Access Ignite server without booting

[Coolmar]

Is there a way to access the ignite server to see what bundles are available on it, or install patches from it without booting into it? All the documentation I can find only speaks of booting into ignite. I also have patches and driver bundles on my ignite server that I just want to install and there is no need to boot. I know I can "swinstall -s server:/path of bundle" but the bundles are in various directories and I would like to just bring up ignite and then see what is available from the /var/opt/ignite/INDEX file and install from there.

Thanks!

[Mel Burslan]

the functionality you are talking about is called a network depot server, not necessarily the ignite server. A physical server (or a virtual one at that) can function as an ignite server and network software depot server, but when you boot from the ignite depot, it needs to go through a different process than when you just want to install a software bundle.

if you want to use a software bundle, already built into a golden system image located under your ignite server, I am pretty sure it is not possible to do such a thing directly. But let's say you have software bundles under /swdepot directory, you then need to register these bundles as software depots, as follows

swreg -l depot /swdepot/Bundle1
swreg -l depot /swdepot/Bundle2
...
swreg -l depot /swdepot/BundleN

then when you issue the command

swinstall -s server

you will see all of these depots listed for selection to you.

hope this helps

you should be able to

[Scot Bean]

'swlist -l depot @ ' will show you any registered depots already on your Ignite server.

You can simply run 'swinstall -s <> @ ' to use these depots for remote installs without invoking Ignite at all.