Ignite-UX server set up

[Nisar Ahmad]

Hi There

I want to configure Ignite-UX server/client. Any idea which is the latest version and how much space I should have on file system atleast ? Can I download s/w or sould user Application CD ?

Thanks

Nisar

[Patrick Wallek]

Information on Ignite can be found here:

http://h20293.www2.hp.com/portal/swdepot/displayProductInfo.do?productNumber=IGNITEUXB

Documentation for Ignite:

http://www.docs.hp.com/en/IUX/infolib.html

For storage of your Ignite images you want a filesystem with SEVERAL GB of storage. How much depends on the number of systems you have, the size of the images you will create and the number you want to keep on line.

[Mike Shilladay]

Hi Nisar,

The previous posts should give you all the technical info that you need.

For your information we use Ignite-UX C.6.1.44 which is stable and adequate for our needs.

As for sizes, it depends on how many images of the server you require and as a rule of thumb, I allow for the following, based on creating an image of vg00 only. (Be careful not to include any crash dumps you may have unless you really want to keep them, has a nasty habit of inflating the size unecessarily. I also assume that there is not a large amount of applications loaded in vg00.

hp-ux 10.20 - 1GB
hp-ux 11.0 - 1-2GB
hp-ux 11.11 - 3GB
hp-ux 11.23 - 4GB

Don't forget that you will need 2 ignite servers to cover all servers. eg if you have servers a, b, c, and d, servers a, b and c image to the server d, and the server d creates and ignite image on either servers a, b or c.

There is an issue with this release where the default number ignite images is set to 2, however, I find that renaming the file and moving to another directory is much more meaningful. This limit can be overriden with the -n switch.

If you are creating images of Integrity servers, you will need an entry in the /etc/bootptab file, an example is shown below:

:\
bf=/opt/ignite/boot/nbp.efi:\
hn:\
vm=rfc1048:\
ht=ether:\
ha=0012345B16E5:\
ip=172.1.14.1:\
sm=255.255.255.0

You will also need to ensure that any filesystems on which you plan to store the images on is set for large files. You can modify the file system by using the command and example is shown below:

fsadm -F vxfs -o largefiles /dev/vg13/rlvol13

To ensure that the capability of largefiles is set at every reboot you will need a line something like this in /etc/fstab

/dev/vg12/lvol2 rw, largefiles, delaylog 0 2

You will need to export the relevent directories that you choose.

I have written a complete guide for our site using Ignite/UX, but for security reasons cannot replicate it here.

Any questions please ask,

Hope this helps for you,

Mike.