Glossary

Ignite-UX

An HP-UX administration toolset that allows:

  • simultaneous installation of HP-UX on multiple clients
  • creation of custom installation configurations (golden images) for multiple installations on clients
  • creation of recovery media
  • recovery of HP-UX clients both locally and remotely

Ignite-UX server

A server from which Ignite-UX is used to install HP-UX on client systems.

Golden image

A combination of a golden archive and a configuration file describing a system's disk layout and file system. Used as a common configuration to install clients.

Ignite attributes

Custom attributes that allow provisioning of a server with new customized values that overwrite the standard attributes values defined in the golden image.

Network boot

A system boot of the HP-UX install kernel over a network connection from an Ignite-UX server.

Target or Target server

The HP Integrity server to be provisioned.

Custom configuration editor APX

The APX used to create and delete the custom configurations for HP-UX Provisioning.

HP-UX Provisioning APX

The APX used to start HP-UX Provisioning on target servers.

Sample configuration

The first configuration created for the new customer by the SA Administrator for HP-UX Provisioning. It is same as the custom configuration but is the first configuration for a new customer. It creates a subfolder with the customer name under the HP-UX Configs folder in the SA Client Library.