HP-UX 11i v3 for Experienced HP-UX System Administrators (HK711S)

SPECIAL NOTES

This course replaces HE776S, which HP no longer schedules.

COURSE OVERVIEW

This course provides experienced HP-UX 11i System Administrators the opportunity to learn about and develop hands-on experience with many of the new, updated, and enhanced features of HP-UX 11i v3. Course topics of discussion include security, networking, and administration features, with hands-on lab exercises focusing on HP-UX 11i v3 administration features. The 3-day course is 50% lecture and 50% hands-on labs using HP servers.

PREREQUISITES

• HP-UX System and Network Administration I (H3064S) and HP-UX System and Network Administration II (H3065S) or
• HP-UX System and Network Administration for Experienced UNIX System Administrators (H5875S) or
• Experience administering HP-UX 11i servers

NOTE: If you have attended HE775 – HP-UX 11i v3 Features and Functions, please be aware that HE775 is a subset of HK711.

AUDIENCE

• System administrators familiar with HP-UX 11i v2

COURSE OBJECTIVES

At the conclusion of this course you should be able to:

• Manage mass storage using HP-UX 11i v3 agile addressing
• Implement new LVM features, including volume group quiescence, volume group attribute modification, striped logical volume mirrors, creation of LVM version 2.0 volume groups, and upgrades of LVM v1.0 volume groups
• Use Dynamic Root Disk to protect the root volume group
• Configure new crash dump features
• Perform a cold installation of HP-UX 11i v3
• Upgrade HP-UX 11i v2 to 11iv3
• Upgrade an earlier HP-UX 11iv3 version to a later 11iv3 media kit using Dynamic Root Disk
• Configure and monitor standard mode security extensions for user login and password control without converting to trusted mode
• Use new network configuration and monitoring tools
• Manage HP-UX 11i systems with System Management Homepage and new command line interfaces

NEXT STEPS

• HP Integrity Server Blades Administration (HC590S)

BENEFITS TO YOU

• Identify HP-UX 11i v3 features desired to enhance your HP-UX IT environment with the latest security, networking, and administration features
• Develop the knowledge and skills to implement the new HP-UX 11i v3 features you select for your data center to enhance server management, software security, and networking capabilities

COURSE OUTLINE

Introduction to HP-UX 11i v3

• Identify PA-RISC and Integrity server platforms that support HP-UX 11i v3
• Locate online documentation for HP-UX 11i v3, including release notes, administration guides, and white papers

HP-UX 11i v3 Hardware Addressing

• List the advantages of agile addressing
• Display storage devices using legacy addressing
• Display storage devices using agile addressing
• Toggle storage device addresses between agile and legacy addressing
• Use available CLUI, TUI, and GUI administration tools to manage addressable devices

HP-UX 11i v3 Dynamic Root Disk

• Minimize downtime with Dynamic Root Disk
• Creating and updating a clone
• Mange inactive images

HP-UX 11i v3 Installation and Update

• Perform a cold install of HP-UX 11i v3
• Update an existing HP-UX 11i v2 system to HP-UX 11i v3
• Update an earlier version of 11iv3 to a later version of 11iv3 via DRD

HP-UX 11i v3 Mass Storage

• Identify LVM enhancements
• Identify VxVM enhancements
• Use SMH tools to manage disks

HP-UX 11i v3 File Systems

• Identify file system enhancements (UFC, CacheFS, VxFS, NFS, CIFS, MemFS, ISO Image Files)

HP-UX 11i v3 User and Group Enhancements

• Configure and manage users and groups using new configuration and login security features
• Use available CLUI, TUI, and GUI administration tools to manage users and groups

HP-UX 11i v3 Kernel Tuning

• Define types, display and modify types of dynamically tunable kernel parameters
• Define and modify states of dynamically loadable kernel modules
• Create, display, export, import, load, and boot named kernel configurations
• Use available CLUI, TUI, and GUI administration tools to manage HP-UX 11i v3 kernel tuning

HP-UX 11i v3 Networking and Security Features

• Identify major new, updated, or enhanced security features
• Identify major new, updated, or enhanced networking features
• Use available CLUI, TUI, and GUI administration tools for managing security and network features

HP-UX 11i v3 Fault Management

• Use fault management features to display and analyze system health
• Enable/disable PCI error handling
• Perform PCI/PCI-X online addition, replacement, and deletion
• Use Dynamic nPartitions to online migrate a cell
• Configure selective, compressed and concurrent (parallel) dumps
• Configure core dump parameters for applications
• Create a live kernel dump

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For whom it is intended:

• Network administrator
• System administrator