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Table of Contents
Preface.
About the Book.
Relevant URLs.
Manual Pages Supplied with this Book.
Acknowledgments.
Duane Zitzner.
The Author — Marty Poniatowski.
Greg Powell.
Donna Kelly.
Elizabeth Zinkann.
Brian Hackley.
Corey Dow.
Pat Kilfoyle.
Steven M. Wolff.
Norbert H. Vicente.
Permissions.
Reviewers.
Conventions Used in this Book.
Section 1 - HP-UX System Administration.
1. Booting (PDC, ISL, hpux), Secure Web Console, GSP Configuration, Virtual
Partition Booting.
Background. Boot Process Overview. Boot Console
Handler (BCH) & Processor Dependent Code (PDC). PDC Commands. Initial System
Loader. HPUX Secondary System Loader (hpux). Consoles. Secure Web Console. Connecting
and Configuring the Secure Web Console. Configuring the Guardian Service Processor
(GSP). Virtual Partition Boot Process Overview. Virtual Partition Boot States.
setboot Command and vPars. Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI). Manual Pages
for Commands Used in Chapter 1.
2. Installing HP-UX.
Topics Covered in this Chapter. Background on
HP-UX 11i Operating Environments. Install HP-UX 11i Operating Environment. Boot
System and “Advanced Installation” . Set System Parameters after
Boot. Software Distributor Example. Loading Patches. Software Distributor Background.
Installing and Updating Software (Command Line or GUI). Copying Software to
a Depot (Command Line or GUI). Removing Software from a System (Command Line
or GUI). List Information about Installation Software. Configure Installed Software.
Verify Software. Package Software That Can Later Be Installed (Local Sys Only).
Control Access to Software Distributor Objects. Modify Information about Loaded
Software (Local System Only). Register or Unregister a Depot. Manage Jobs (Command
Line or GUI, this is SD-OV only). Listing Software. Manual Pages for Commands
Used in Chapter 2.
3. Logical Volume Manager and Veritas Volume Manager.
Introduction. Veritas Volume Manager. Logical
Volume Manager Background. Logical Volume Manager Terms. Disk Mirroring. Logical
Volume Manager Commands. Physical Volume Commands. Volume Group Commands. Logical
Volume Commands. JFS and OnlineJFS Commands. Commonly Used LVM Procedures. Adding
Disks. Reconfiguring Some Disks — An Example of Using Some Logical Volume.
Commands. Why Change? Optional Procedure to Exchange Dump Priorities. HP VERITAS
Volume Manager. HP VERITAS Volume Manager Setup. Volume Manager Storage Administrator.
HP VERITAS Volume Manager Mirroring and Striping. Some Additional File System-Related
Commands. Viewing File Systems with bdf. File System Maintenance with fsck.
Initialize with mediainit.
4. Building an HP-UX Kernel.
Modify and Build an HP-UX Kernel. Building a
Kernel. Kcweb.
5. Devices.
Background on Device Files and Peripherals.
Device Files in HP-UX 11i. An Example of Adding a Peripheral. Device Files in
Cell-Based Systems.
6. Backup.
Built-In Backup Programs. Tar. Cpio. fbackup
and frecover. Dd. dump and restore. Backup of Virtual Partitions. Backup to
a Tape Drive on the Local Virtual Partition. Backup to a Tape Drive on a Different
Local Virtual Partition. Introduction.
7. System Startup and Shutdown Scripts.
System Startup and Shutdown Scripts. System
Shutdown. System Startup and Shutdown Scripts in Virtual Partitions. Application
Startup in Virtual Partitions. Virtual Partition Startup. Manual Pages for Commands
Used in Chapter 7.
8. Users and Groups.
Set Up Users and Groups. Assigning Users to
Groups. Virtual Partitions and Users. Individual User Setup. Application Users.
NIS for Managing Users. What Does NIS Manage? How Do I Plan For NIS? How Do
I Configure an NIS Master Or Slave Server? How Do I Configure an NIS Client?
How Do I Maintain My NIS Environment?
9. Ignite-UX.
Ignite-UX Overview. Set up Server with Depots
and Install Clients. Run Ignite-UX GUI. System Recovery with Ignite-UX. System
Recovery to Local Tape Drive with make_tape_recovery. Creating Bootable Recovery
Archives with make_net_recovery. Using Ignite-UX GUI to Create a vPar Archive.
Virtual Partition Recovery.
10. System Administration Manager (SAM) and ServiceControl Manager (SCM).
SAM and SCM. SAM Overview. Running and Using
SAM as Superuser. Author's Disclaimer - SAM is a Moving Target. Running Restricted
SAM Builder. Accounts for Users and Groups. Adding a User. Adding a Group. Auditing
and Security. Audited Events and Audited System Calls. Audited Users. Authenticated
Commands. System Security Policies. Backup and Recovery. Scheduling a Backup.
Interactive Backup and Recovery. Performing a Restore. Clusters. Disks and File
Systems. Disk Devices. File Systems. Logical Volumes. Swap. Volume Groups. Display.
Kernel Configuration (see Chapter 4 for kcweb). Configurable Parameters. Drivers.
Dump Devices. Subsystems. Networking and Communications. Bootable Devices. DNS
(BIND). Hosts. NIS. NIS+. Name Service Switch. Network Interface Cards. Network
Services. Network File Systems. System Access. Partition Manager. Performance
Monitors. Disk and Terminal Activity. GlancePlus. Inter-Process Communication
Facility Status. Processes with Highest CPU Usage. System Activity. System Properties.
Virtual Memory Activity. Peripheral Devices. Cards. Device List. Tape Drives.
Terminals and Modems. Uninterruptable Power Supplies. Printers and Plotters.
Print Requests. Printers and Plotters. Save/Restore Spooler Configuration. Process
Management. Process Control. Scheduling Cron Jobs. Routine Tasks. Backup and
Recovery. Selective File Removal. System Log Files. System Shutdown. Run SAM
on Remote Systems. Software Management. Time. NFS Diskless Concepts. ServiceControl
Manager (SCM) Overview. Manual Pages for Commands Used in Chapter 10.
11. Introduction to UNIX Performance Tools.
Introduction. Standard UNIX Commands. I/O and
CPU Statistics with iostat. Virtual Memory Statistics with vmstat. Network Statistics
with netstat. Check Processes with ps. Killing a Process. Signals. Show Remote
Mounts with showmount. Show System Swap. sar: The System Activity Reporter.
timex to Analyze a Command. More Advanced and Graphical Performance Tools. HP
GlancePlus/UX. Process List Description. CPU Report Screen Description. Memory
Report Screen Description. Disk Report Screen Description. GlancePlus Summary.
Using OpenView Performance Agent to Identify Bottlenecks. HP OpenView Performance
Agent and HP OpenView Performance Analyzer/UX. Manual Pages for Commands Used
in Chapter 11.
12. Networking Background.
An Overview of IEEE802.3, TCP/IP. Physical Layer.
Link Layer. Network Layer. Transport Layer. Internet Protocol (IP) Addressing
and Subnet Mask. Subnet Mask.
13. Configuring and Using Networking.
Configuring Networking and LAN Adapters. Identify
LAN Cards in System. Use set_parms to Configure First LAN Interface. Manually
Configure Second LAN Interface. Commonly Used Networking Commands. Netstat.
Route. Ifconfig. Rpcinfo. Arp. Lanadmin. nslookup and nsquery. Ndd. Using Networking.
Internet Services ARPA (Communication among Systems w/ Different OS). Internet
Services Berkeley (Communication between UNIX Systems). Host Name Mapping. /etc/hosts.
/etc/hosts.equiv. /.rhosts. Set Up DNS Servers Using BIND 8.1.2 and 9.2 on HP-UX
11i. A Word on Slave (Secondary) Name Servers. A Word On Cache-Only Nameservers.
A Final Word on Name Server Setup. Network File System (NFS). Example NFS Configuration.
Manual Pages for Commands Used in Chapter 12.
14. Common Desktop Environment (CDE) and GNOME.
Introduction. Why a Graphical User Interface
(GUI)? CDE Basics. CDE on AIX and HP-UX. CDE on Solaris. Customizing CDE. Making
Changes Using Style Manager. Backdrop and Colors. Adding Objects to or Removing
Objects from the Front Panel. Changing the Front Panel in Other Ways. Modifying
Things in Slide-up Subpanels. Front Panel Animation. Adding Items to the Workspace
Menu. Creating Control Buttons, Actions, and File Types. Using Different Fonts.
Changing the Login Messages. Changing the Login Picture. CDE — Advanced
Topics. The X Window System. Motif. CDE. X, Motif, and CDE Configuration Files.
X Configuration Files. Motif Configuration Files. CDE Configuration Files. CDE
Configuration File Locations. How Configuration Files Play Together. Specifying
Appearance and Behavior. The Sequence of Events When CDE Starts. CDE and Performance.
Tactics for Better Performance. Font Paths. CDE and Virtual Partitions. Custom
Greeting for Different Virtual Partitions. Menu Picks for Virtual Partitions.
GNOME.
15. CIFS/9000 and Samba.
CIFS/9000 Overview. Installing CIFS/9000. Configuring
CIFS/9000. Map a Network Drive. Samba Overview. smb.conf Setup. User Setup.
Samba Startup. Mapping a Windows Drive to a Linux Directory. Mounting a Windows
Drive on a Linux System. Log Files. Additional Samba Topics. Samba Web Configuration
Tool (SWAT). Samba Utilities and Programs. Obtaining Samba. Section 2 —
HP-UX Partitions.
16. Virtual Partitions (vPars).
Introduction. About Virtual Partitions. Virtual
Partitions Background. Uses of Virtual Partitions. Preparing to Create Virtual
Partitions. Loading the Software Required for Virtual Partitions. Virtual Partitions
Command Summary. Steps to Create Virtual Partitions. 1) Load HP-UX 11i. 2) Load
the Virtual Partitions Application Software. 3) Gather the System Component
and Hardware Paths. 4) List the Components of the Virtual Partitions. 5) Virtual
Partition Kernel-Related Work. 6) Create the First Virtual Partition. 7) Boot
the First Virtual Partition. 8) Create the Second Virtual Partition. 9) Boot
the Second Virtual Partition. 10) Modify the Virtual Partition. Virtual Partition
Dump Files. Summary. vparmgr GUI. Manual Pages for Commands Used in Chapter
16.
17. nPartitions Overview.
Introduction to nPartitions. Cells and nPartitions.
Ways of Managing nPartitions. HP-UX nPartition Commands. Modifying and Creating
an nPartition. Partition Manager (parmgr). Management Processor nPartition Commands.
The Boot Process Boot Console Handler (BCH) Commands.
18. HP Process Resource Manager (PRM) PRM andWLMOverview.
PRM Software. Working with PRM. Manual (non-GUI)
Setup of PRM With Resource Caps. PRM Setup With xprm. PRM and Oracle Setup.
19. MC/ServiceGuard.
About MC/ServiceGuard. MC/ServiceGuard Background.
A Simple Example. Setup a Shared Volume Group. Create an MC/ServiceGuard Cluster.
Create a Highly Available Package. Section 3 — UNIX Background.
20. UNIX File System Introduction - File System Layout, file and ls Commands.
The Basis of UNIX. File Types. Text Files. Data
Files. Source Code Files. Executable Files. Shell Programs. Links. Device Files.
The file Command. The ls Command. Ls. ls -a. ls -l. ls -i. ls -p. ls -R. ls
Summary. File System Layout. Linux File System Layout.
21. Working with Files and Directories — Permissions, Commands, File
Name Expansion, andWild Cards.
Introduction. Permissions. Absolute and Relative
Path Names. File Name Expansion and Wild Cards. pwd and cd. Chmod. Cp. Mv. Mkdir.
Rm. Rmdir. Using Commands. Using the cd, pwd, ls, mkdir, and cp Commands. Using
the mv Command. Down and Dirty with the rm and rmdir Commands.
22. Viewing Files — Redirection, cat, more, pg, head, and tail Commands.
First Things First. Redirection. Viewing Files
with cat, more, pg, head, and tail.
23. UNIX Tools — split, wc, sort, cmp, diff, comm, dircmp, cut, paste,
join, and tr.
Not All Commands on All UNIX Variants. split.
wc. sort. cmp, diff, and comm. dircmp. cut. paste. tr.
24. Advanced UNIX Tools — Regular Expressions, sed, awk, and grep.
Three Commands. Regular Expression Words-of-Caution.
Expressions Are Strings and Wildcards. sed. awk. grep. Manual Pages for Commands
Used in Chapter 24.
25. find Command.
find Overview. Finding Files of a Specific Type.
Find Empty Files and Directories. Finding Files By Name, Size, and Both Name
and Size. Finding Files By Owner, Type, and Permissions. Finding Long Unaccessed
Files and Running Commands on Found Files. Find Summary. Manual Pages for Commands
Used in Chapter 25.
26. The vi Editor.
The vi Editor. Regular Expression Words-of-Caution.
Expressions Are Strings and Wildcards. Modes and Notations. Starting a vi Session.
Cursor Control Commands. Adding Text in vi. Deleting Text in vi. Changing Text
in vi. Search and Replace in vi. Copying Text in vi. Undo and Repeat in vi.
Save Text and Exit vi. Options in vi. Status in vi. Section Positioning and
Placing Marks in Text. Joining Lines in vi. Cursor Placement and Adjusting the
Screen. Shell Escape Commands. Macros and Abbreviations. Indenting Text. Shell
Filters. Pattern Matching.
27. Introduction to the KornShell, C Shell, and Bash.
Different Shells. Introduction to KornShell.
Startup Files. The History File, .sh_history. Recalling from the History List.
Re-executing Commands with r. Fetching Commands Using vi Directives. Editing
on the Command Line Using vi Directives. Aliases in KornShell. Command and Path
Completion. File Name Expansion. Redirection (I/O Redirection). Environment
Variables. Background Jobs and Job Control. umask and Permissions. Change File
Permissions with chmod. Introduction to the C Shell. Issuing Commands. The .cshrc
File. The .login File. Initialize History List in .cshrc. Command-Line History.
Re-Executing Commands from the History List. Aliases in .cshrc. Introduction
to Bash. Issuing Commands. Initializing the History List in .bashrc. Recalling
from the History List. Editing on the Command Line. Aliases in .bashrc. Command
and Path Completion.
28 Introduction to Shell Programming.
Shell Programming. Steps to Create Shell Programs.
ksh Programming. Shell Variables. Command Substitution. Reading User Input.
Arguments to Shell Programs. Testing and Branching. Making Decisions with the
case Statement. Looping. The while Loop. Shell Functions. awk in Shell Programs.
An HP-UX Logical Volume Manager Shell Program. C Shell Programming. Command
Substitution. Reading User Input. Testing and Branching. Looping. Decision Making
with switch. Debugging C Shell Programs. How Long Does It Take?
Appendix A. Select HP-UX OnlineManual Pages.
Manual Pages for Commands. awk. boot. crontab.
Find. grep. hpux. ifconfig. ignite. inittab. iostat. isl. netstat. pdc. ps.
sed. shutdown. “sw” command summaries. Top. Vmstat.
Appendix B. Virtual Partitions Online Manual Pages.
Man Pages. vparboot. vparcreate. vparmodify.
vparremove. vparreset. vparresources. vparstatus. vpartition.
Index.
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