Solving Problems with Ignite-UX

Once you have an Ignite-UX server installed and configured for your environment, you'll find that it can help you solve many common installation and recovery problems.

One-step installation

Once you configure a system with a common configuration that you want pushed to other systems, use Ignite-UX to either manually or automatically Ignite-UX each client system. This common configuration can include any supported HP-UX 10.x, 11.0, or 11i OS, plus you can add any required patches and applications. This configuration can be bundled into an OS archive, either on the Ignite-UX server or any system in your environment. You can also pull bits from an Ignite-UX server and install the client locally. These processes are explained in Chapters 2 through 5.

Re-install HP-UX or apply patches quickly

You can quickly re-install the OS on an existing system after repair from either an OS archive or SD depots and apply patches. See Chapter 6 “Installing Patches with Ignite-UX”and Chapter 7 “Using Golden System Images” for details.

Scanning a system

With Ignite-UX, you can easily scan a system, or all systems in your environment, to see what hardware is present, how the disks are used, what kernel modifications have been made and what software has been loaded. See Chapter 5 “Installing HP-UX with Ignite-UX on Clients from a Server”.

Automate installations

Using Ignite-UX's configuration files allow you to completely automate the OS installation process on any systems in your environment, as explained in Chapter 9 “Automating Installations”

Quick system recovery

In addition to OS archives for initial installations, you can create recovery archives on tape (access from a drive on the client) or on any system in your environment (access via the network). See Chapter 11 “ System Recovery ” for details.