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Ignite-UX

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Efficiently manage HP-UX image creation, installation, and recovery with the power of Ignite-UX

How it works

The Ignite-UX tool offers the following features and benefits:

• Manage multiple simultaneous installations using multiple releases of HP-UX.
• Use Software Distributor depots.
• Install from a golden image.
• Create a system ready to go with kernel parameters, user-supplied scripts, and networking information.
• Apply a configuration to multiple targets.
• Get a report of hardware, disk usage, kernel modifications, and software installed.
• Create customised, bootable installation media.
• Create bootable backups to either network or media for consistent, reliable recovery.

Warning: Possible data loss during large data recovery on tapes using Ignite-UX versions C.7.11.439 and C.7.11.444 on HP Integrity systems
A potential data loss problem has been discovered in Ignite-UX versions C.7.11.439 and C.7.11.444 affecting the creation of recovery tapes on HP Integrity systems running HP-UX 11i v2 or 11i v3. When writing an archive to tape, if the end of the tape is encountered, a new tape will not be prompted for and any subsequent data will be discarded without any notification to the user. This may lead to creation of an incomplete and unusable recovery tape.

Note: Following usage scenarios are still valid and are a non-issue:

• If the complete data can be written to fit into a single tape, the recovery tape will work fine and the data restored will be completely valid.
• Recovery tapes created on HP9000 (PA-RISC) systems are NOT affected by this issue. This issue is specific to HP Integrity systems only.
• This issue does not affect network recovery archives created for either architecture.

Steps to determine if the data archived fits into a single tape:

To determine if a tape created by Ignite-UX versions C.7.11.439 or C.7.11.444 on an HP Integrity system is not valid, run the following commands:

# mt -f /dev/rmt/#mn rew
# mt -f /dev/rmt/#mn fsf 22
# pax -v -f /dev/rmt/#m

where # must be replaced by the number associated with the device that the tape has been loaded into. If the archive listing by pax completes without prompting for a new tape, the recovery tape has been created successfully. If you are prompted for a second tape, the recovery tape is not valid and should not be relied upon for recovery.

Workaround and compatibility considerations:

To help you mitigate the impact of this issue, HP has made available the web release of Ignite-UX version C.7.12.519.

If you have systems that require two or more tapes to create a recovery archive, you must remove Ignite-UX versions C.7.11.439 or C.7.11.444 from those systems and install C.7.12.519 or later versions.

If you continue to use Ignite-UX versions C.7.11.439 or C.7.11.444 you must verify any recovery tape created using the above instructions.

This issue has been fixed in the version of Ignite-UX that has been released in the version C.7.13.240 and later.

At a glance

• HP-UX 11i versions: HP-UX 11i v1 (B.11.11), HP-UX 11i v2 (B.11.23), HP-UX 11i v3 (B.11.31)
• Hardware: HP Integrity server blades, HP Integrity systems, PA-RISC systems