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HP-UX System Administration Course Overview

This Hewlett Packard HP-UX System Administration training course is designed to give delegates practical experience in the administration of an HP-UX UNIX System.  Reference will be made to the HP-UX commands required to administer the system, although practical work will concentrate on using the System Administration Manager (SAM) to achieve the course objectives.

Skills Gained

The delegates will have knowledge and practise in:

• HP-UX Server Range
• The Role of the System Administrator
• System Administration Manager (SAM)
• File Systems and Storage
• System Startup and Shutdown
• Interacting with IPL
• Booting from Alternate Media
• User Account Administration
• Access Control Lists
• Trusted Security Features
• Printer Configuration
• Logical Volume Manager (LVM)
• Create, Modify and Delete Logical Volumes
• Important LVM Commands
• Mount/Unmount Filesystems
• Filesystem Layout
• Using Swap Space
• The Veritas Volume Manager
• Nodes and Virtual Partitioning
• Backup and Restore Facilities
• Using tar and cpio
• Using fbackup and frecover
• Incremental Backups
• System Recovery Using Ignite-UX
• Background Jobs and Scheduling
• Kernel Configuration
• Software Installation
• Software Distribution
• Using SD Commands
• System Logging
• Performance Monitoring

Who will the Course Benefit?

The HP-UX System Administration course is designed for System Administrators and Programmers and other Technical IT staff who require a full working knowledge of how to administer an HP-UX system.

The course assumes knowledge of the HP-UX Operating System to the level covered in the HP-UX Introduction Course. Some shell programming experience may also prove advantageous; this can be gained on the HP-UX Shell Programming Course.

Course Objectives

On completion of the HP-UX System Administration course the delegate will have practical experience of the Systems Administration Manager (SAM), allowing them to administer an HP-UX system.

Examinations

This course, together with the HP-UX Fundamentals course, covers some of the topics required for the HP-UX 11i v3 System Administration (HP0-P20) exam.

Before taking any exam, ensure you have the recommended experience.  The HP-UX website lists all exam requirements and these are updated regularly.

Exams are not included as part of the course.

Pre-Requisite Courses

• HP-UX Introduction
• HP-UX Shell Programming

Follow-On Courses

• HP-UX Advanced Shell Programming Tools
• Oracle SQL
• TCP/IP Networking
• Apache Web Server

NOTE: Course technical content is subject to change without notice.

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HP-UX System Administration Training Course

Course Contents - DAY 1

Course Introduction

• Administration and Course Materials
• Course Structure and Agenda
• Delegate and Trainer Introductions

Session 1: THE HP SERVER RANGE

• HP Integrity Series Servers
• HP Integrity Entry-Class Servers
• HP Integrity Mid Range Servers
• HP Integrity Superdome Servers
• HP 9000 Series Servers
• HP 9000 Superdome
• HP Servers RP8420-32
• HP 9000 RP4440 Server
• Node Partitioning Support

Session 2: THE SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR'S ROLE

• Role of a Systems Administrator
• Directory Overview
• The root login and the su command
• Tracking the Use of su

Session 3: SYSTEM ADMINISTRATION MANAGER

• Key Movement
• SAM Menu Structure
• SAM Main Screen
• SAM Logging Options
• Log File Viewer
• Files and Directories
• Add Custom Commands to SAM
• Non-Root SAM Access
• Exercise:   Add Custom Commands to SAM
• Exercise:   Allow Non-Root SAM Access for Selected User

Session 4: SYSTEM STARTUP AND SHUTDOWN

• System Startup Process for HP 9000 Server
• HP Integrity Server Booting Differences
• ISL (Initial Systems Loader}
• Understanding Hardware Addresses
• Manually Booting HP-UX in Single User-Mode
• Booting from Another Disk
• The Init Procedure
• The /etc/inittab File
• Reading the /etc/inittab File
• System Run States
• Using Unique Keywords
• System Startup Procedures
• The rc Process
• Sequencer Directories
• Execution Scripts
• Contents of the Template File
• Configuration Files
• Changing the /etc/inittab Files
• Shutdown and rc
• Kill Scripts
• Steps to Add Your Own Start-up Scripts
• Shutdown Permissions
• Recovering from a Lost root Password
• The Reboot Command
• Exercise:   Create Startup and Shutdown Scripts

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HP-UX System Administration Training Course

Course Contents - DAY 2

Session 5: ACCOUNT MANAGEMENT

• Adding a New User
• Adding an Entry to the /etc/passwd File
• Password Ageing
• Adding an Entry to the /etc/group File
• Customising a Users Environment
• The Default Login Shell
• Managing User Accounts
• Listing Users
• Restricting root Login
• Removing a User Registration from The System
• Setting up Users Through SAM
• Removing Users Through SAM
• Access Control Lists
• Trusted Security Features
• Converting to a Trusted System
• Reverting to a Non-Trusted System
• Password Files
• The Protected Password Database
• Password Ageing
• Time Based Access Control
• Device Based Access Control
• Exercise:   Add a New User with Defined Attributes
• Exercise:   Create a File with Access Control Lists
• Exercise:   Test New Account and ACL Files

Session 6: PRINT SERVICE MANAGEMENT

• Printer Configuration
• Printer Glossary
• Printer Commands
• The lpadmin Command
• The lpfence Command
• The lpshut Command
• The lpsched Command
• The accept command
• The reject Command
• The lpmove Command
• The lpana Command
• The lpstat Command
• The lp Command
• The lpalt Command
• The enable Command
• The disable Command
• The cancel Command
• Printer Configuration
• Printer Configuration Files and Directories
• Exercise:   Installing a Printer

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HP-UX System Administration Training Course

Course Contents - DAY 3

Session 7: FILESYSTEM CONFIGURATION

• File System Structure
• Creating Filesystems
• Special newfs Arguments
• Mounting Filesystems
• Checking the Filesystem Table
• Using the /etc/fstab File
• The lost+found Directory
• Unmounting Filesystems
• Checking and Repairing Filesystems
• Using the fsck Command
• Common Errors Found by fsck
• Using the df Command
• Making Device Nodes
• Device Naming Conventions
• Card Instance Numbers and Device Naming Conventions
• File System Organisation
• File System Types
• Supporting File Systems
• The VxFS File Systems

Session 8: LOGICAL VOLUME MANAGER

• Filesystem Configuration
• Traditional Filesystem Configuration
• Traditional Filesystem Problems
• The Logical Volume Manager (LVM)
• Benefits of LVM
• An introduction to Mirroring and Disk Striping
• Mirroring
• Disk Striping
• Quorum
• Important LVM Commands
• Exercise:   Creating Volume Groups, Logical Volumes and File Systems. Mounting and Unmounting Filesystems

Session 9: MANAGING SWAP SPACE

• Using Swap Space
• What is Swap Space?
• Types of Swap Space
• Creating Swap Space
• Enabling Swap Space

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HP-UX System Administration Training Course

Course Contents - DAY 4

Session 10: THE VERITAS VOLUME MANAGER

• VxVM Concepts and Structures
• RAID Levels in VxVM
• The VxVM System Daemons
• Common VxVM Commands
• Overview of VxVM Commands
• Veritas Enterprise Administrator (VEA)
• Volume Manager Support Operations Menu
• Comparing LVM Terminology and Commands with VxVM

Session 11: NODES AND VIRTUAL PARTITIONING

• The Management Processor
• Node Partitioning
• nPartition Management Tool
• Virtual Partitioning

Session 12: BACKUP AND RESTORE

• Using the cpio Command
• Using the cpio -o Command
• Using the find Command with cpio
• Using the ls command with cpio
• Using the cat Command with cpio
• Using the cpio -I Command
• Using the cpio -p Command
• Creating a tar Archive
• Reading/Verifying a tar Archive
• Restoring from a tar Archive
• Using the dd Command
• The fbackup Command
• The frecover Command
• Incremental Backups
• Creating an Incremental Backup
• Recovering from an Incremental Backup
• System Recovery Using Ignite-UX
• Creating a Recovery Tape
• Updating a Recovery Tape
• Exercise:   Use of cpio, tar and fbackup

Session 13: BACKGROUND JOBS

• Starting Background Jobs
• The nohup Command
• The nice Command
• Using cron Processes
• Creating cron Processes
• Creating crontab Entries
• Using the crontab Command
• The at Command
• Authorisation for the at Command
• Exercise:   Creating a crontab Entry
• Exercise:   Using the at Command

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HP-UX System Administration Training Course

Course Contents - DAY 5

Session 14: KERNEL CONFIGURATION

• Reconfiguring the Kernel
• Creating a New Configuration File
• Compiling the Kernel
• Installing the new Kernel Configuration files
• Rebooting the System
• Verifying the Changes
• Kernel Tuneable Parameters

Session 15: SOFTWARE INSTALLATION

• Installing HP-UX
• Beginning the Install
• Software Distribution
• SD Commands
• Glossary of Terms
• SD Structure
• SD Database
• Using the SD Commands
• SD Command List
• The swpackage Command
• The Product Specification File
• Differences Between swcopy and swpackage

Session 16: SYSTEM LOGGING

• The syslog.conf File
• Facility and Priority Values
• The syslogd Daemon Process

Session 17: PERFORMANCE MONITORING

• Addressing the Problem
• Understanding the Workload
• Understanding Bottlenecks
• Performance Monitoring Tools
• SAR (System Activity Reporter)
• VMSTAT (Virtual Memory Statistics)
• SWAPINFO (System Paging Space Information)
• IOSTAT (I/O Statistics)
• Monitoring System Processes

Session 18: WORKSHOPS

• HP-UX 11 System Administration Course Workshops