HP-UX Training Overview

This course will teach the commands and methods needed to setup and manage an HP-UX / Unix system. The course will also use a problem solving approach in the lab exercises to teach system administrators advanced topics, for long-term mangement of the system.

Specifically tailored for systems: HP-UX Versions 11i v1 and v2

HP-UX Training Prerequisites

It is assumed that the participant has successfully completed the Fundamentals of HP-UX course, or has equivalent system time as a user.

HP-UX Training Course duration

This course normally requires five (5) days, approximately 60% lecture, and 40% lab time.

HP-UX Training Course Objectives

On completion of this course, a system manager should be able to install, update, and boot the HP-UX operating system; set up user accounts and directories; prepare queues for use; perform backups for integrity and performance reasons; monitor the system for performance and do basic setup of network software and capabilities

HP-UX Training Course outline

Advanced System Concepts for System Administrators

    Process concepts
    Shell command usage and review
    Optimizing system help information
    System administrator functions
    Using the root account

System Installation and Updating

    Installation types and methods
    Installing the HP-UX operating system
    Rebuilding/reconfiguring the HP-UX kernel

Startup and Shutdown

    Default bootstrap
    Boot to single-user mode
    Startup methods and procedures
    Shutdown procedures

Managing of System Users

    UID and GID concepts
    Creation of a user account
    Controlling access by groups
    Login sequence
    Setting up user environment files
    Using and maintaining user login files
    Managing Printer Queues
    Creation of an execution print queue
    Commands to manipulate queues
    Commands to manipulate jobs in queues

Managing Disk and Tape Volumes

    Commands to manipulate disks/filesystems
    Using LVM and VxFs on HP-UX
    Commands to manipulate backup volumes:
       tar utility
       cpio utility
       dump and restore utilities
       fbackup and frestore utilities

Customizing HP-UX

    Startup of the system
    login procedures
    layout and procedures in the CDE

Monitoring System Activity

    Informational Utilities
    The vmstat utility
    The iostat utility
    The sar utility
    The netstat utility

Maintaining System Integrity

    Login and user accounting
    Command/process level accounting
    Using cron tables

Network Setup and Configuration

    TCP/IP address selection
    Host names and related files
    Configuring network devices
    Network testing with ping
    Network utilities: telnet,rlogin, rcp, remsh