Non-interactive Ignite of a Vpar

[John Sherry]

Problem: I need to resize the Root Disk (vg00 – LVM) on over 150 HP-UX 11iv1 Vpars using make_net_recovery and Ignite. I need to automate this process as much as possible.

Resources:
• 2 dedicated Ignite Servers, one per subnet
• A trusted server that can be used to automate command execution on the Ignite servers and target client systems (e.g. running make_net_recovery, updating the client system_cfg file or populating the instl_boottab file on the Ignite server, or running vparboot –p … -I … on the client).

If I could use bootsys I could initiate a non-interactive Ignite using the “-w” option, however, I am restricted to the vparboot command which is very limited in its available options.

Question:
What changes could I make to the Ignite Server configuration and the Ignite config files generated by make_net_recovery to launch a fully automated, non-interactive, ask no questions Ignite (or as close as possible) using the vparboot command?

[Todd McDaniel_1]

John,

Here is a great link for this.

http://docs.hp.com/en/T1335-90018/ch04s04.html

[Todd McDaniel_1]

oops I hit enter too fast. that was the wrong link.

http://docs.hp.com/en/T1335-90018/ch03s09.html

[Todd McDaniel_1]

one more great link I found...


http://docs.hp.com/en/6770/golden.images.pdf