Viewing and Printing a Manifest

From the Ignite-UX screen

To view a system manifest from Ignite-UX, select a client icon and click: Actions -> View/Print Manifest. This is also available from the Client Actions menu (right-click on client icon). The system search may take a moment.

The manifest provides customer order information for the selected target system.

You can view or print the manifest when a target client is "Complete", as indicated by the Client Status screen. The online information is scrollable.

The manifest contains the following information:

Using the print_manifest command

To print the system manifest from the server command line, enter:

/opt/ignite/bin/print_manifest

The ASCII file is printed to stdout using format instructions from the manifest template file (explained below).

Location of manifest files

Manifest files are saved on the server in:

/var/opt/ignite/clients/LLA/manifest/manifest.info

and on the target client system in:

/var/opt/ignite/local/manifest/manifest.info

If the client data is moved to history, that data includes both the client's manifest and config file. Both these files can be recalled at a later time.

Customizing manifest output

Add printer formatting — Include the -e option to add PCL control codes to the output, adding bold headings, etc. to the output.

Print an existing manifest file — Include the -s option to use previously stored data, rather than starting a new system search.

Specify a template file —Use the -t option to specify a template file to customize the manifest output to your needs. A sample template file is: /var/opt/ignite/local/manifest/template.def. The template uses pcl3 formatting commands (similar to printf), allowing you to structure the output as desired. To create your template, be sure to edit a copy of this file, not the original.

For example, if you want a condensed, machine-readable output, you can remove all blank lines and headings from your template. This will also speed-up the manifest generation. This command prints a condensed manifest using the existing manifest file and referencing a template you created named condensed.def:

print_manifest -s -t /var/opt/ignite/local/manifest/condensed.def

You can also access the raw manifest data via a script or program. This file is updated on the Ignite-UX server each time print_manifest is run without the -s option: /var/opt/ignite/clients/LLA/manifest/manifest.info