Hp-Ux 11I Systems Administration Handbook and Toolkit - Softcover

Poniatowski, Marty

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0131018833 ISBN 13: 9780131018839

Publisher: Prentice Hall, 2003

Synopsis

HP-UX 11i System Administration Handbook and Toolkit, second edition, is your singlesource for everything HP-UX administrators need to know! Now updated to cover new HP-UX 11i andpartitioning enhancements, plus every essential UNIX command. Covers installation, boot, kernel,devices, users, groups, SAM, Veritas VM, LVM, optimization, networking, GNOME, auditing, UNIXfile types and commands, vi, and shell programming. Includes extensive new disk partitioningcoverage: vPars, PRM, nPartitions, and MC/ServiceGuard. CD-ROM: new HP-UX performance managementtrialware, sysadmin "Cheat Sheets," and more.

About this title

About the Author

MARTY PONIATOWSKI has been working with UNIX since 1981. He has been a Solutions Architect withHewlett-Packard in the New York area for 15 years and has worked with HP-UX customers invirtually every industry. He has written 12 books on UNIX-related topics, all published byPrentice Hall PTR. He holds M.S. degrees in both Computer Science and Management and a B.S. inElectrical Engineering.

From the Back Cover

Your complete single source for HP-UX system administration!

Now, there's a single source for all the information HP-UX administrators needto succeed! Marty Poniatowski has updated the world's #1 HP-UX systemadministration guide to cover all the latest HP-UX 11i enhancements, plus all theUNIX commands HP-UX sysadmins need. This edition also contains comprehensive newcoverage of the latest options and tools for HP-UX partitioning!

HP-UX in depth...

• System boot: PDC, ISL, hpux, GSP, Secure Web Console, and Virtual Partition Booting
• Installing HP-UX, Software Distributor, and Operating Environments
• HP-UX kernel—including kernel update procedure
• Device files
• Users/groups, Ignite-UX backup/restore, and startup/shutdown scripts
• System Administration Manager (SAM)
• Logical Volume Manager with extensive examples—plus Veritas Volume Manager
• Performance management: iostat, vmstat, netstat, top, sar, and more
• Networking: Ethernet, TCP/IP, DNS, NFS, CIFS/9000, Samba, and more
• CDE and GNOME

UNIX commands and shells...

• File Types
• File Commands: cd, cp, file, ls, mv, mkdir, pwd, rm, rmdir, and more
• File Viewing: cat, head, tail, and more
• Advanced Commands: grep, sed, awk, find, cut, paste, split, sort, cmp, diff, comm, and more
• Bash, Korn, and C shells and shell programming
• Manual pages for many commonly used commands are included in the appendices

New HP-UX partitioning coverage...

• vPars: preparation, creation, configuration, and commands
• nPartitions: creation, modification, cells, and commands
• HP Process Resource Manager (PRM)
• MC/ServiceGuard: background and examples

Tear-out card included

Superdome, rp8400, and rp7410 commands

CD-ROM included

Includes trial versions of Hewlett-Packard's latest HP-UXperformance tools, plus "Cheat Sheets" for key sysadmintasks.

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Preface

This update of HP-UX 11i System Administration Handbook andToolkit includes a lot of new HP-UX 11i information. There are manynew functions in 11i that have been introduced since the previous revisionof this book was introduced such as: Virtual Partitions (vPars), hardpartitions (nPartitions), the GNOME interface running on HP-UX, theWeb-based kcweb kernel tuning tool, and many other advancements that arecovered in this revision. At the same time, however, there are even morenew 11i functions and architecture updates being introduced in the nearfuture. Before this book is even on the shelf in bookstores I am preparingthe next revision. HP-UX 11i and the hardware are advancing very quicklyso there are a lot of important improvements for me to document that allHP-UX system administrators want to know about.

The HP-UX 11iSystem Administration Handbook and Toolkit is composed of following threesections:

* Section 1 - HP-UX System Administration
* Section 2 - HP-UX Partitions
* Section 3 - Introduction to UNIX and HP-UX

The first section covers almost every aspect of HP-UX systemadministration for your day-to-day work. The Partitions section coverssome of the latest and most important topics related to HP-UX partitions.Since partitions, either virtual, hard, or both, are available on everynew HP-UX system I treat these important topics in a separate section. Ihave included Section 3 due to the many requests I have received toprovide UNIX background for those readers with limited exposure to UNIX.There are new HP-UX system administrators and users every day who can usethis introduction.

You'll be seeing additional updates to this book on a regular basis. Thereare many enhancements taking place such as HP systems based on the IntelItanium architecture. I've just started to include such information inthis book. Chapter 1, for instance, introduces the Extensible FirmwareInterface (EFI). EFI is used on Itanium-based systems. It sits between thefirmware for the IPF system and the operating system loader. There will bemany more enhancements to come, so I'll be busy updating.

I hope you enjoy reading the book and learning the material as much as Idid writing it.

Marty Poniatowski

marty.poniatowski@hp.com

Edition details

• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0131018833
• ISBN 13: 9780131018839
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 1390