Duration: 5 Days
In this hands-on course, you will prepare to successfully configure, manage, maintain, and administer HP-UX servers in a networked environment. You will focus on configuring disks, file systems, peripherals, and user accounts, as well as managing and configuring core OS, patches, and application software. Successful completion of HP-UX System and Network Administration I and II will prepare you for the HP-UX CSA technical certification exam. You will spend half of class in hands-on labs using HP servers.
What You Will Learn
- Install and manage HP-UX software and patches
- Configure and manage peripheral devices and device files
- Configure and manage disks using HP Logical Volume Manager (LVM)
- Configure and manage file systems using HP Journal File System (JFS)
- Configure HP-UX kernel drivers, subsystems, and tunable parameters
- Minimize planned and unplanned downtime with Dynamic Root Disk (DRD)
- Shut down, boot, and reboot Integrity HP-UX servers
Audience
HP-UX 11i system administrators and others who install, configure, and maintain HP-UX servers
Prerequistes
UNIX Fundamentals or equivalent experience
Course Outline
1. Navigating the System Management Homepage (SMH)
- System Administration Manager (SAM) and SMH
- Launching the SAM Graphical User
Interface (GUI) and Text User Interface (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 Systems Insight Manager (SIM)
Integration Concepts
2. Managing Users and Groups
- User and Group Concepts
- /etc/passwd, /etc/shadow, and /etc/group concepts
- Creating, Modifying, Deactivating, and Removing User Accounts
- Configuring Password Aging and Password Security Policies
- Managing Groups
- Managing /etc/skel
3. Navigating the HP-UX File
System
- Static and Dynamic Files and Directory Concepts
- OS and Application
Directory Concepts
- Top Level Directory Concepts and Contents
- Searching
for Files and Executables Using the find, whereis, which, and file Commands
4. Configuring Hardware
- Hardware Components
- CPU,
Cell, Crossbar, and Blade
- System Bus Adapter (SBA), Local Bus Adapter (LBA),
and I/O
- iLO/MP, Core I/O, and Interface Adapter Card
- Internal Disks,
Tapes, and DVD
- Disk Array, Logical Unit Number (LUN), Storage Area Network
(SAN), and Multipathing
- Partitioning
- nPar, vPar, VM, and Secure Resource
Partition
- System Type
- Entry-Class Rackmount Server
- Mid-Range
Rackmount Server
- High-End Server
- HP BladeSystem
- HP BladeSystem
c-Class Enclosure
- HP Integrity Blade Server
- Viewing System Hardware
Configuration
- Viewing nPar, vPar, and VM Hardware
- Hardware Address
Concepts
- Legacy Host Bus Adapter (HBA), Small Computer System Interface
(SCSI), and Fibre Channel (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 and Components
- Viewing Slot Addresses
- Installing Interface Cards with and without OL*
- Installing New Devices
5. Configuring Device Special Files (DSF)
- 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 Worldwide Identifiers
(WWID)
- Decoding Legacy and Persistent DSF Attributes
- Creating DSFs via
insf, mksf, and mknod
- Removing DSFs via rmsf
- Disabling and Enabling
Legacy Mode DSFs
6. 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
7. Managing File Systems
- File System
Concepts
- File System Types
- Superblock, Inode, Directory, Block, Extent,
and Intent Log Concepts
- Hard and Symbolic Link Concepts
- HFS and VxFS
Comparison
- Creating File Systems
- Mounting File Systems
- Unmounting
File Systems
- Automatically Mounting File Systems
- Mounting Compact Disc
File System (CDFS)
- Mounting Loopback File Systems
- Mounting ISOFS File
Systems
- Mounting Memory File Systems (MemFS)
8.
Managing Swap Space
- HP-UX Memory Concepts
- HP-UX Swap Concepts
- HP-UX
Swap Types
- HP-UX pseudoswap
- Enabling Swap via the Command Line Interface
(CLI)
- Enabling Swap via /etc/fstabv
- Monitoring Swap Space
- Disabling
Swap
- Guidelines for Configuring Swap Space
9.
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
10. Preparing for Disasters
- Disaster Recovery,
Mirroring, and DRD concepts
- Using DRD to Minimize Planned/Unplanned Downtime
- Installing DRD
- Using the DRD command
- Creating a DRD Clone
- Synchronizing a DRD Clone
- Verifying DRD Clone 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 and make_net_recovery
- Using a make_*_recovery Archive
- Interacting with the Recovery Process
11. Accessing the System Console
and the Integrated Lights-Out Management Processor (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, Access Levels, and Login Sessions
- Rebooting via
the MP
12. Booting Precision Architecture, Reduced Instruction Set
Computing (PA-RISC) Systems
- HP-UX Shut Down and Reboot Concepts
- PA-RISC
Boot Process Major Players
- PA-RISC Boot Disk Structures
- PA-RISC Boot
Process
- Autoboot and Manual Boot Concepts
- Interacting with the Boot
Console Handler (BCH) and Initial System Loader (ISL)/Initial Program Loader
(IPL)
13. Booting Integrity Systems
- HP-UX Shut Down and Reboot
Concepts
- Integrity Boot Process Major Players
- Integrity Boot Disk
Structures
- Integrity Boot Disk System, OS, and HP Service Partition (HPSP)
Structures
- Integrity and PA-RISC Boot Process Comparison
- Au
Course Labs
