Ignite-UX Administration Guide for HP-UX 11i (B3921-90079, October 2013)

export DISPLAY=system_name:0.0
If DISPLAY is not set on the server, the Ignite TUI will run.
• Software: Get Ignite-UX and any software depots you plan to distribute to clients from the
product media (CD or DVD). Ignite-UX can also be downloaded from the web; see “Getting
the Ignite-UX Software ” (page 12) for more information.
• Client access to server: There are multiple methods of having clients contact the Ignite server,
each suited to a different environment. See Chapter 2 (page 24) for more details.
Supported Peripherals
Disks and Other I/O
If a disk device is visible, it does not mean it is supported for installation. It is important to verify
that the disk is supported by the system, the host bus adaptor (HBA) Shell and is accessible from
the system console.
Computer system hardware documentation should be consulted for supported I/O configurations.
See the HP Support Center http://www.hp.com/go/hpsc for HP computer system hardware
documentation.
VxVM support is provided for a specific set of devices. The list of supported devices should be
consulted – see http://www.hp.com/go/hpux-LVM-VxVM-docs . Look for the section Support
Matrixes, and the document entitled Device Support Information for Veritas Products on HP-UX.
LVM supports all the devices HP-UX supports. See the HP-UX Supported Mass Storage Devices
Matrix for a table of I/O devices supported for each version of HP-UX.
Firmware
At times you might need new firmware to support a new device or HBA. Ensure that the client’s
firmware supports the devices and HBAs to be used for boot and root. For example, after the
HP9000 rp8400 system was first released, firmware changes enabled the system to boot from
disks connected to Ultra 160 HBAs. Check the Installation and Update Guide for your HP-UX
release, available at http://www.hp.com/go/hpux-core-docs, for instructions on finding firmware
information.
Additionally, firmware support for Fibre Channel, tape devices, and LAN cards might vary. In
some cases, devices are supported for data use, but device boot is not supported.
Disk Arrays
You can install disk arrays using HP-UX, but Ignite-UX does not directly support configuring an
array. The disk array must be configured first; see your array documentation for configuration
instructions. In some cases, system firmware may be used to set up disk arrays. The Ignite-UX install
environment contains tools that are also used to help configure disk arrays. To use these tools in
the install environment, you will need to use the expert recovery functionality to start an install
environment shell. It might also be necessary to load files that are not normally included in the
install environment by using the Ignite-UX loadfile command. When array configuration is
complete, it is necessary to reboot the system in order to use the newly configured disk LUNs during
install.
Client Terminals
The Ignite-UX client-side operating system installation tools support VT100 and Wyse 60 terminals,
compatible terminal emulators, and all HP terminals. Additional information regarding how to
navigate within the Ignite-UX GUI with the keyboard is found in Appendix F (page 245).
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