HP-UX System Administration

Course: HPADM1

Duration: 3 Days

Level: I

Course Summary

Attendees will gain a thorough knowledge of the HP/UX operating system and be able to support a multi-platform HP-UX installation. The course will cover the use of many of the advanced facilities for installing, configuring and maintaining the system. Having gained suitable, complementary experience they can progress to further specialised training to establish peak effectiveness.

This course is suitable for users of HP-UX 11i V1, V2 or V3, and covers both PA-RISC and Integrity Systems.

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Topics Covered In This Course

System Administration

The Superusers
Switching Users
System Administration Menu (SAM)
Adding Custom Commands to SAM
System Management Homepage (SMH)
Adding Custom Commands to SMH

User Management

Adding a User
Using SAM/SMH to Create a New User
The User Environment

Security

Why Security?
The HP-UX Advanced Security Sub-System
Trusted Computer Base (TCB)

Devices

Hardware Overview
Device Files

Filesystems

Standard Directory Layout
Filesystems
HFS Filesystems Structure
The Journalised Filesystem (VxFS)
The Veritas Filesystem (VxVM)
The HP-UX LVM
Using Logical Volumes to Hold Filesystems
Mounting Filesystems
Filesystems Mounted at Boot
Unmounting Filesystems
Listing Mounted Filesystems
Creating Filesystems Using sam/smh

File System Maintenance

Monitoring Disk Usage
Typical Areas that Need Monitoring
HP-UX Housekeeping Scripts
Maximum File Sizes
Expanding File Systems
SWAP
Fixing Broken Filesystems ? fsck

The Software Distributor

Creating a Distribution Depot
Installing Software
Examining a Directory Depot

Processes

Understanding the Process
Examining Processes
Killing Processes
Timing Commands

Timing and Scheduling

Scheduling One-off Jobs
Regular Job Scheduling
Setting up Schedules
Security Considerations

Backup and Restoring

Why Back Up?
The fbackup Command
The frecover Command
The cpio Command
Restoring Files
The tar uitlity
The dd Command
Ignite/UX

Printer Management

Printing
Printer Administration
Local, Remote and Network Printers
Printer Interface Scripts
Creating Print Queues
Print Queue Maintenance
HPDPS ? HP Distributed Print Systems

Booting and Shutting Down

HP-UX Start-up Sequence
The boot process
Starting an Integrity (IA64-based) system
Using the efi shell
Starting a PA-RISC system
Init States (Run Levels)
The /etc/inittab file
The sequencer directories
Inserting your own start-up scripts
Shutdown Commands
Boot Problems

Disaster Recovery & Boot failure

Boot Failures

Other

Installing HP-UX
The Kernel and kernel modifications

Who Should Take This Course

Those who need to expand their basic knowledge of HP-UX to enable them to successfully administer activities to be undertaken within the HP-UX environment.

Recommended Prerequisites

Delegates should have a basic understanding of UNIX or Linux and ideally some experience in the workplace. Attendance at our UNIX/Linux Essentials course is recommended. Knowledge of a standard UNIX editor (e.g. vi) is required

Training Style

This course is highly interactive with plenty of theory reinforced with extensive practical workshop sessions.

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