Ignite-UX Administration Guide for HP-UX 11i (B3921-90080, November 2013)

System Recovery
Ignite-UX provides consistent, reliable recovery in the event of catastrophic hardware or software
failure by creating recovery images on tape (with client access to a tape drive) or on any Ignite-UX
server in your environment (with client access to the network).
Support for Multiple Architectures
Ignite-UX supports both the Precision Architecture Reduced Instruction Set Computing (PA-RISC)
and the Intel®Itanium® (Itanium®-based) hardware architectures.
Support for HP Servicecontrol Manager
Ignite-UX supports installing HP-UX clients in the HP Servicecontrol Manager environment. For
details, see the HP Servicecontrol Manager 3.0 User's Guide.
Support for New Hardware
Each new release of the Ignite-UX product supports the new hardware included in the corresponding
release of HP-UX.
Getting the Ignite-UX Software
Ignite-UX is available in standard SD (Software Distributor) depot format from OE and AR media,
and from the HP Software Depot Website.
Any Ignite-UX bundle is safe to install at any time. None of the filesets in Ignite-UX bundles will
cause a reboot to occur.
• OE and AR Media
Ignite-UX released on OE or AR media can only be installed on a server running the HP-UX
version supported by the OE or AR media.
This Ignite-UX is the complete product. (The Ignite complete product is capable of installing
and recovering all supported versions of HP-UX.)
If you require a version of Ignite-UX that can be installed onto any supported version of HP-UX,
read the next section about downloading Ignite-UX from the HP Software Depot Website.
• HP Software Depot Website
Follow this link for Ignite-UX on HP Software Depot: http://www.hp.com/go/
ignite-ux-download
The Ignite-UX depots available at Software Depot contain the latest Ignite-UX version and can
be installed on servers running any supported version of HP-UX.
• Support for Installation and Recovery of all Supported HP-UX Operating System Versions
Each Ignite-UX bundle contains the Ignite-UX tools, plus the data files required to install and
recover the particular HP-UX operating systems indicated by the bundle name.
See the figure below for a list of available bundles and the HP-UX versions the bundles can
install and recover.
12 Ignite-UX Overview