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About this class 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. Who will the lesson benefit? 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 What delegates will learn 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.
The course also covers everything you need to know about: - 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.
Contents of this class 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
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