parstatus

[Wilfred Chau_1]

We have a rp8400, ignited with an N image. After it was ignited, parstatus -C said "Unsupported Platform". Any idea?

[Tom Geudens]

Hi,
I'm not familiar with the parstatus command (since I don't have a rp8400 or a V-class) ... but could the problem not simply be that the "image" you restored onto the system does not support partitions ? I believe there's a modelstring in the Ignite backup. It could be that (at least for the parstatus-utility) you "downgraded" your server.

Extract from the control_cfg :
RECOVERY_MODE=TRUE
enum _HP_CLONING
_HP_CLONING help_text "Cloning to different HW?"
_HP_CLONING = { "TRUE", "FALSE" }
(MODEL == "9000/800/N4000-36")
{ init _HP_CLONING = "FALSE" }
else
{ init _HP_CLONING = "TRUE" }

Hope this helps,
Tom Geudens

[Michael Tully]

Hi,

Igniting from different hardware platforms is
asking for trouble. I have 2 of these rp8400
systems and they should initially be built
from the CD's as a Cold install. You can create
an image from one rp8400 and build it onto
another. You will find that because of the
different hardware that it will not work.
An ignite image may work from an rp7410 (the
new N class) but I wouldn't guarantee it.

-Michael

[Clemens van Everdingen]

Hi,

Checked a little bit around and found some information.
First of all you have to use the latest ignite version available:

Download from here:
http://www.software.hp.com/products/IUX/

Furthermore the problem has to do with VPars.
You have to make ignite Vpars aware.
In the following document there is information about this.

http://docs.hp.com/hpux/pdf/T1335-90001.pdf

Hope this helps you in the right direction.

C.

[Wilfred Chau_1]

I spoke with an HP engineer and she told me ignite is hardware independent as long as I have the lasted the greatest igniteux installed. Sound like it is not true.

[Clemens van Everdingen]

Hi,

Ignite is hardware independent, except once you have a recovery tape. At that moment the best thing is to use it for recovery.

As Michael already stated, you are looking for trouble if you try to use it on completely different hardware.

There is a way in the middle: If systems are almost the same configuration wise, there will be no or less trouble cloning one system to the other.

But totally different will be difficult.

C.