The unique customizations appear in the directory dedicated to the client by MAC address, which is linked to a directory containing the client name:

/var/opt/ignite/clients/client/config

This file is created when you use the Ignite-UX GUI to specify the client configuration.

7.Creating and saving custom configuration choices - You can create your own custom configurations using the Ignite-UX GUI, save them for repeated use, and easily select them when installing clients. For example, you might have a large number of users with similar systems who all run Computer Aided Design (CAD) tools. You can build a configuration that defines all necessary parameters and save it in a configuration called CAD System. When you want to install a new system for a CAD user, you can select CAD System from the GUI and you are done (or you customize it further using CAD System as the template). Saved configurations are located in: /var/opt/ignite/saved_cfgs/

NOTE: Configuration files are often referred to as config files because the word configuration is shortened to create file and directory names. For example, a client’s local configuration file is config.local.

You can build your own configuration files that specify the various installation parameters you are interested in, and then combine them in arbitrary ways into any number of different custom configurations using the /var/opt/ignite/data/INDEX file. Place these custom configuration files in one of the HP-UX release-specific operating system directories:

/var/opt/ignite/data/Rel_release/*

The next section describes how to combine multiple configuration files (default or customized) to define a single configuration.

Combining configuration files using INDEX entries

Grouping configuration files into useful configurations is accomplished in /var/opt/ignite/ data/INDEX. This file contains a list of configurations in separate clauses; each comprising one or more configuration files that define an installation. Each configuration clause begins with cfg and a name by which the configuration is known.

You can view these configuration names using the instl_adm command. When installing a new client from the Ignite-UX GUI, you can view these configurations by clicking the button adjacent to Configurations... on the Basic tab by as shown in Figure 95.

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