IGNITE Question

[Grant Wenstrand]

I have been reading a lot about the Ignite-UX utility in this forum, and more about it at HP's Ignite site. It sounds like a perfect solution to meet our current needs.

I am unclear about one thing though. Must I use it in a client/server environment? Or is it possible to use it on a standalone host? i.e., make a golden copy of a localhost, and restore it locally.

Thanks,

Grant

[Patrick Wessel · Accepted solution]

You don't necessarily need to use Ignite in a Client/Server environment. It is pretty easy to create a golden image of a standalone host and restore that host from tape

[CHRIS_ANORUO]

You can use Ignite-Ux on a client/server environment as well as a stand alone system. It is possible to use both make_recovery and make_net_recovery on a single system. The only issue to be concerned about when doing this is to make sure that the version of Ignite-UX that is insalled on the system is consistent.

[Tim Malnati]

I typically install Ignite on all the servers just to make things a bit easier if nothing else. It has no problem operating standalone with localhost. In my environment, I mirror the root vg with external Jamaica drives for hot swap, etc an all the production machines. This leaves the internal drive that is great to use for things that don't change much like patches, Ignite and the like. Stuff that I can live without until an appropriate outage period.

[Bill Hassell]

Ignite/UX has several modes that can be useful. The most common is the vg00 recovery and/or disk layout change. In this mode, you make a recovery tape (or using make_net_recovery, store the image on another machine) and then restore the tape to the same (or different system), possibly changing disk sizes and types.

Another mode is the Goloden image respository where a set of standard images can be downloaded either locally or remotely. In the local mode, the user starts the recovery process on their running system to replace the entire vg00 volume. For many 9000 systems, the computer can boot from the network so a cold install from a Golden image is possible.

In the remote mode, the remote system is setup fro remote login (ie, .rhosts) and then the image can be 'pushed' to the remote system.

Golden images may include additional products from the same or different depots and cam also run customization scripts.

The latest version is available from http://software.hp.com and is version 2.4.