topic Re: Installation in Operating System - HP-UX

Installation

chethan — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 02:16:55 GMT

I want to install a depot file to multiple HPUX systems running HPUX 11i v1 and v2 simultaneosly from a centralized server.
How can I implement this in my server running HPUX.

Can anyone help me out to implement this?

Re: Installation

Duncan Edmonstone — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 03:51:05 GMT

Hi,

Its perfectly possible either from the command line or through the sd-ux gui to install to several systems from a central location.

Have a look at the man page for swinstall.

Pay attention to the section entitled 'Remote Operation'.

HTH

Duncan

Re: Installation

Steven E. Protter — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 03:51:57 GMT

Shalom,

You'll need an Ignite server and an image for each OS version, based on the Core OS.

SEP

Re: Installation

Duncan Edmonstone — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 03:59:29 GMT

SEP,

I don't think he wants to do OS installs! (at least thats not how I read it).

Chethan, if your just installing additional HPUX software from the depots (and not doing complete OS installs), you don't need an Ignoire server (you might need one for other purposes though...)

HTH

Duncan

Re: Installation

chethan — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 06:56:03 GMT

yes, i am trying to install a xyz.depot to multiple nodes.Please provide me a command to implement this with switches too.

Re: Installation

Duncan Edmonstone — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 07:31:27 GMT

aahhh I see - you can't be bothered to rtfm and you want it on a plate?

ok lets assume you have your software called foo in a sd-ux depot in a directory called /bar on nodeA and you want to install it to nodeB nodeC and nodeD

So first you need to make sure that nodes B, C and D trust nodeA for installtions so you need to run the following on each:

/usr/lib/sw/mx/setaccess nodeA

Now we should be able to run the following in nodeA

swinstall -s nodeA:/foo bar @ nodeB nodeC nodeD

And that should install the software bar from the depot /foo on nodeA onto the other 3 nodes.

Of course there are lots of extra variables that can come into play when installing software such as whether there is sufficient space, whether there are dependencies, whethere they require a reboot or not, but given that you can't be bothered to rtfm I guess you will have to trust to luck... personally if these were my systems I'd want to be sure that I understoof how to use swinstall from the command line on a single node before wanting to go and run it on many...

HTH

Duncan