Ignite/UX
is Hewlett-Packard's state of the art integrated installation and
disaster recovery tool. Ignite offers an organization the ability
to provide disaster recovery for multiple scenarios. It is a full
featured imaging tool that can allow your organization to deploy server
images, patch sets and applications in the most flexible way. Ignite is
not currently offered for Linux.
Ignite offers the
following general features:
Bootable tape disaster recovery. A simple script
allows you to back up your system boot configuration while the system
is running. A bootable tape is created that can be used to restore your
system after a disaster or administrative mistake on similar hardware.
This type of backup known as make_tape_recovery can be used to change
system configuration and to clone configurations to similar hardware.
Golden Image system replication. Ignite/UX can allow
you to create a base system image which can be used to clone software
configuration across to other hp servers with different hardware
configurations. We have used Ignite golden images to replicate entire
oracle database application server configuraions to deploy similar
configurations on new hardware.
Network Recovery Image. Known in the trade as
make_net_recovery any HP-UX server to make an image of itself for
disaster recovery purposes. This image is specific to the server but
can enable you to bring a server up at an alternate location in a
couple of hours.
Patch distribution. Ignite/UX is extremely useful in
the distribution of patches to lare numbers of servers or workstations.
HP uses it extensively in its education centers to deploy various
configurations needed to provide various classes.
