HP Ignite-UX Quick Start Guide

Ignite-UX Quick Start Guide

Create an Ignite-UX Server and Cold-Install Clients

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About This Document.........................................................................................................5

Intended Audience.................................................................................................................................5

Typographic Conventions......................................................................................................................5

Related Information................................................................................................................................5

Related Documents...........................................................................................................................5

Publishing History..................................................................................................................................6

HP Encourages Your Comments............................................................................................................6

1 Setting up an Ignite-UX Server......................................................................................7

Make Sure Your System Meets Ignite-UX Server Requirements............................................................7

Install the Ignite-UX Software and the HP-UX OE Depot on the Server...............................................9

Create the HP-UX OE Configuration Information on the Ignite-UX Server........................................12

Configure the System as an Ignite-UX Server......................................................................................14

2 Cold-installing a Client Across the Network.............................................................15

Add a Network Entry for the Client to the IP Address File on the Server...........................................15

Boot the Client System from the Ignite-UX Server...............................................................................18

Install HP-UX from the Server Using the Client Console.....................................................................25

Glossary............................................................................................................................33

Table of Contents 3

About This Document

This document describes the most common procedure for setting up an Ignite-UX server, adding a client to the Ignite-UX server, and cold-installing HP-UX on that client.

Glossary terms are italicized when used for the first time in this manual.

Intended Audience

This document is intended for system and network administrators with minimal experience installing, configuring, and managing HP-UX. Administrators are expected to have knowledge of operating system concepts, but not in-depth knowledge of HP-UX or Ignite-UX. It is helpful to have knowledge of Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) networking concepts and network configuration.

Typographic Conventions

This document uses the following typographical conventions:

audit(5) A manpage. The manpage name is audit, and it is located in Section 5.

Command

Computer output

Key The name of a keyboard key. Return and Enter both refer to the same

Term An important word or phrase defined in the glossary.

User input

Variable

CAUTION A caution calls attention to important information that if not understood

A number sign represents the superuser prompt.

A command name or qualified command phrase.

Text displayed by the computer.

key.

Commands and other text that you type.

The name of a placeholder in a command, function, or other syntax display that you replace with an actual value.

or followed will result in data loss, data corruption, or damage to hardware or software.

Related Information

The most current edition of this and the following documents are found at the HP Technical Documentation website at:

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

Publishing History

The document printing date and part number indicate the document’s current edition. The printing date will change when a new edition is printed. Minor changes might be made at reprint without changing the printing date. The document part number will change when extensive changes are made. Document updates might be issued between editions to correct errors or document product changes. To ensure you receive the updated or new editions, you should subscribe to the appropriate product support service. See your HP sales representative for details. You can find the latest version of this document on line at

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Manufacturing Part Number

Systems

HP Encourages Your Comments

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Include the document title, manufacturing part number, and any comment, error found, or suggestion for improvement you have concerning this document.

Publication DateEdition NumberSupported Operating

September, 20084HP-UX 11i v1, v2, and v35992–5230

June, 20083HP-UX 11i v1, v2, and v35992–4815

March, 20082HP-UX 11i v1, v2, and v35992–3879

September, 20071HP-UX 11i v1, v2, and v35992-0678

1 Setting up an Ignite-UX Server

This chapter describes setting up an Ignite-UX server to cold install HP-UX 11i v1, v2, and v3 on

clients over the network. You must have superuser privileges to set up an Ignite-UX server. You

can stop anywhere in this procedure and resume where you left off at a later time.

This document assumes the network boot clients are on the same subnet as the Ignite-UX server. This document also assumes the network DHCP and DNS servers are already set up. These network services are vital to Ignite-UX server operation. If the Ignite-UX server is intended to support these network functions on an isolated subnet, the user should consult documentation that indicates how to set them up. Network services should be set up before the Ignite-UX server is set up. See http://www.docs.hp.com for networking documentation.

Make Sure Your System Meets Ignite-UX Server Requirements

1. Make sure the version of HP-UX running on the Ignite-UX server system matches the HP-UX

version on the operating environment (OE) DVD set you are getting the Ignite-UX software from. Use the uname -r command to query the HP-UX revision on the server system. The uname command will report the release identifier, which can be mapped to the HP-UX release as follows: B.11.31 is HP-UX 11i v3, B.11.23 is 11i v2, and B.11.11 is 11i v1.

Procedure

# uname -r B.11.23

Common Errors

sh: typo: not found.

Diagnosis: Mistyped “uname”

Correction: Retype command.

uname: illegal option – R

usage: uname [-amnrsvil] [-S nodename]

Diagnosis: Used a capital R instead of a lowercase r.

Correction: Reissue the uname command with a lowercase r.

Explore

See uname(1) by issuing the command

# man uname

If you require a version of Ignite-UX that can be installed onto any supported version of HP-UX, please read the section about downloading Ignite-UX from the HP Software Depot website in the Ignite-UX Administration Guide, available at http://www.docs.hp.com/en/IUX/infolib.html.

2. Use the bdf command to make sure you have at least 2 GB of free disk space available in /opt to support installation of all three HP-UX releases.

Procedure

# bdf /opt

Common Errors

Make Sure Your System Meets Ignite-UX Server Requirements 7

Detection: The number of kbytes free on /opt is less than 2000000.

Diagnosis: Not enough space.

Correction: Extend the size of the logical volume with the lvextend command, and then extend the size of the

file system within the logical volume with the extendfs command. Detailed instructions for this procedure

are found in the HP-UX administration guides listed below, depending on your version of HP-UX.

For HP-UX 11i v3, see the HP-UX System Administrator's Guide (volume 3): Logical Volume Management. Within this guide, look for the chapter on administering LVM, and then the section on extending a file system.

For HP-UX 11i v2 and earlier versions, see Managing Systems and Workgroups. Within this guide, look for the chapter on managing disks and files, and then the section on extending the size of a file system within a logical volume.

Both administration guides are available at http://www.docs.hp.com.

Explore

See bdf(1M) by issuing the command

# man bdf

See lvextend(1M).

See extendfs(1M).

See fsadm(1M)

3. Use the bdf command to make sure you have enough disk space in /var to hold the OE

depots. You will need roughly 4.5 GB per DVD in the OE set.

Procedure

# bdf /var

Common Errors

Detection: The number of kbytes free on /var is less than 9 GB for a two-DVD OE set.

Diagnosis: Not enough space.

Correction: Extend the size of the logical volume with the lvextend command, and then the size of the file

system within the logical volume with the extendfs command. Detailed instructions for this procedure are found in the HP-UX administration guides listed below, depending on your version of HP-UX.

Both administration guides are available at http://www.docs.hp.com

Explore

Consider making room in /var/opt/ignite for recovery archives, golden images, and software depots. Estimate approximately 4 GB per recovery and golden image archive. See the section on Ignite-UX server requirements in the Ignite-UX Administration Guide at http://docs.hp.com/en/IUX/infolib.html. For information on how to do this, see the HP-UX administration guides listed below, depending on your version of HP-UX.

Both administration guides are available at http://www.docs.hp.com

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Consider creating a new file system for /var/opt/ignite. This could keep Ignite-UX from impacting other applications using /var if it fills /var/opt/ignite with depots and archives. Detailed instructions for this procedure are found in the HP-UX administration guides listed below, depending on your version of HP-UX. If you do create a file system for /var/opt/ignite, then you will see it in the bdf listing and will be able to manage your disk space to a greater level of detail.

For HP-UX 11i v2 and earlier versions, see Managing Systems and Workgroups. Within this guide, look for the chapter on managing disks and files, and then the section on creating a file system.

Both administration guides are available at http://www.docs.hp.com

See newfs(1M).

See lvcreate(1M).

Install the Ignite-UX Software and the HP-UX OE Depot on the Server

1. Gain access to the DVD drive on your system. This document assumes the DVD-ROM device is called /dev/dsk/c1t2d0 – substitute your actual device name throughout this document.

Procedure

a. Use the ioscan command to get the DVD-ROM device name, for example: /dev/dsk/c1t2d0. You are

looking for DVD in the Description column of the ioscan output.

# ioscan -fnkC disk | more

b. Create the device directory:

# mkdir /dvdrom

c. Put the OE DVD in the drive and mount it onto the new directory as a file system. Note that you must

unmount the DVD-ROM with the # umount /dvdrom command before you can extract it from the drive.

# mount /dev/dsk/c1t2d0 /dvdrom

Common Errors

/dev/rdsk/cntndn is an invalid operand

Diagnosis: The /dev/rdsk device file was used instead of the /dev/dsk device file.

Correction: Reissue the mount command with the /dev/dsk device file.

/dev/dsk/cntndn: unrecognized file system

Diagnosis: The device file name was mistyped.

Correction: Check that the device file was entered correctly.

/dev/dsk/cntndn: I/O error

Diagnosis: The DVD isn't in the drive.

Correction: Insert the OE DVD into the drive.

mount: /dev/dsk/cntndn was either ignored or not found in /etc/fstab

Diagnosis:The mount directory, /dvdrom, was omitted from the mount command.

Correction: Reissue the mount command with the mount directory.

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The ioscan command lists no devices.

Diagnosis: If the system is running HP-UX 11i v3, the system might have legacy mode disabled. To find out,

issue the following command.

# insf -Lv

Correction: If legacy mode is disabled, issue the following command to get the DVD-ROM device name (add an “N” to the ioscan command options). Do not enable legacy mode without talking to the system administrator responsible for the Ignite-UX server.

# ioscan -fNnkC disk | more

Explore

You can navigate the output of the more command, including the ioscan -C disk -f -n -k | more command above, with the following shortcuts:

• space – Scroll down one page of the listing.

• j – Scroll down one line of the listing.

• k – Scroll up one line of the listing.

• q – Quit.

See ioscan(1M).

See mkdir(1).

See mount(2).

See mount(1M) by issuing the command

# man 1M mount

2. Make sure you are installing a later version of Ignite-UX on the system.

Procedure

a. Get the version of Ignite-UX currently installed on the server, if it is already installed:

# swlist Ignite-UX

b. Get the version of Ignite-UX from the OE DVD:

# swlist -s /dvdrom | grep Ignite-UX

Common Errors

ERROR: Software “Ignite-UX” was not found on host “system_name:/”.

Diagnosis: Depending on the command you issued, Ignite-UX is not currently installed on the server or it's

not on the DVD currently in the drive.

Correction: If Ignite-UX is not installed on the server, continue to the next step. If Ignite-UX is not on the DVD, replace the DVD with another in the media set. Remember to unmount the current DVD in order to extract it from the drive.

ERROR: The expected depot or root does not exist at “/dvdrom”.

ERROR: There is currently no depot software on host “hostname” at location “/dvdrom”. Make sure that an absolute pathname is specified for location (beginning with “/”).

Diagnosis: The DVD is no longer mounted at /dvdrom or you have typed the wrong directory name.

Correction: Check for typos. You can use bdf to check the name of the DVD mount point. If the DVD is not

mounted, mount it as described in the previous step.

Explore

For an overview on getting and installing Ignite-UX, see the Ignite-UX Administration Guide available at http://

www.docs.hp.com/en/IUX/infolib.html. For detailed information, see the white paper Installing and Updating

Ignite-UX, available at http://www.docs.hp.com/en/IUX/infolib.html.

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3. Install the Ignite-UX software using swinstall if the Ignite-UX version on the DVD is later than any currently installed version of Ignite-UX and the HP-UX version on the OE media matches the HP-UX version on the Ignite-UX server.

Procedure

# swinstall -s /dvdrom Ignite-UX

Common Errors

ERROR: Could not apply the software selection “Ignite-UX”; it is not available from depot or root “server_name:/dvdrom”.

Diagnosis: The DVD in the drive does not have Ignite-UX on it.

Correction: Unmount the DVD drive with this command:

# umount /dvdrom

Put in another OE DVD and mount it as in step 1c. Then use the swinstall command again.

ERROR: “server_name:/” 19 filesets have a version with a higher revision number already installed.

Diagnosis: A higher version of Ignite-UX is already installed on the server system.

Correction: Proceed to the next step.

Explore

You can list all the software bundles on the DVD with

# swlist -s /dvdrom

4. Unmount the DVD so you can extract it from the drive.

Procedure

# umount /dvdrom

Common Errors

# unmount /dvdrom: cannot unmount /dvdrom : Device busy

Diagnosis: A process is still using files on the DVD, or a process has its current working directory on the DVD.

Correction: a. Run the fuser command to see what processes are using the DVD.

# fuser /dvdrom /dvdrom: 8553c

b. To find out what commands are using the DVD device, run the following command for each process id

(numbers only, in this case 8553) shown by the fuser command.

# ps -e | grep -e 8553

root 8553 8552 1 Jul 10 pts/tb 0:00 -sh root 11087 8553 0 14:34:07 pts/tb 0:00 grep -e 8553

In this case, the shell attempting to run unmount had /dvdrom as its current working directory, and changing to another directory would allow the DVD to be unmounted.

5. Create the HP-UX OE depot, named core_media, by running make_depots on each of the HP-UX OE DVDs. In this example we are using HP-UX 11i v2, but this process can easily be customized for any HP-UX release by substituting your release information for the HP-UX 11i v2 information. The make_depots command takes a long time to complete. When make_depots completes without errors, no messages are printed to the screen – all messages are printed to the /var/opt/ignite/depots/Rel_B.11.23/swagent.log file

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(substitute your release directory if it's different from 11.23). If the make_depots command returns quickly with no errors, the depot already exists on the system.

Procedure

Run the make_depots command below for all DVDs in the OE set. Remember to substitute your device file name and the appropriate release directory (Rel_B.11.xx) for your version of HP-UX.

# /opt/ignite/bin/make_depots -s /dev/dsk/c1t2d0 \

-d /var/opt/ignite/depots/Rel_B.11.23/core_media

Common Errors

ERROR: swcopy command failed

Diagnosis: Read the file /var/opt/ignite/depots/Rel_B.11.23/core_media/swagent.log to get

a full report of what went wrong.

make_depots: error — cannot stat source depot /dev/dsk/cntndn

make_depots: notice — Ending make_depots due to fatal error

Diagnosis: The wrong device file was used.

Correction: Reissue the make_depots command with the correct device file.

Explore

You can watch the depot creation process by listing the file /var/opt/ignite/depots/Rel_B.11.23/ core_media/swagent.log with the following command.

# tail -f /var/opt/ignite/depots/Rel_B.11.23/core_media/swagent.log

The depot will be put in the /var/opt/ignite/depots/Rel_B.11.23 directory and will be named core_media.

This process is described fully in the section on installation configurations using Software Distributor (SD-UX) depots in the Ignite-UX Custom Configuration Files web-only document, available at http://docs.hp.com/en/IUX/

infolib.html.

The depot we're creating is called core_media in order to distinguish it from other depots of the same HP-UX version. (All depots of the same version are kept in the appropriate Rel_B.xx.xx directory.) Consider naming depots with names that indicate what release of HP-UX the depot contains. This will make the depots easier to identify. For instance, if you are creating a depot for the December 2007 HP-UX 11i v2 Mission Critical OE release, you could name the depot core_0712_mc.

Create the HP-UX OE Configuration Information on the Ignite-UX Server

1. Create the configuration file, named core_media_cfg, to describe this HP-UX OE depot, named core_media. In this example we are using HP-UX 11i v2, but this process can easily be customized for any HP-UX release by substituting your release information for the HP-UX 11i v2 information.

If you want more than one configuration available for a version of HP-UX, such as 11i v2 June, 2008 and 11i v2 December, 2007, then each configuration must have a unique name for the configuration file created with make_config in this step and the configuration clause created and modified by manage_index in Step 2.

If you wish, you may safely complete the section “Configure the System as an Ignite-UX

Server” (page 14) before this one.

Procedure

# /opt/ignite/bin/make_config -s /var/opt/ignite/depots/Rel_B.11.23/core_media \

-c /var/opt/ignite/data/Rel_B.11.23/core_media_cfg

Common Errors

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ERROR: Depot depot_name does not exist.

Diagnosis: The depot name was mistyped.

Correction: Check the make_config command line for typos.

Explore

List the /var/opt/ignite/data/Rel_B.11.23 directory to see the core_media_cfg file just created with the make_config command.

Configuration files are typically named after the depot, with a _cfg appended.

This process is described fully in the section on creating the configuration file to describe the depot in the Ignite-UX Custom Configuration Files web-only document, available at http://docs.hp.com/en/IUX/infolib.html.

2. Add the configuration information to the Ignite-UX /var/opt/ignite/INDEX file. First,

the default B.11.23 configuration clause is copied to a new clause called “B.11.23 From OE Media”, and then the core_media_cfg file we created in step 1 is added to the “B.11.23 From OE Media” clause.

If you want more than one configuration available for a version of HP-UX, such as 11i v2 June, 2008 and 11i v2 December, 2007, then each configuration must have a unique name for the configuration file created with make_config in Step 1 and the configuration clause created and modified by manage_index in this step.

Procedure

# /opt/ignite/bin/manage_index -n "HP-UX B.11.23 Default" \

-c "B.11.23 From OE Media" # /opt/ignite/bin/manage_index -a \

-f /var/opt/ignite/data/Rel_B.11.23/core_media_cfg \

-c "B.11.23 From OE Media"

Common Errors

NOTE: Cannot access index file /var/opt/ignite/INDEX: No such file or directory.

ERROR: Couldn't accomplish the requested operation.

Diagnosis: The /var/opt/ignite/INDEX file is missing or mistyped.

Correction: Check for typos. Otherwise, list the /var/opt/ignite directory to see if the INDEX file is there

under another name. Check with a systems administrator responsible for the Ignite-UX server to find the correct INDEX file.

Explore

This process is described fully in the section on creating a minimalist cfg clause for installation in the Ignite-UX Custom Configuration Files web-only document, available at http://docs.hp.com/en/IUX/infolib.html.

View the description of the “B.11.23 From OE Media” configuration clause to see that it is the same as the default clause we copied, “HP-UX B.11.23 Default”. Note that when no INDEX file is specified, the manage_index command defaults to /var/opt/ignite/INDEX.

# manage_index -x -c "B.11.23 From OE Media"

Change the description to something that makes sense to you.

# manage_index -c "B.11.23 From OE Media" -y "B.11.23 0712 OE"

See manage_index(1M).

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