Compatibility

There are restrictions regarding the use of both Ignite-UX and the new Bastille product. Details can be found at the Ignite-UX Web site at http://www.software.hp.com/products/IUX/. For more information about Bastille, see “HP-UX Bastille”.

The changes in VxVM 3.1 (delivered in HP-UX 11i v1.6) to 3.5 (delivered in this release), most notably the use of static versus dynamic major numbers, means that systems using VxVM 3.1 on HP-UX 11i v1.6 cannot be installed or recovered using Ignite-UX version B.5.0. If you are using VxVM on HP-UX 11i v1.6 you should not upgrade Ignite-UX past version B.4.4. For further information on VxVM, see “VERITAS Volume Manager (VxVM) 3.5”.

Performance

There are no performance issues.

Documentation

The instl_adm(4) manpage has been updated accordingly.

The Ignite-UX Administration Guide, B2355-90788, Edition 13 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 is available at: http://www.software.hp.com/products/IUX/

Obsolescence

Not applicable.