HP-UX Training Overview
This course will teach the commands and methods needed to setup
and manage an HP-UX system. The course will also use a problem
solving approach in the lab exercises to teach system administrators
advanced topics, for long-term mangement of the system.
Customized for: HP-UX 11i v3, PA-RISC & Itanium platforms
HP-UX Training Prerequisites
It is assumed that the student has successfully completed the
Fundamentals of HP-UX course, or has equivalent system
time as a user.
HP-UX Training Course duration
This course normally requires five (5) days, approximately 60%
lecture, and 40% lab time.
HP-UX Training Course Objectives
On completion of this course, a systems administrator should be able to
install, update, and boot the HP-UX operating environment; set up
user accounts and directories; prepare queues for use; perform
backups for integrity and performance reasons; monitor the system
for performance and do basic setup of network software and capabilities.
HP-UX Training Course outline
Advanced System Concepts for System Administrators
- Process concepts
- Shell command usage and review
- Optimizing system help information
- System administrator functions
- Using the root account
- HP-UX administrative tools
- commands
- SAM
- System Management Homepage
System Installation and Updating
- Installation types and methods
- Installing the HP-UX operating system (Ignite-UX)
- Updating HP-UX using update-ux
- HP-UX product control (swinstall, swlist, swremove)
- Obtaining and installing patches to HP-UX
- Rebuilding/reconfiguring the HP-UX kernel
Startup and Shutdown
- Comparison of PA-RISC and Itanium boot sequences
- Default bootstrap
- Boot Admin mode (PA-RISC) & EFI modes (Itanium)
- Boot to single-user mode
- Startup methods and procedures
- Shutdown procedures
Managing of System Users
- /etc/passwd /etc/group files and contents
- Standard, Shadow, and Trusted modes
- UID and GID concepts
- Creation of a user account
- Controlling access by groups
- Login sequence
- Setting up user environment files
- Removing a user account
Managing Printer Queues
- Creation of an execution print queue
- Commands to manipulate queues
- Commands to manipulate jobs in queues
File System Concepts and Review
- Whole disk and LVM disk layouts
- Device naming conventions
- File system structure contents
- Supported file types
- Special permission codes
- Manipulation of Access Control Lists (ACLs)
Managing Disk and Tape Volumes
- Creating (disk) device files
- Creating file systems with newfs
- Changing file system attributes - tunefs & vxtunefs
- Checking file system structure with fsck
- mounting and umounting file systems
- open file control via fuser and lsof
- Using LVM on HP-UX
- physical volume creation (pvcreate)
- volume group creation (vgcreate)
- logical volume creation (lvcreate)
- controlling software mirroring and striping
- volume group and logical volume extensions
- file system extensions (fsadm)
- Commands to manipulate tape volumes:
- (vx)dump and (vx)restore utilities
- fbackup and frestore utilities
Monitoring System Activity
- Informational Utilities
- The vmstat utility
- The iostat utility
- The sar utility
- The netstat utility
Maintaining System Integrity
- Login and user accounting
- Command/process level accounting
- Disk space usage utilities
- Using cron tables
- Basic CDE data files and setups
Network Setup and Configuration
- Automated methods: sam and /etc/set_parms
- TCP/IP address selection
- Host names and related files
- Configuring network devices
- Defining routers and subnet addressing
- Network testing with ping
- Network utilities: telnet,rlogin, rcp, remsh
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