HP-UX Training : Advanced HP-UX Systems Administration

This course will teach the commands and methods needed to setup and manage advanced features in an HP-UX / Unix system. The course will also use a problem solving approach in the lab exercises to teach system managers the proper application of advanced features.

Systems: HP-UX versions 11i v1 and v2 on any supported hardware platform

HP-UX Training Prerequisites

It is assumed that the participant has successfully completed the Fundamentals of HP-UX, and the HP-UX Systems Administration course or equivalent system time as a user.

HP-UX Training Course duration

This course normally requires five (5) days, approximately 50% lecture, and 50% lab time.

HP-UX Training Course Objectives

On completion of this course, a systems administrator should be able to implement security features for the system and it's users; enable communications via modems; define name service capabilities; and use advanced options and setups for the shell command interpreters.

HP-UX Training Course outline

Networking Management

    Review of System Concepts for Systems Administrators
        Process concepts
        Shell command usage and review

    Advanced Network Features
        Review of network basic setup
        Subnet addressing
        Using arp (address resolution protocol)
        Network statistics
        Controlling the inetd process
        Miscellaneous network commands/tools

    File Transfer Capabilities
        The ftp utility:
        setup
        file capabilities
        additional features
        Using trivial ftp (tftp)

    Network File System (NFS) Features
        Review of basic NFS setup
        Advanced capabilities of server setup
        Advanced capabilities in client setup
        Setting up the automounter

    Name Services
        Capabilities of DNS
        BIND configurations
        Configuring the resolver
        Configuring the named process
        Cache initialization
        Using nslookup to obtain information

    Miscellaneous network capabilities
        Setting up network printer(s) (queues)
        Backups across a network

Security Issues

    Advanced Security Concepts for System Administrators
        Overview of issues related to HP-UX / Unix security
        System administrator functions related to security

        System Security Features Updating
        Security levels in an HP-UX / Unix system

    Managing of System Users
        Using the root account securely
        Password issues
        changing
        encryption
        aging and expirations
        shadow files
        Groups

    File System Security
        File permissions review
        Special permissions: SUID,SGID,Sticky Bits
        Device files
        Using chown and chgrp
        Backups

    Using Unix Log Files
        Users
        lastlog
        utmp
        wtmp
        acct
        syslog
        System
        sulog/messages

    Network Security
        Proper maintenance of the /etc/hosts file
        Using the "r" commands
        The restricted shell
        NFS security implications
        TFTP issues

Performance Management

    Performance Basics
        Factors affecting system performance
        Performance metrics
        Virtual system caching
        Effects of Computer Architecture

    Memory Management
        Memory usage by the kernel
        Process creation
        Buffer Cache (and allocation control)
        Shared Memory / Page Caching
        Paging and Swapping
        Monitoring Tools

    CPU Management
        Software priorities concepts
        Impact of the nice parameter
        Priority boosting
        Monitoring tools

    I/O Management
        Breakdown of disk I/O
        Measuring Disk and terminal I/O
        File system structure concepts
        File system caching
        Name Lookup Caching
        Tuning the Paged Buffer Cache Size
        Monitoring tools

    Network Management
        TCP/IP Layers
        Socket controls
        Controlling network services
        Setting network buffer values
        Monitoring tools

    NFS Performance
        RPC Performance Considerations
        Impact of NFS Blocking and Caching Sizes
        Optimizing NFS Servers and Clients
        Monitoring tools

    X-window basics and implementation
        Client-server communications
        Optimizing a system with X
        Reducing xterm memory usage
        Monitoring tools

    Modification of Performance Parameters
        Summaries
            Memory management
            CPU management
            I/O management
            Network management
        User program management

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