HP-UX System Administration

The HP-UX System Administration course is designed for System Administrators and Programmers and other Technical IT staff who require a working knowledge of the key tasks required to administer an HP-UX system.

The course assumes knowledge of the HP-UX Operating System to the level covered in the HP-UX Introduction Course. Some shell programming experience may also prove advantageous; this can be gained on the HP-UX Shell Programming Course.

On completion of the HP-UX System Administration course the delegate will have a greater awareness,both technical and practical,of the key tasks required to administer an HP-UX system,and completing these tasks by interacting via the command line or the System Management Homepage (SMH).

Delegates should have a basic understanding of UNIX and ideally some experience in the workplace. Attending our UNIX & Linux Essentials course is recommended.

Knowledge of a standard UNIX editor (e.g., vi) is required.

• System Administration
• The Superuser
• Switching Users
• System Administration Menu
• Adding Custom Commands to SAM
• System Management HomePage (SMH)
• Customising SMH

• User Management
• Adding a User
• Using SAM to Create a New User Account
• The User Environment

• Security
• Why Security?
• The HP-UX Advanced Security Sub-system

• Hardware and Device Files
• Hardware Overview
• Device Files

• Filesystems
• SVR4 Directory Layout
• HFS Filesystems Structure
• The Veritas Filesystems (VxFS)
• The HP-UX LVM
• Manual Commands
• Using Logical Volumes to Hold Filesystems
• Mounting Filesystems
• Filesystems Mounted at Boot
• Unmounting Filesystems
• Listing Mounted Filesystems
• Creating Filesystems Using SAM

• Filesystem Maintenance
• Monitoring Disk Usage
• Typical Areas That Need Monitoring
• HP-UX Housekeeping Scripts
• Maximum File Sizes
• Expanding Filesystems
• Swap
• Fixing Broken Filesystems - fsck

• The Software Distributor
• Distribution Depots and Spooling Software
• Creating a Distribution Depot
• Installing Software
• Examining a Directory Depot
• Verification

• Processes
• Understanding the Process
• Examining Processes
• Killing Processes
• Glance
• Timing Commands

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

• Backup and Restoring
• Why Backup?
• Choices of Backup Command
• The make-recovery Command
• The fbackup Command
• The cpio Command
• Restoring Files
• Tar
• The dd Command
• Creating an Ignite/UX Backup

• Printer Management
• Printing
• Printer Administration
• Printer Interface Scripts
• Local, Remote and Network Printers
• Starting/Stopping the Spooler
• Creating Print Queues
• Print Queue Maintenance
• HPDPS - HP Distributed Print System

• Booting and Shutting Down
• Init States (Run Levels)
• HP-UX Start-up Sequence
• Starting Daemons at Boot Time
• Starting and Stopping Subsystems
• Shutdown Commands
• The Boot Process (PA-RISC)
• Interrupting the Boot Process (PA-RISC)
• The Boot Process (Integrity Systems)
• Interrupting the Boot Process (Integrity Systems)

• Disaster Recovery
• Boot Failures
• System Recovery Tape
• Creating a System Recovery Tape
• Using a System Recovery Tape
• Recovering a System from an Ignite/UX Backup
• Problem Scenarios and Solutions
• Recovering from a Broken Kernel
• No root Password
• Problems With a Non-root Filesystem
• Broken root VG
• Cloning a System

• Changing Tunable Values in the HP-UX Kernel
• Why Modify The HP-UX Kernel?
• Dynamic Versus Static Elements
• Getting Information About Tunables
• Managing Kernel Configurations
• Viewing Current Kernel Tunable Usage
• Changing Kernel Tunable Values