topic Re: Ignite Image Push in Operating System - HP-UX

Ignite Image Push

KPS — Tue, 28 Oct 2003 15:25:31 GMT

Hi,

Just a quick question about pushing a Golden Image...

It seems every time we push a Golden Image, we see different results as the image is configuring and installing. What I mean is that it gives the percentages of how far along it is and sometimes it doesn't. Presently, we're doing a Golden Image push to a client from our Ignite Server, and it's not giving us the Percentage Milestones of how far along it is in the process....

Does anyone know why this would be happening intermittently and if there's anything we can do to change this?

Thanks,

Ken Spenard

Re: Ignite Image Push

Pramod_4 — Tue, 28 Oct 2003 15:32:22 GMT

Check your LAN speed setting on your Ignite server as well as client. I would recommend using fixed speed rather than auto negotiation. I had seen this sort of issue when auto negotiation was turned on.

Pramod

Re: Ignite Image Push

Steven E. Protter — Tue, 28 Oct 2003 15:34:18 GMT

If you are using the same golden image and your /var/opt/../INDEX files are consistent, you should get the same behavior push to push.

The factors that effect the speed of the push include the amount of traffic on the network backbone or switch your machine is hung on.

instl_adm -T will check the consistency of your files and report errrors. Correct any errors.

The percentage milestones are not very unreliable indicators of progress. Its a programming issue with the product.

SEP

Re: Ignite Image Push

KPS — Tue, 28 Oct 2003 15:39:05 GMT

Thanks to both of you for the quick responses... I did check my lan speed on my NIC on the IGNITE-UX Server and it does have Auto-Negotiate turned off. It's set to 100/Full Duplex.

Thanks again, and much appreciated!!!!

Re: Ignite Image Push

Pratyush Paul_1 — Wed, 29 Oct 2003 09:30:51 GMT

Ken,

This is what you have to do in order to ignite using 100 MBPS full duplex on your ignite server.

#instl_adm -d ( check to see the lan config)

#instl_adm -d > /tmp/cfg

#vi /tmp/cfg ( add this line)

init _hp_lanadmin_args="-S 1"

#instl_adm -f /tmp/cfg

#instl_adm -d ( check to see the new entry)

Then go ahead and do the ignite. It will be 100MBPS full duplex.

Please let me know if you have any questions.

Thanks

Pratyush