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Course Name:		HP-UX System & Network Admins for experienced UNIX Systems Admins Training

Deployment Options:		Onsite - Instructor-Led Training

Course Duration:		5 days depending on audience background and options

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Introduction:

This fast-paced intensive course is designed for experienced Tru64, AIX, Solaris, Linux or other UNIX administrators who need to understand the differences between HP-UX and standard UNIX. It is essential that students have existing UNIX system administration experience. The 5-day course is 50 percent lecture and 50 percent hands-on.

Customize it:

This 5-day HP-UX System & Network Admins for experienced UNIX Systems Admins course will be customized to your needs and specifications. Eno.com will assist you in identifying those needs and specifications. A word to the wise, there are many vendors of HP training. They will typically have a broad and general course, one size fits all, already developed and just put your organization's name on the title slide. This minimizes their effort and time investment. At Eno.com, every course is made to your exact and exacting specifications. We help you ensure what you are getting is what you really need even if at the beginning you weren't too sure of what that was. We fit the class to your needs. We never fit you into our standard, one size fits all, class.

Audience:

Experienced UNIX System administrators who are new to HP-UX systems

Prerequisite

Course Objectives:

After completing this course you will be able to:

Configure and manage HP-UX user accounts
Configure and manage HP-UX peripherals and device files
Configure and manage disk devices via LVM
Configure and manage JFS file systems
Configure network connectivity and services
Configure kernel drivers, subsystems, and tunable parameters
Shutdown, boot, and reboot HP-UX
Install HP-UX OS software, applications, and patches

Course Outline

HP-UX system administration overview

•Resources for system administrators
•Using the System Administration Manager (SAM)
•Managing user accounts
•Comparing and contrasting UNIX, shadow, and trusted system passwords
•Converting to a shadow password system
•Converting to a trusted system
•Configuring trusted system password policies
•Configuring trusted system user account policies
•Configuring trusted system terminal and modem policies

Connecting peripherals

•HP-UX processor roadmap
•HP-UX operating system roadmap
•HP-UX hardware product overview
•Hardware component overview
•Hardware addresses
•Slot addresses
•EFI hardware addresses
•SCSI device concepts and addresses
•Node Partition (nPar) concepts
•Virtual Partition (vPar) concepts
•nPar and vPar hardware addresses
•Installing interface cards with and without OLA/R
•Installing new devices

Configuring device files

•Understanding the purpose of HP-UX device files
•Understanding the HP-UX device file naming convention for disks, CDROMs, and tape drives
•Understanding the HP-UX device file naming convention for terminals and modems
•Viewing device file information with lssf, ll, ioscan, and lsdev
•Creating device files with insf, mksf, mknod, and SAM
•Removing device files with rmsf

LVM concepts and commands

•Understanding HP's supported disk partitioning solutions
•LVM concepts
•LVM extents
•LVM device files
•Creating an LVM physical volume
•Creating an LVM volume group
•Creating an LVM logical volume

HP-UX file system concepts and commands

•HP-UX file system types
•HFS and JFS advantages and disadvantages
•Creating HFS and JFS file systems
•Mounting and unmounting HFS and JFS file systems
•Mounting and unmounting CDFS file systems
•Mounting and unmounting LOFS file systems
•Automatically mounting file systems via /etc/fstab

HP-UX swap concepts and commands

•HP-UX swap concepts and types
•Understanding the purpose of physical memory vs. swap space
•Understanding the HP-UX swap reservation policy and the role of pseudoswap
•Comparing and contrasting device and file system swap
•Enabling device and file system swap
•Adding swap entries to /etc/fstab

Extending, reducing and removing logical volumes

•Disk space management tasks
•Extending and reducing volume groups
•Extending and reducing logical volume
•Extending and reducing file systems

Mirroring logical volumes

•LVM mirroring concepts
•Extending and reducing mirrors
•Synchronizing mirrors
•Splitting and merging mirrors

HP-UX disaster recovery

•Data backup and recovery
•LVM backup and recovery
•Backing up the boot disk

Accessing the system console

•Understanding the purpose of the Management Processor (MP)
•Connecting and configuring the MP serial port
•Connecting and configuring the MP LAN port
•Configuring MP user accounts
•Navigating the MP main menus
•Accessing nPar and vPar console and VFP interfaces
•Resetting and booting nPars via MP commands

Shutting down and booting PA-RISC systems

•HP-UX shutdown and reboot
•PARISC boot major players
•PARISC boot disk structures
•PARISC boot process overview
•Autoboot versus manual boot
•Interacting with the BCH
•Interacting with the ISL

Shutting down and booting Integrity systems

•Integrity boot process major players
•Integrity boot disk structure
•Integrity boot disk system partition structure
•Integrity boot disk OS partition structure
•Integrity boot disk HPSP partition structure
•PARISC / integrity boot process overview
•Autoboot versus manual boot
•Interacting with the EFI boot manager
•Interacting with the EFI shell
•Managing EFI file systems via the EFI shell
•Managing the EFI boot menu via the EFI shell
•Booting an arbitrary boot device via the EFI shell
•Interacting with the hpux.efi OS loader

Starting network services

•HP-UX run levels
•Configuring network services via /etc/rc.config.d/ files
•Controlling network services via /sbin/rc*.d/ directories and scripts
•Starting and stopping network services via /sbin/init.d/ scripts
•Creating custom startup/shutdown scripts

Configuring TCP/IP connectivity in HP-UX

•Installing LAN software
•Configuring link layer connectivity
•Configuring IP connectivity
•Configuring IP multiplexing
•Configuring routing tables
•Configuring the /etc/hosts file
•Configuring the /etc/rc.config.d/netconf file
•Configuring a DNS resolver client
•Configuring /etc/nsswitch.conf
•Troubleshooting connectivity

Configuring the HP-UX 11i v1 kernel

•Why reconfigure the kernel?
•Static kernel modules
•Dynamically loadable kernel modules
•Managing kernel drivers & subsystems
•Managing tunable parameters
•Moving the new kernel into place
•What if the new kernel won't boot?

Configuring the HP-UX 11i v2 kernel

•Why reconfigure the kernel
•Kernel configuration command overview
•kcweb overview
•kcweb architecture
•Using kcweb via a local browser
•Using kcweb via a remote browser
•Kernel modules
•Kernel module states
•Kernel module state changes
•Viewing module states via kcweb
•Managing module states via kcweb
•Kernel tunables
•Types of tunables
•Viewing tunables via kcweb
•Managing tunables via kcweb
•Kernel configurations
•Special kernel configurations
•Kernel configuration command overview
•Example: creating a new configuration
•Example: copying a config to another host
•Kernel troubleshooting overview
•Viewing the kernel change log
•Viewing the kcweb logs
•Booting an alternate kernel
•Booting to tunable maintenance mode

Installing software with SD-UX

•Understanding the features and benefits of HP's Software Distributor (SD-UX) technology
•Understanding the purpose of SD-UX bundles, products, and filesets
•Understanding the purpose of SD-UX depots
•Starting and stopping the swagentd daemon
•Installing software using swinstall
•Updating software using swinstall
•Listing software using swlist
•Removing software using swremove
•Creating an SD-UX depot with swcopy