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Your complete single source for HP-UX system administration!
Now, there's a single source for all the information HP-UX administrators need to succeed. Marty Poniatowski has updated the world's #1 HP-UX system administration guide to cover all the latest HP-UX 11i enhancements, all the UNIX commands HP-UX sysadmins need to know, plus every key option for UNIX/Windows interoperability!
HP-UX in depth...
UNIX commands and shells...
UNIX/Windows interoperability...
Includes trial versions of Hewlett-Packard's suite of VantagePoint performance tools for HP-UX, plus information on HP Virtual Partitions and "Cheat Sheets" for key sysadmin tasks.
Click here for a sample chapter for this book: 0130600814.pdf
Preface.
HP-UX SECTION.
1. Booting (PDC, ISL, hpux), Secure Web Console, GSP Config.Background. Boot Process Overview. Boot Console Handler (BCH) & Processor Dependent Code (PDC). Initial System Load. HPUX Secondary System Loader (hpux). Secure Web Console. Configuring the Guardian Service Processor (GSP). Manual Pages for Commands Used in Chapter 1.
2. Installing HP-UX.Topics Covered in this Chapter. Install the HP-UX 11i Operating Environment. Boot System and “Advanced Installation.” Set System Parameters after Boot. Software Distributor Example. Loading Patches. Software Distributor Background. Manual Pages for Commands Used in Chapter 2.
3. Building an HP-UX Kernel.Modify and Build an HP-UX Kernel. Dynamically Loadable Kernel Modules. Building a Kernel. Description of Kernel Parameters. Manual Pages for Commands Used in Chapter 3.
4. Device Files and Adding Peripherals.Introduction. Device Files in HP-UX 11i. An Example of Adding a Peripheral. Memory Management - Kind of Related to Device Files. Manual Pages for Commands Used in Chapter 4.
5. Users and Groups.Set Up Users and Groups. Assigning Users to Groups. NIS for Managing Users. Manual Pages for Some Commands Used in Chapter 5.
6. Backup.Built-In Backup Programs. tar. cpio. fbackup and frecover. dd. Dump and Restore. Manual Pages for Commands Used in Chapter 6.
7. System Startup and Shutdown Scripts.Introduction. System Startup and Shutdown Scripts. Manual Pages for Commands Used in Chapter 7.
8. Logical Volume Manager and Veritas Volume Manager.Introduction. Veritas Volume Manager. Logical Volume Manager Background. Adding Disks. Commonly Used LVM Procedures. Reconfiguring Some Disks - An Example of Using Some Logical. HP VERITAS Volume Manager. Some Additional File System-Related Commands. Manual Pages for Commands Used in Chapter 8.
9. Ignite-UX.Ignite-UX Overview. Set up Server with Depots and Install Clients. System Recovery with Ignite-UX. Manual Pages for Commands Used in Chapter 9.
10. System Administration Manager (SAM) and ServiceControl.Manager.SAM Overview. Running and Using SAM as Superuser. Author's Disclaimer - SAM is a Moving Target. Running Restricted SAM Builder. Initially Setting User Privileges. Accounts for Users and Groups. Auditing and Security. Backup and Recovery. Clusters. Disks and File Systems. Display. Kernel Configuration. Networking and Communications. Partition Manager. Performance Monitors. Peripheral Devices. Printers and Plotters. Process Management. Routine Tasks. Run SAM on Remote Systems. Software Management. Time. NFS Diskless Concepts. ServiceControl Manager (SCM) Overview. Manual Pages for Commands Used in Chapter 10.
11. Introduction to UNIX Performance Tools.Introduction. Standard UNIX Commands. Killing a Process. Signals. Show Remote Mounts with Showmount. Show System Swap. sar: The System Activity Reporter. timex to Analyze a Command. More Advanced and Graphical Performance Tools. HP GlancePlus/UX. HP VantagePoint Performance Agent and HP. Manual Pages for Some Commands Used in Chapter 11.
12. Networking.UNIX Networking. An Overview of IEEE802.3, TCP/IP. Internet Protocol (IP) Addressing. Using Networking. ARPA Services. Berkeley Commands. Host Name Mapping. Network File System (NFS). Set Up DNS Servers Using BIND 8.1.2 on 11i. Other Networking Commands and Setup. Manual Pages for Some Commands Used in Chapter 12.
13. Common Desktop Environment.Why a Graphical User Interface (GUI)? CDE Basics. Customizing CDE. CDE - Advanced Topics. X, Motif, and CDE Configuration Files. The Sequence of Events When CDE Starts. CDE and Performance. Conclusion.
14. HP-UX System Auditing and System.Configuration Repository. System Configuration Repository (SCR). Introduction to System Audits. Some Example Scripts.
UNIX SECTION.
15. UNIX File System Introduction.File System Layout, File and ls Commands. The Basis of UNIX. File Types. The file Command. File System Layout. Linux File System Layout. Manual Pages for Some Commands Used in Chapter 15.
16. Working with Files and Directories, Permissions, Commands, File Name Expansion, and Wild Cards.Introduction. Permissions. Absolute and Relative Path Names. File Name Expansion and Wild Cards. pwd and cd. chmod. cp. mv. mkdir. rm. rmdir. Using Commands. Manual Pages for Some Commands Used in Chapter 16.
17. Viewing Files - Redirection, cat, more, pg.Head and Tail Commands. First Things First. Redirection. Viewing Files with cat, more, pg, head, and tail. Manual Pages for Some Commands Used in Chapter 17.
18. UNIX Tools - split, wc, sort, cmp, diff, comm, dircmp, cut, paste, join, and tr.Not All Commands on All UNIX Variants. split. wc. sort. cmp, diff, and comm. dircmp. cut. paste. tr. Manual Pages for Some Commands Used in Chapter 18.
19. Advanced UNIX Tools - Regular Expressions, sed, awk, and grep.Three Commands. Regular Expression Words-of-Caution. Expressions Are Strings and Wildcards. sed. awk. grep. Manual Pages for Some Commands Used in Chapter 19.
20. Find Command.Find Overview. Manual Pages of find Command Used in Chapter 20.
21. The vi Editor.The vi Editor. Regular Expression Words-of-Caution. Expressions Are Strings and Wildcards. Modes and Notations. Starting a vi Session. Cursor Control Commands. Adding Text in vi. Deleting Text in vi. Changing Text in vi. Search and Replace in vi. Copying Text in vi. Undo and Repeat in vi. Save Text and Exit vi. Options in vi. Status in vi. Section Positioning and Placing Marks in Text. Joining Lines in vi. Cursor Placement and Adjusting the Screen. Shell Escape Commands. Macros and Abbreviations. Indenting Text. Shell Filters. Pattern Matching. Matching a Set. Matching a Range. Beginning and End of Line Search. Manual Pages for vi Command Used in Chapter 21.
22. Introduction to the KornShell, C Shell, and Bash.Different Shells. Introduction to KornShell. Introduction to the C Shell. Introduction to Bash. Manual Pages for Some Commands Used in Chapter 22.
23. Introduction to Shell Programming.Shell Programming. Steps to Create Shell Programs. ksh Programming. Shell Variables. An HP-UX Logical Volume Manager Shell Program. C Shell Programming. Manual Pages for Some Commands Used in Chapter 23.
HP-UX AND WINDOWS INTEROPERABILITY SECTION.
24. CIFS/9000 and Samba.CIFS/9000 Overview. Samba Overview. Additional Samba Topics.
25, The X Window System.X Window System Background. X Server Software.
26. Networking - UNIX and Windows Interoperability.NFS and X Windows. TCP/IP Networking Background. Internet Protocol (IP) Addressing. NFS Background. Using Windows and UNIX Networking. File Transfer Protocol (FTP). Other Connection Topics.
27. Advanced Server for UNIX.Windows Functionality on UNIX. Installing Advanced Server/9000 on UNIX. Sharing a Printer. Sharing a File System.
28. The Windows Command Line: NET Commands, POSIX Utilities, and Others.Introduction for UNIX System Administrators. The Windows Command Line. NET Commands. POSIX Utilities. Additional Commands.
29. Services for UNIX (SFU).Introduction to SFU. Using the Network File System (NFS) Functionality of SFU. Telnet Client. Telnet Server. UNIX Utilities. NFS Server. Password Synchronization.
Appendix A: Virtual Partitions Background.The change in name from HP-UX 11 to HP-UX 11i (i for Internet) reflects the intense focus of HP-UX on the Internet. Whether your HP-UX-based application is directly connected to the Internet or not, chances are the the Internet has made it more critical. Some of the most "traditional" applications that are many layers deep within companies have still been affected by the Internet. For example, it used to be that human resources information was kept under lock and key and was totally inaccessible from the outside world - now we're posting job openings on-line. Pricing information was shared only between sales people and their valued customers - now we have Internet-based auctions. I'm sure you've seen the impact the Internet has had on your HP-UX applications, making them more critical to the success of your business and making your knowledge as an HP-UX system administrator more valuable as well.
The paradox of the Internet age is that you need printed books more than ever to get your system administration job done. Athough system administrators use the Internet to obtain a lot of useful information, books are more essential than ever to keeping up with advancements in operating systems. The HP-UX 11i System Administration Handbook and Toolkit is here to give you the information you need to get your HP-UX systems up and running quickly.
As in all of my books, I cover what my customers tell me are the most critical aspects of HP-UX system administration. You can cover a lot in 1500 pages - but not everything. I carefully decided what material to cover in this book. Most of the material in the book is new or updated information from previous books. There are many advancements in the area of system administration that are new in HP-UX 11i.
One of the requests I received since my last book was published was to cover more on system setup before booting the HP-UX operating system. I now cover the boot process (PDC, ISL, hpux), Secure Web Console setup, Guardian Service Processor (GSP) setup, and other important setup topics in the first chapter.
As with my other books, this book includes a blueprint from which you can work. Many tips and recommendations are included in the book from my experience of working with HP-UX, as well as what I have learned working with many HP-UX system administrators over the years.
No matter how detailed a training course or manual, it always leaves out some of the specific tasks you'll need to perform. Instead of getting mired down in excruciating detail, I'll provide the common denominator of information every HP-UX system administrator needs to know. I'll provide you with all the essential information you'll need so that you'll be able to take on new and unforeseen system administration challenges with a good knowledge base.
You may very well find that you need additional resources as your system administration challenges increase. No matter what anyone tells you, no single resource can answer everything you need to know about HP-UX system administration. Just when you think you know everything there is to know about HP-UX system administration, you'll be asked to do something you've never dreamed of before. That's why I'm not trying to be all things to all people with this book. I cover what everyone needs to know and leave topics in specific areas to other people. You may need training courses, manuals, other books, or consulting services to complete some projects. In any case, I'll bet that every topic in this book would be worthwhile to know for every HP-UX system administrator. HP-UX 11i System Administration Handbook and Toolkit covers tasks all system administrators need to perform: It shows you how to perform each task, tells why you are doing it, and explains how it is affecting your system. Much of the knowledge I have gained has come from the fine HP-UX manual set and the concise on-line manual pages. Some of the procedures in the book are based on those in the HP-UX manual set and some of the command summaries in the book are based on the on-line manual pages. I am grateful for all of the hard work my HP associates have put into both the manual set and the on-line manual pages.
Speaking of examples, there have been many new HP 9000 hardware advancements made since my last book was published. Most of the examples have been updated to include new hardware, however, there are hundreds of thousands of existing systems that will be upgraded to HP-UX 11i so you will see examples on some older systems as well. There are also many system administration aspects of HP-UX that haven't changed since HP-UX 10.x, so the examples would apply on any hardware.
I hope you enjoy reading the book and learning the material as much as I did writing it.
Marty Poniatowskimarty_poniatowski@hp.com
The HP-UX 11i System Administration Handbook and Toolkit is composed of the chapters shown in the Table of Contents and on the inside cover of the book. This book is divided into the following three sections:
I have Section 2 due to the many requests I received to provide UNIX background for those readers with limited exposure to UNIX. Thus, this is a complete HP-UX system administration book, including this UNIX background.
There are many Web sites that can assist you in your HP-UX system administration endeavors. I have listed some of the more prominent HP-UX-related Web sites below as they existed at the time of this writing:
http://www.itrc.com
http://www.docs.hp.com
http://www.software.hp.com
http://www.hp.com/go/servicecontrol
http://docs.hp.com/hpux/
http://www.hp.com/go/icod
http://www.interex.org
http://docs.hp.com/hpux/onlinedocs/os/KCparams.OverviewAll.html
http://docs.hp.com/hpux/onlinedocs/os
http://www.IA64.hp.com
http://www.icann.org/registrars/accredited-list.html
ftp://contrib:9unsupp8@hprc.external.hp.com/sysadmin/
http://www.hummingbird.com/products/evals/index.html
http://www.perl.com
http://www.tpj.com
I am most grateful to Hewlett Packard Company for having allowed me to include select HP-UX manual pages in this book. I have received a great deal of positive feedback on the inclusion of manual pages in my previous books. Many readers find it helpful to have the manual pages in the book to refer to when reading it when there is no system available to check on a command (apparently a lot of people are reading my books while not at the office).
The manual pages included in the book are for HP-UX 10.x. This is done only for formatting reasons - the 10.x manual pages looked much better when inserted into the book. There are minimal differences between the manual pages of 10.x and 11i for the commands I have included in this book.
When a command is used for which there is an online manual page included in the book, the following information appears in the margin:
This is a "man page" block, which includes the man page icon, the command name, in this case isl, and the chapter number in which the online manual page appears, in this case Chapter 1.
The Table of Contents contains a complete list of the man pages appearing at the end of each chapter. The man pages for a command appear in the chapter to which the command is most applicable, even if it is not the first chapter in which the command is used. Commands pertaining to performance, for instance, have their man pages in the performance chapter, even if those commands are mentioned in an earlier chapter.