Ignite-UX

[Martin Webb]

How do I install only a particular software i.e xyz.depot on the remote client from Ignite
command line

[Pete Randall]

Martin,

I believe that is outside the scope of what Ignite is intended to do. Quoting from the Ignite summary page ( http://www.docs.hp.com/en/IUX/ ):

"The Ignite-UX (Ignite-UX) product is an HP-UX administration toolset that helps you do the following:

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install HP-UX 11.0 and 11i v1 (B.11.11), v1.6 (B.11.22), v2 (B.11.23) on multiple PA-RISC and/or Itanium®-based[1] clients on your network;
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create custom install configurations, or golden images, for use in multiple installations on clients;
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recover HP-UX clients remotely;
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create custom recovery media including tape, CD and DVD;
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manage and monitor multiple client installation sessions."

Ignite is really intended to be a disaster recovery tool, and it is sometimes used to make and install "golden images", but it's always on a whole client basis, not on a particular software product. You need to look at swinstall.


Pete

[Simon Hargrave]

If you have a software depot on host A and and you want to install a selection to host B then you would use something like: -

hostb$ swinstall -s hosta:/location/of/software.depot

This will "pull" the software from host A, assuming the depot is registered. (see swreg manpage).

You can also "push" with

hosta$ swinstall -s /location/of/software.depot @ hostb

However for this you need an additional software distributor license.

[Steven E. Protter]

Save your depot on an nfs export mount point on the server.

For example, lets call it /software

/software/xyz.depot

cd /software

swreg -l depot xyz.depot

Now you can swinstall according to the instructions in the prior two posts.

SEP

[Rick Garland]

Ignite doesn't do this type of install.
Can use swinstall to do remote installs of depots.

[Leif Halvarsson_2]

Hi,

Ignite is used for installing from scratch.
Swinstall is user for installing particular software.

Of course you can install particulare software form the depoth on the Ignite server but, in that case you should use the swinstall command (or swinstall GUI) not ignite.