Ignite-UX

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

Install HP-UX 11.0, 11i v1 (B.11.11), v2 (B.11.23), and v3 (B.11.31) on multiple PA-RISC and/or Itanium-based clients on your network.
Create custom installation configurations, or golden images, for use in multiple installations on clients.
Recover HP-UX clients remotely.
Create custom recovery media including tape, CD, and DVD.
Manage and monitor multiple client installation sessions.

Summary of Change

What’s New for Customers Migrating from HP-UX 11i v1 September 2005?

Ignite-UX version C.7.0.x includes the following changes:

Multipath-Aware Ignite
- HP-UX 11i v3 uses a new approach for addressing I/O. This means that Ignite-UX displays lunpath hardware paths for HP-UX 11i v3 installations. For 11i v2 and prior versions of HP-UX, Ignite-UX displays legacy hardware paths. For more information on the new device addressing, see the white paper “The Next Generation Mass Storage Stack” available at http://docs.hp.com/en/netsys.html#Storage%20Area%20Management.
- To help with the transition from legacy hardware paths to lunpath hardware paths, and assist with identifying devices in larger multiple path configurations, Ignite-UX now has a “More Info” screen that shows all paths to devices, as well as device world-wide identifiers (WWIDs).
- HP-UX 11i v3 Persistent DSFs of system devices will persist through system reboot and will normally persist through an Ignite-UX recovery, but will not typically persist from installation to installation.
- Legacy DSFs are handled in HP-UX 11i v3 as in prior versions of Ignite-UX.
Operating Environments are restructured in HP-UX 11i v3. Software products listed on the Software tab of the client installation configuration interface are now grouped as “Required,” “Recommended,” and “Optional,” and these groupings appear as selectable categories.
Ignite-UX integrates with SWManager rather than SD-UX for software installation tasks on HP-UX 11i v3.
HP-UX 11i v3 systems that support hyperthreading will have it enabled by default. The hyperthread state is preserved with recovery.
The system boot path is automatically managed in HP-UX 11i v3 for multiple path configurations as paths change. The I/O subsystem will choose the best boot path and change boot paths as needed. See the white paper “The Next Generation Mass Storage Stack” available at http://docs.hp.com/en/netsys.html#Storage%20Area%20Management.
I/O inventory information collection for installation and recovery is more complex, but more efficient. You may or may not see performance improvements.
The details of how Ignite-UX interacts with the kernel have changed, resulting in new and changed messages being displayed and logged.
Archive format for recovery archives and golden archives is now user selectable, and pax has been added as a format choice. There is one known issue with the pax format when the Ignite-UX server is not running HP-UX 11i v3. Check the Ignite-UX release notes for more information.
Ignite-UX will check minimum memory requirements and will not permit installation or recovery to proceed if the system is below the memory limit. Warning messages may also be issued for minimum or near minimum memory size.
The Ignite-UX bundle structure has been changed. The principle bundle tag of Ignite-UX is now IGNITE instead of the previous B5725AA bundle tag. The OS-specific bundle tags like Ignite-UX-11-23 remain as is, and there is a new tag for Ignite-UX-11-31.

What’s New for Customers Migrating from HP-UX 11i v2 June 2006?

See “What’s New for Customers Migrating from HP-UX 11i v1 September 2005?”

Impact

There are no impacts other than those previously described.

Compatibility

Ignite-UX does not support configurations that include more than one version of VxVM in the same image. Please make sure that your installation and recovery images contain only one version of the VxVM product.

Performance

There are no known performance issues.

Documentation

The Ignite-UX product Web site containing information and documentation has been updated for this release. It can be found at

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

The following documents have been updated to reflect all changes to the product for this release. They can be found at

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

Ignite-UX Administration Guide
Ignite-UX Custom Configuration Files
Ignite-UX Reference
Ignite-UX Release Notes

Obsolescence

Not applicable.