topic Re: Ignite tools Redhat deployment for Itanium servers? in Operating System - Linux

Ignite tools Redhat deployment for Itanium servers?

Jimmy Tom_2 — Wed, 16 Mar 2005 13:08:01 GMT

I need to deploy Redhat on multiple servers on a network. Are there any tools that I can purchase to assist this? I am looking for tools like the HP-UX Ignite product.

Thanks in advance

Re: Ignite tools Redhat deployment for Itanium servers?

Steven E. Protter — Wed, 16 Mar 2005 17:44:30 GMT

Ignite has not been ported to Linux. It would really be a total re-write.

Some ideas:
http://www.mondorescue.org/

My servers have Intel cards. Intel makes it childs play to create a boot disk or cd for their cards that boots and network enables you.

Under this scheme you can boot, connect to a network server and save a system image of the entire hard disk for replication.

Alas, you scenario does not perfectly fit into any of the circumstances. It its an HP Itanium Server I doubt mondorescue is going to work.

Seems HP-UX is worth paying for if you ask me, which you didn't. Thats because with HP-UX IPF you get Ignite for free.

SEP

Re: Ignite tools Redhat deployment for Itanium servers?

Serviceguard for Linux — Thu, 17 Mar 2005 01:26:10 GMT

Check out the "Rapid Deployment Pack"

http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/servers/management/rdp.html

Re: Ignite tools Redhat deployment for Itanium servers?

Gratien D'haese_2 — Thu, 17 Mar 2005 03:00:14 GMT

You could use mkCDrec (http://mkcdrec.org/) to replicate Linux system on IA64 platform.
It is kind of mondorescue, but has been ported to Linux/ia64 and Linux_x64

Re: Ignite tools Redhat deployment for Itanium servers?

Vitaly Karasik_1 — Thu, 17 Mar 2005 10:09:49 GMT

And if you speak about installation, RH kickstart works well for mass installation!

Re: Ignite tools Redhat deployment for Itanium servers?

Ross Minkov — Sun, 20 Mar 2005 23:37:37 GMT

http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-9-Manual/custom-guide/part-install-info.html

https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list