Igniting a box with OS, Oracle, Tuxedo, other COTS and walkaway

[Chris Knight_1]

Has anyone worked with igniting more than just the OS? We are trying this at the moment--just started. Any thoughts?

[Patrick Wallek]

As long as all of your applications are installed on your VG00 and you do a 'make_recovery -A' then everything should come up and work without a problem.

I have restored the OS via ignite when upgrading to a new boot disk, and had my backup software on VG00. All the indexes restored without a problem and it came up and worked like a charm.

So you should be OK with the above stipulation.

[Carlos Fernandez Riera]

You can change default instalation files to configure one ore more VG and filesystems, but it take you more work for you.

When there are other vg to configure i have used ignite to make box bootable and then wrtie some scripts and tape to finish instalation.

[Andrew Lartey]

I believe make_net_recovrey may help - you get to choose what VG's to include

or maybe make_sys_image ?

obviously assuming the hardware to be used is like for like.

[Cheryl Griffin]

Ignite is so more than make_recovery and make_net_recovery.

The task you describe here is creating a depot on your Ignite server which contains Core-OS and software packages to be pushed out to clients.

This involves creating those "packages" on the server using software_select statements, "sw_sel".

Once you have this setup, you can pick and choose for any client, what software to push where.

For a description of this process, check out the white paper /opt/ignite/share/doc/sysadm.txt.
There is a section for patches but the same principles apply to applications.
See sections "Adding an SD Bundle to the Archive Environment" and "Appendix B: Loading HP-UX Patches with Ignite-UX".

A note about applications... they need to be in SD-UX format, meaning they have to be bundled.

[Michael Roberts_3]

Ignite can install both the OS and applications in a single session. The OS/apps can come from an SD depot anywhere on the network that the client can access. Also the OS/apps can be in tar or cpio archives that are available via NFS/ftp/remsh.

On a system with Ignite installed look at /opt/ignite/data/examples directory and core11.cfg and noncore.cfg files in that directory. Also see /opt/ignite/share/doc/iuxguide.pdf .