HP How to Obtain Ignite-UX Software from the Recovery Commands Depot

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Obtaining Ignite-UX from the recovery commands depot

Getting Ignite-UX software from the recovery commands depot requires that you have already installed and set up an Ignite-UX server. To determine whether the recovery commands depot exists, type:

# swlist -l depot

Look for /var/opt/ignite/depots/recovery_cmds in the list of available depots. If the recovery commands depot is not present, you can create it by running the pkg_rec_depot (1m) command:

# /opt/ignite/lbin/pkg_rec_depot

If you install additional Ignite-UX components onto an Ignite-UX server, you can force the recovery commands depot to be recreated:

# /opt/ignite/lbin/pkg_rec_depot -f

Any time you install a new version of Ignite-UX, the recovery_cmds depot is updated automatically.

Use the swlist (1m) command to verify the content of the recovery commands depot. In the following example, the command is being run on a system named brwisd02:

# swlist -d -s /var/opt/ignite/depots/recovery_cmds

# Initializing...

 

 

# Contacting target "brwisd02"...

 

#

brwisd02:/var/opt/ignite/depots/recovery_cmds

# Target:

#

 

 

 

#

 

 

 

# Bundle(s):

 

 

#

 

 

 

IUX-Recovery

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Ignite-UX network recovery tool subset

Ignite-UX-11-11

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HP-UX Installation Utilities for

Installing

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Systems

HP-UX Installation Utilities for

Ignite-UX-11-23

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Installing

11.23

Systems

HP-UX Installation Utilities for

Ignite-UX-11-31

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Installing

11.31

Systems

 

The IUX-Recoverybundle is unique to the recovery commands depot and contains only the filesets required to run make_net_recovery on an Ignite-UX client. The bundle is small because it does not contain install kernels or install file systems. On clients that will run the make_net_recovery command, only the IUX-Recoverybundle needs to be installed.

The various Ignite-UX bundles contain the same software as the Ignite-UX bundles on OE media and the Web download versions of Ignite-UX. They contain the software needed to run the make_tape_recovery command (including OS-specific install kernels and install file systems) and consequently are much larger bundles.

If you add a system as a client of an Ignite-UX server and then run a make_net_recovery or make_tape_recovery command from the ignite (5) user interface, Ignite-UX will automatically install the correct software from the recovery commands depot. Ignite-UX only updates the software on the client when make_net_recovery (1M) or make_tape_recovery (1M) are invoked via the ignite

(5)command on the Ignite-UX server. If either of these commands is invoked from the client, Ignite- UX compares the client version to the server version and will generate one of the following error messages if they are different.

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Contents Installing and Updating Ignite-UX Table of ContentsGetting the software AbstractDownloading Ignite-UX from the Web Obtaining Ignite-UX from OE and Application media Obtaining Ignite-UX from the recovery commands depot # swlist -l depot# /opt/ignite/lbin/pkgrecdepot # /opt/ignite/lbin/pkgrecdepot -f2.94 HP-UX Installation Utilities Ignite-UX # swlist -l bundle grep IgniteCleaning up after an update if needed Problems related to installing and updating Ignite-UXDealing with obsolete HP-UX releases Moving to an earlier version of Ignite-UX # swlist -a installsource -l bundle B5725AAIdentifying the source depot for Ignite-UX software Installation Utilities for Installing Systems Ignite-UX 1.44System Installation Services # swlist Grep Ignite Ignite-UX-11-23 0.106
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Ignite-UX specifications

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