Getting IgniteUX working correctly - advice needed

[Tim O'Connell]

We have just moved from Unixware to HPUX 11 & have bought 2 HP servers. I have got Ignite working but I want to be sure what I did is correct. Taking one example, I wish to run Ignite on SERVER1 & create the output(recovery) file on SERVER2. Firstly I got NFS working on both servers.
On SERVER2 I then exported /var/opt/ignite/recovery/archives/server1 (available to everyone).
On SERVER1 I ran /opt/ignite/bin/make_net_recovery â s SERVER1 â i. and got the following error:

./make_net_recovery -s SERVER1-i
* Creating NFS mount directories for configuration files.
Permission denied
ERROR: Could not NFS mount directory /var/opt/ignite/clients on SERVER1. The
exports file on SERVER1 should contain the entry
"/var/opt/ignite/clients -anon=2". Ensure that /var/opt/ignite/clients
has been exported using the "exportfs -av" command.
ERROR: Failed mounting directory
/var/opt/ignite/recovery/client_mnt:/Connection refused (errno = 239)
ERROR: Failed to creaet NFS mount directories for configuration files.

So on SERVER1 I exported /var/opt/ignite/clients and ran make_net_recovery again putting it the destination host as SERVER2 & no. of archives=1& it ran OK A large file (recovery) was created on SERVER2 in the format 2003-12-29,09:10. This , I reckon, is the file I need to archive off & keep.
There are also files created on SERVER1 in a directory called /var/opt/ignite/clients/0X00306E4C?F1C. Are these required for the recovery or is it just the file on SERVER2.

Does the above sound OK?.

Many Thanks in anticipation.

Rgds,

[Leif Halvarsson_2]

Hi,

Normally you don't need to do any manual configurations with Ignite. Just install the Ignite software on SERVER2, start the Ignite GUI, run Server Setup (from GUI) and then Create Network Recovery Archive (also from the GUI on the Ignite server). You dont need to do anything on the client. And (of course) no files on the client is needed for recovery.

[T. M. Louah · Accepted solution]

It is straight forward, you will find almost all how-to's in the
"Ignite-UX Administration Guide" http://docs.hp.com/hpux/pdf/B2355-90829.pdf

take time to review the FAQs :
http://www.software.hp.com/products/IUX/faq.html

There is an interesting tutorial when IUX GUI is run that you 'd take a tour of:
# /opt/ignite/bin/ignite
When run for the 1st time u 'd get:
"No clients were found. This may be the first time you are running Ignite-UX ..."
->hit Ok then select "Tutorial and Demo... "

[Elena Leontieva]

Tom,

Your Ignite server and a client (the server you want to create an ignite tape for) should resolve each other hostname/IP address.

The /etc/exports file on the Ignite server contains at least two lines if you have one client:
/var/opt/ignite/clients -anon=2
/var/opt/ignite/recovery/archives/client_hostname -anon=2,access=client_hostname

The second line shows the default location of the ignite archive file for the particular client, where the client_hostname will be the hostname of your client.
I think the /etc/exports file is created when you set up the Ignite server through GUI.
HTH
Elena.