HP-UX: System Administration (3 day)

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26/04/10

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Course Overview

This course is ideal for 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.

Audience

Delegates should have a basic understanding of UNIX and about 3 months experience. Attendance at our Unix The Essentials course is recommended. Knowledge of a standard UNIX editor is required

Skills Gained

This course will allow delegates to understand the roles of a system administrator and use the:

• SAM tool
• Manage user and group issues
• Implement secure policies under HP-UX
• Manage all aspects of printer administration.

• Disks on an HP-UX system:
• How to use LVM to partition disks
• How to tell if a system is healthy
• How to resize filesystems that are too full
• How to fix broken filesystems
• How to recover in the event of a total failure.

Course Outline

System Administration

• The Superuser
• Switching Users
• System Administration Menu
• Adding Custom Commands to SAM

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
• Filesystems
• 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
• The Software Distributor
• 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

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
• Interrupting the Boot Process

Disaster Recovery

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