HP-UX System and Network Administration for Experienced UNIX® System Administrators (H5875S)

COURSE OVERVIEW

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. Successful completion of the course will help prepare students for the HP-UX Certified System Administrator (CSA) certification exam. The 5-day course is 50 percent lecture and 50 percent hands-on labs using HP servers.

PREREQUISITES

• Existing knowledge and system administration experience of a version of UNIX

AUDIENCE

• Experienced UNIX system administrators who are new to HP-UX

COURSE OBJECTIVES

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

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

NEXT STEPS

• Become an HP-UX Certified System Administrator (CSA) by successfully completing the HP-UX CSA certification exam
• Learn more about BladeSystem and partitioning technologies in our HP-UX hardware and partitioning curriculum
• Learn more about HP-UX high availability, virtualization, security, and performance tools in our HP-UX advanced administration curriculum

BENEFITS TO YOU

• Build on your existing UNIX system administration experience to quickly develop HP-UX administration skills
• Become an HP-UX Certified System Administrator (CSA) by successfully completing the Certified System Administrator certification exam

COURSE OUTLINE

Navigating the System Management Homepage (SMH)

• SAM and SMH overview
• Launching the SMH GUI and TUI
• Verifying SMH certificates
• Logging into the SMH
• Navigating the SMH interface
• Launching SMH tools
• Launching SMH tasks
• Viewing SMH logs
• Managing SMH access control
• Managing SMH authentication
• SMH and SIM integration concepts

Configuring Hardware

• Hardware component overview
• CPU, cell, crossbar, and Blade overview
• SBA, LBA, and I/O overview
• iLO/MP, core I/O, and interface adapter card overview
• Internal disks, tapes, and DVD overview
• Disk array, LUN, SAN, and multipathing overview
• Partitioning overview
• nPar, vPar, VM, and secure resource partition overview
• HP Integrity entry-class rackmount servers
• HP Integrity mid-range servers
• HP Integrity high-end servers
• HP BladeSystem
• HP Integrity Superdome 2
• Viewing the system hardware configuration
• Viewing nPar, vPar, and VM hardware addresses
• Hardware address concepts
• Legacy HBA, SCSI, and FC hardware address concepts
• Agile View HBA, SCSI, and FC hardware address concepts
• Viewing legacy hardware addresses
• Viewing LUNs via Agile View
• Viewing a LUN’s lunpaths via Agile View
• Viewing an HBA’s lunpaths via Agile View
• Viewing LUN health via Agile View
• Viewing LUN attributes via Agile View
• Enabling and disabling lunpaths
• Slot address concepts
• Slot address components
• Viewing slot addresses
• Installing interface cards with and without OL*
• Installing new devices

Configuring Device Special Files

• DSF attribute concepts
• DSF directories
• Legacy DSF names
• Persistent DSF names
• LUN, disk, and DVD DSF names
• Boot disk DSFs
• Tape drive DSFs
• Tape autochanger DSFs
• Terminal, modem, and printer DSFs
• Listing legacy DSFs
• Listing persistent DSFs
• Correlating persistent and legacy DSFs
• Correlating persistent DSFs with lunpaths and WWIDs
• Decoding legacy and persistent DSF attributes
• Creating DSFs via insf, mksf, and mknod
• Removing DSFs via rmsf
• Disabling and enabling legacy mode DSFs

Managing Disk Devices

• Disk partitioning concepts
• Whole disk partitioning concepts
• LVM disk partitioning concepts
• LVM physical volume concepts
• LVM volume group concepts
• LVM logical volume concepts
• LVM extent concepts
• LVM extent size concepts
• LVM versions and limits
• LVM DSF directories
• LVMv1 device files
• LVMv2 device files
• Creating physical volumes
• Creating LVMv1 volume groups
• Creating LVMv2 volume groups
• Creating logical volumes
• Verifying the LVM configuration
• Comparing disk space management tools

Managing File Systems

• File system types
• HFS and VxFS comparison
• Creating file systems
• Mounting file systems
• Automatically mounting file systems
• Mounting CDFS file systems
• Mounting LOFS file systems
• Mounting ISO file systems
• Mounting MemFS file systems

Managing Swap Space

• HP-UX memory concepts
• HP-UX swap concepts
• HP-UX swap types
• HP-UX pseudoswap
• Enabling swap via the CLI
• Enabling swap via /etc/fstab
• Monitoring swap space
• Disabling swap
• Guidelines for configuring swap space

Maintaining Logical Volumes and File Systems

• Defragmenting file systems
• Repairing corrupted file systems
• Monitoring free space
• Reclaiming wasted file system space
• Extending, reducing, and removing volume groups
• Extending, reducing, and removing logical volumes
• Extending and reducing file systems

Preparing for Disasters

• Disaster recovery, mirroring, and DRD clone concepts
• Using DRD to minimize planned downtime
• Using DRD to minimize unplanned downtime
• Installing DRD
• Using the drd command
• Creating a DRD clone
• Synchronizing a DRD clone
• Verifying a DRD clone’s status
• Accessing inactive images via DRD-safe commands
• Managing software via DRD-safe commands
• Managing kernel tunables via DRD-safe commands
• Accessing inactive images via other commands
• Activating and deactivating an inactive image
• Customizing the make_*_recovery archive contents
• Backing up the boot disk via make_tape_recovery
• Backing up the boot disk via make_net_recovery
• Using a make_*_recovery archive
• Interacting with the recovery process

Accessing the System Console and the iLO/MP

• Management processor concepts
• Viewing MP/console ports
• Connecting MP serial and LAN ports
• Accessing the MP
• Navigating the MP menu and web interfaces
• Accessing nPar, vPar, and VM consoles
• Accessing the VFP, console log, and system event log
• Accessing the MP help menus
• Accessing the MP command menu
• Configuring the MP LAN interface
• Enabling MP remote access
• Managing MP user accounts and access levels
• Managing MP login sessions
• Rebooting via the MP

Booting PA-RISC Systems

• HP-UX shutdown and reboot concepts
• PA-RISC boot process major players
• PA-RISC boot disk structures
• PA-RISC boot process overview
• Autoboot and manual boot concepts
• Interacting with the BCH and ISL/IPL

Booting Integrity Systems

• HP-UX shutdown and reboot concepts
• Integrity boot process major players
• Integrity boot disk structures
• Integrity boot disk system, OS, and HPSP structures
• Integrity and PA-RISC boot process comparison
• UEFI/EFI addressing concepts
• Autoboot and manual boot concepts
• Booting from primary, alternate, and arbitrary boot devices
• Booting from Ignite-UX servers and recovery archives
• Managing boot menu settings
• Managing console settings
• Interacting with the UEFI/EFI shell
• Interacting with the hpux.efi OS loader

Managing System Startup

• 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 IP Connectivity

• Installing and verifying LAN software
• Configuring link layer connectivity
• Configuring IP connectivity
• Configuring IP multiplexing
• Configuring IP routing
• Configuring the system hostname and /etc/hosts
• Configuring network tunable parameters
• Configuring static and default routes
• Configuring the resolver
• Configuring the name service switch
• Troubleshooting network connectivity
• Configuring network services

Configuring the HP-UX Kernel

• Kernel configuration concepts
• Special kernel configurations
• Kernel configuration commands
• Modifying the current kernel configuration
• Creating a named configuration
• Copying and loading a configuration
• Kernel module concepts, states, and state changes
• Viewing and managing module states
• Kernel tunable concepts and types
• Viewing, managing, and monitoring kernel tunables
• Viewing, managing, and monitoring kernel resource alarms
• Kernel troubleshooting
• Viewing the kernel change log
• Booting from an alternate kernel
• Booting via override parameters
• Booting to tunable maintenance mode

Managing Software with SD-UX

• SD-UX software structure concepts
• SD-UX software depot concepts
• SD-UX IPD concepts
• SD-UX daemon and agent concepts
• Listing software
• Installing and updating software
• Removing software

Managing Patches with SD-UX

• Patch concepts
• Patch naming convention concepts
• Patch supersession concepts
• Patch rating concepts
• Patch source concepts
• Patch tool concepts
• Downloading and installing HPSC patches
• Installing patches from DVD, tape, and directory depots
• Listing and removing patches

Managing Depots with SD-UX

• SD-UX depot server concepts and advantages
• Planning for depots
• Adding software and patches to a depot
• Removing software from a depot
• Registering or unregistering a depot
• Pulling and pushing software from a depot

Installing the OS with Ignite/UX

• Install source concepts
• Planning an install
• Choosing an operating environment
• Choosing an install-time security bundle
• Locating the source media
• Initiating a PA-RISC or an Integrity install
• Navigating the Ignite-UX menus
• Verifying an installation
• Completing post-install configuration tasks

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For whom it is intended:

• System administrator