golden Image, nfs mount, boot error

[Syedfurquan]

Hello Experts,

I am using hp-ux 11.31 on rx6600. I have created a HP Integrity Virtual machines and trying to boot it from the golden image created on the physical host.

I have created golden image but when trying to boot getting below error:

1. nfs mount: 10.1.42.5:/var/opt/ignite/clients: Permission denied
NOTE:    Retrying: "/sbin/fs/nfs/mount -orw 10.1.42.5:/var/opt/ignite/clients
         /var/opt/ignite/clients"
nfs mount: 10.1.42.5:/var/opt/ignite/clients: Permission denied
NOTE:    NFS mount (/sbin/fs/nfs/mount -orw 10.1.42.5:/var/opt/ignite/clients
         /var/opt/ignite/clients) failed, see messages above.

2. * Download_mini-system:  Complete
       * Loading_software:  Begin
       * Installing boot area on disk.
       * Formatting HP Service Partition.
       * Enabling swap areas.
       * Number of archives to install: 1
       * Processing the archive source (HP-UX Golden Image).
nfs mount: 10.1.42.5:/var/opt/ignite/archives/Rel_B.11.31: Permission denied
NOTE:    Retrying: "/sbin/fs/nfs/mount -oro
         10.1.42.5:/var/opt/ignite/archives/Rel_B.11.31
         /tmp/ign_configure/archive_nfs"
ERROR:   Cannot load OS archive(s) (HP-UX Golden Image)


The configuration process has incurred an error, choose one of the following options

        1) abort and reboot
        2) ignore error and continue
        3) push a shell for troubleshooting the problem
        (At any time within the shell, type "exit" to return to this menu)


# showmount -a
rx6600:/var/opt/ignite/clients
rx6600:/var/opt/ignite/recovery/golden_images
# showmount -e
export list for rx6600:
/var/opt/ignite/clients              10.1.42.5
/var/opt/ignite/archives/Rel_B.11.31 10.1.42.5

Please help how to resolve thsi issue. Tried everything from my side but not able to resolve this.

Regards,

[Dennis Handly]

>1. nfs mount: 10.1.42.5:/var/opt/ignite/clients: Permission denied

You could allow every machine to mount it if you can't figure out the right FQDN or IP.

[Syedfurquan]

10.1.42.5 is the same physical server on which ignite image I am creating and also HP Integrity virtual machine is created on this host only. Both the server is connected to a dedicated swith with no vlans created.

where I need to look to fix this error, "nfs mount: 10.1.42.5:/var/opt/ignite/clients: Permission denied"

Regards,

[Dennis Handly]

>where I need to look to fix this error, "nfs mount: 10.1.42.5:/var/opt/ignite/clients: Permission denied"

This is a problem on the NFS server.  The NFS client isn't on the list of clients that can access the share RW.

[Syedfurquan]

Please find details :

showmount -e
export list for rx6600:
/var/opt/ignite/clients              10.1.42.5
/var/opt/ignite/archives/Rel_B.11.31 10.1.42.5

Here both /var/opt/ignite/clients have rw=10.1.42.5

/var/opt/ignite/archives/Rel_B.11.31 rw=10.1.42.5

Now where to look for the root cause.

[Dennis Handly]

10.1.42.5 is the IP of the NFS server.  What is the IP of the VM, the NFS client?

What does /usr/sbin/share show?

[Syedfurquan]

> 10.1.42.5 is the IP of the NFS server.  What is the IP of the VM, the NFS client?

SIce there is no OS on the vm so no IP assigned, but I have edited /etc/opt/ignite/instl_boottab and given the IP 10.1.42.12 which i want to give to VM.

tail /etc/opt/ignite/instl_boottab
# Example: (lines are intentionally commented out)
# 15.1.54.125                             # IP address usable by any client
# 15.1.54.126:080009123456:19960116132331 # Entry usable by all (used already)
# 15.1.54.127:::reserve                   # Reserve this entry once used.
# 15.1.54.138:080009123457::reserve       # Reserve an IP-Addr for specific host

# IGNITE_UX_COPYRIGHT 1993 2002 #
# "(C) Copyright 1993-2002 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P." #
# IGNITE_UX_COPYRIGHT #
16.90.48.75:0x00156004A2FA::reserve

currently no access to server since it is midnight so can't share  /usr/sbin/share show  o/p, will be able to share by morning only.

Regards,

[Syedfurquan]

Requested o/p

#  /usr/sbin/share
-               /var/opt/ignite/clients   sec=sys,anon=2,rw=10.1.42.5   ""
-               /var/opt/ignite/archives   sec=sys,anon=2,rw=10.1.42.5   ""

[Syedfurquan]

Please anyone share documents for creating golden image for hp-ux 11.31.

Regards,

[Patrick Wallek]

The latest Ignite/UX Administration manual is located here:

http://h20566.www2.hp.com/portal/site/hpsc/template.BINARYPORTLET/public/kb/docDisplay/resource.process/?spf_p.tpst=kbDocDisplay_ws_BI&spf_p.rid_kbDocDisplay=docDisplayResURL&javax.portlet.begCacheTok=com.vignette.cachetoken&spf_p.rst_kbDocDisplay=wsrp-resourceState%3DdocId%253Demr_na-c04015128-2%257CdocLocale%253Den_US&javax.portlet.endCacheTok=com.vignette.cachetoken

Here are the NFS options that the manual recommends (located on page 94 of the link above):

2. Set up NFS exports and check custom configuration files.

Because of preexisting Ignite-UX file system layouts, the locations of certain files are automatically moved when Ignite-UX Version C.7.9 or later is installed . These files are /opt/ ignite/Version, /var/opt/ignite/INDEX, and /var/opt/ignite/config.local.

In addition, certain other customer-created config files might need to be moved or edited.

First, edit /etc/exports or /etc/dfs/dfstab as appropriate for the version of HP-UX running on the Ignite-UX server.

For Ignite servers running HP-UX 11i v2 or earlier:

# cat /etc/exports

/opt/ignite/data -ro

/var/opt/ignite/config -ro

/var/opt/ignite/data -ro

/var/opt/ignite/clients -anon=2

# exportfs -a

For Ignite servers running HP-UX 11i v3:

# cat /etc/dfs/dfstab

share -F nfs -o ro /opt/ignite/data

share -F nfs -o ro /var/opt/ignite/data

share -F nfs -o anon=2 /var/opt/ignite/clients

# shareall

If there are any customer-created config files that are outside of the directories exported by NFS, they must be moved under /var/opt/ignite/data.