Agile view concepts................................................................................................................

71

Practical considerations...........................................................................................................

73

System installation configuration...........................................................................................

73

Support for >2 TB boot disk................................................................................................

77

Identifying devices for other tasks.........................................................................................

78

Important characteristics of the agile view.............................................................................

78

Recovery and the agile view....................................................................................................

80

Legacy DSFs and device matching.......................................................................................

80

Persistent DSFs and device matching.....................................................................................

80

Controlling the I/O configuration process..................................................................................

81

Agile view questions and answers.............................................................................................

82

8 Security...................................................................................................

84

Ignite-UX server ports..............................................................................................................

84

Modifying a Bastille-hardened system to operate with Ignite-UX....................................................

89

Enabling Ignite-UX server requirements.................................................................................

90

Enabling Ignite-UX client requirements..................................................................................

91

Configuring Ignite to replace TFTP with NFS...............................................................................

92

Overview..........................................................................................................................

92

Procedure.........................................................................................................................

92

9 Booting and installing HP-UX from the server using the client console...............

95

Preparing the client for installation ...........................................................................................

95

Making boot decisions when using the client console..................................................................

96

Boot using the network.......................................................................................................

96

Boot using media...............................................................................................................

97

Using bootsys on the client console...........................................................................................

98

Booting PA-RISC clients from the console ...................................................................................

99

Booting Itanium-based clients using the network........................................................................

100

Direct boot profiles for Itanium-based systems...........................................................................

102

The dbprofile command....................................................................................................

103

The lanboot command......................................................................................................

104

Installing HP-UX from the client console....................................................................................

105

Managing speed and duplexing of LAN interfaces executing network boots.................................

108

Examples........................................................................................................................

108

10 Booting and installing HP-UX on clients using the server.............................

110

Methods of installing client systems.........................................................................................

110

Installation using bootsys.......................................................................................................

110

Installation using the Ignite-UX GUI.........................................................................................

112

Prepare the client for installation........................................................................................

112

Starting Ignite-UX.............................................................................................................

112

Adding clients.................................................................................................................

112

Booting a client...............................................................................................................

113

Configuring the installation....................................................................................................

116

New installation..............................................................................................................

116

Initializing the installation.............................................................................................

117

The client installation configuration interface...................................................................

117

Basic tab...............................................................................................................

118

Software tab .........................................................................................................

125

System tab ............................................................................................................

130

File System tab ......................................................................................................

137

Advanced tab........................................................................................................

144

Repeat an installation.......................................................................................................

145

Executing the installation.......................................................................................................

146

Viewing and printing a manifest ............................................................................................

149

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