5.8 Preparing a Staging Area for Remote Distribution

NOTE: You can only use the EXPORT and IMPORT commands of Stage/iX for applying patches to systems that are on the identical base. Stage/iX will not verify whether or not your machines are on the same base release.

1. Log on from the console (if you are not already logged on), start the spooler, and streams device.

     :HELLO MANAGER.SYS,INSTALL;HIPRI
     :LIMIT 1,1
     :SPOOLER print_device;START
     :STREAMS streams_device
   

   Common print_device values are LP or 6. A common streams_device value is 10.

   Ignore the GROUP OUT OF CONNECT TIME warning, if it displays.

2. Start HP Stage/iX.

     :STAGEMAN

3. Remove any old staging areas. Use UNINSTALL in stageman to accomplish this in the best way.

4. Prepare the staging area, execute the EXPORT command.

     STAGEMAN>EXPORT sa_name;option

   where sa_name is the name of the staging area to be distributed. Record your sa_name on your checklist.

   option specifies the export file mode. The default is NOPACK. The EXPORT options are:

   TAPE

   creates a regular STORE tape, which can be imported on the remote machine with the ;TAPE option. For the tape option, reply to the tape request.

   PACK

   creates a single packaged file in the directory /SYS/hpstage/export with the staging area name as the filename.

   NOPACK

   places all files related to the staging area in the /SYS/hpstage/export directory.

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