topic Re: Best practices Ignite in Operating System - HP-UX

Best practices Ignite

Eli Daniel — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 14:00:48 GMT

good morning,
Best practices need to ignite and whether you can run the auto ignite
Please I need your help
version of my operating system is 11.23

Re: Best practices Ignite

Torsten. — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 14:04:12 GMT

A more detailed question would be better, I think.

What is meant by "auto ignite"?

Meanwhile see

http://www.hp.com/go/ignite-ux

Re: Best practices Ignite

Eli Daniel — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 14:08:23 GMT

Refers can ignite if you can run manually create a task to perform ignte

Re: Best practices Ignite

Eli Daniel — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 14:10:10 GMT

on the homepage of the meeting not ignite best practices, installation documentation only

Re: Best practices Ignite

Torsten. — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 14:14:22 GMT

I'm still not sure what the question is ...

Re: Best practices Ignite

Javed Khan_1 — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 14:16:59 GMT

you can put a cron job on client to run make_net_recovery during off load timings.
Additionally you can send result of cron to you mail id.

Re: Best practices Ignite

Eli Daniel — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 14:31:30 GMT

con respecto a las mejores practicas del ignite?
tienen algo para la configuracion y mantenimiento?

Re: Best practices Ignite

Eli Daniel — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 14:31:44 GMT

with respect to ignite the best practices?
have something for the configuration and maintenance?

Re: Best practices Ignite

Johnson Punniyalingam — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 14:35:57 GMT

script for "automatic" by putting under the crontab

# more os_make_tape_recovery.sh

/opt/ignite/bin/make_tape_recovery -x inc_entire=vg00 -Iv -a /dev/rmt/0mn
> /opt/sysadminScripts/osbackup.log.`date +%d%m%Y` 2>&1
mt -f /dev/rmt/0mn rewind;
mt -f /dev/rmt/0mn off;

please take note /dev/rmt/0mn -> tape drive path

/opt/sysadminScripts/ -> location of my Os_backup_script -> its depends to can copy or create the script as per your preferred loaction

Thanks,
Johnson

Re: Best practices Ignite

Steven E. Protter — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 14:36:10 GMT

Shalom,

Best practice is to use cron to run your Ignite job, make_tape_recovery or make_net_recovery

If using tape, make sure a tape is in the drive before the appointed hour.

It is also good to have a DR test where you actually restore a system from Ignite. Its not a good solution if you are not sure it will work.

SEP

Re: Best practices Ignite

Eli Daniel — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 14:42:19 GMT

in this case is used make_net_recovery

Re: Best practices Ignite

Johnson Punniyalingam — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 14:42:46 GMT

automatic Ignite backup "by tapes"

as mentioned by <> you must make sure load tape before firing of the ignite backup.

hence had experience "/" file system has reached about "98 %" due to one of our operator forgot to load the tapes resulted in create very large file under /dev/rmt/

Automatic Ignite "for more than 2 Servers"
Best practice to setup Ignite Server

Re: Best practices Ignite

Johnson Punniyalingam — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 14:44:24 GMT

>>in this case is used make_net_recovery<<

Yes , You are right,

make_net_recovery -> for Ignite Server

make_tape_recovery --> for Ignite backup via tape

Re: Best practices Ignite

Javed Khan_1 — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 15:09:35 GMT

Hi,
if you have software contract linked with your itrc account , search for software recovery handbook (ignite ux ) , this will give all info needed to setup and manage ignite ux
Javed

Re: Best practices Ignite

Fabian Briseño — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 15:27:39 GMT

Hello Eli.
from personal experience schedule your ignite backup in crontab, I have that way, ignite backup jobs run during bussiness off hours.

for example, I have this in a script.
/opt/ignite/bin/make_net_recovery -s mx45rt -A -n 3 -P s -x inc_entire=vg00 -x exclude=/SAParchives -x exclude=/usrtemporal

hope this helps.

Re: Best practices Ignite

Eli Daniel — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 15:37:00 GMT

thanks Fabian.
I will make with crontab
how often should be performed to ignite a server?
few ignite recommend storing files on server?

Re: Best practices Ignite

Javed Khan_1 — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 15:40:27 GMT

Hi,

Once in a month should be a ok

Javed

Re: Best practices Ignite

Fabian Briseño — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 15:52:24 GMT

Hello Eli.
I run them once a month.

But according to best practices you should also run them before you modify kernel and install a patch.

Also I you setup a ignite server/client environment, ignite images take up as lot of space for example, I have a mixed environment of hpux 11.11 and 11.23 servers.

images for 11.11 server are about 4 to 5 GB

images for 11.23 are from 8 to 12 GB.

so take this into account

as recommended im only backing up vg00 (only O.S. related info), if you have anithing not related to O.S. in vg00 exclude like the example I given you above.

If you need anything else, let me know.

have a great day

Re: Best practices Ignite

Eli Daniel — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 16:00:59 GMT

Thanks