HP-UX Online Training

Course Duration : 50 to 60 Hrs

HP-UX Course Content

Module 1 — Introduction to HP-UX Administration

• The Role of the System Administrator
• Hardware Responsibilities
• Software Responsibilities

Module 2 — SERVERS

• Integrity rx2660,3600,6600,7640,7620,8640,superdomes
• HP9000 rp3440,4440,7420,7440,8420,8440,superdomes
• Blade servers(c7000,c3000,bl860c,bl870c)

Module 3 — Creating and Managing User Accounts

• Users and Groups—Access to System and Data
• What Defines a User Account?
• The /etc/passwd File
• The /etc/group File
• Creating User Accounts with SAM
• Creating User Templates in SAM
• Deactivating and Removing Users with SAM
• Managing Group Membership with SAM
• Managing User Accounts from the Command Line
• Changing User Passwords from the Command Line
• Customizing User Accounts
• Some Sample Customizations
• The /etc/skel Directory

Module 4–Guided Tour of the HP-UX File Hierarchy

• Introducing the File System Paradigm
• The File System Layout
• Application Directories
• Commands to Help You Navigate
• HP-UX File System Hierarchy                                    

Module 5— Connecting Peripherals

• The HP 9000 Product Family
• I/O Architecture Terminology
• I/O Expansion
• Device Adapters
• Types of SCSI
• Viewing the Configuration with ioscan

Module 6 — Configuring Device Files

• What Is a Device File?
• Listing Device Files with ll
• Listing Device Files with ioscan
• Listing Device Files with lssf
• The Layout of /dev
• Device File Naming Convention
• Disk Device File Names
• How Device Files are Created
• Auto configuration
• Creating Device Files with SAM
• Creating a Device File with mksf
• Creating Device Files with insf
• Device Files

Module 7 — Configuring Disk Devices

• Disk Partitioning
• Whole Disk Partitioning
• LVM Disk Partitioning
• LVM Device Files
• LVM Extents
• Creating Physical Volumes
• Creating Volume Groups
• Creating Logical Volumes
• LAB: Logical Volume Manager

Module 8 — File System Concepts

• What Is a File System?
• File System Types
• What’s in a File System?
• Accessing a File System
• HP-UX Hard Links
• HP-UX Symbolic Links

Module 9 — File System Creation

• Overview of File System Creation
• Creating new file system
• Extending file system offline
• Extending file system online
• file system full issues
• file system corrupt issues
• Hard disk drive failures troubleshooting issues
• difference between RAID,data,OS disks

Module 10 — File System Repair

• File System Maintenance
• File System Updates
• Introducing fsck
• Running fsck
• Checking lost+found

Module 11 — File System Management

• Monitoring Disk Usage
• Routine Management
• Extending a Volume Group
• Extending a Logical Volume
• Extending a File System

Module 12 — System Backup

• Understanding types of backups
• Understanding various file backups using  tar, cpio, dd
• Creation of snap shot for backups
• Understanding backup levels and backup strategies.
• Understanding file system backups using fbackup, frecover.
• Performing full / incremental / cumulative backups
• Performing local / remote backup restore

Module13–SCHEDULE JOBS

• At jobs
• Cron jobs

Module 14 — Managing Swap Space

• System Memory
• What Is Swap Space?
• Types of Swap Space
• Enabling Swap from the Command Line
• Enabling Swap via /etc/fstab
• Monitoring Swap Space Usage
• Guidelines for Selecting Device Swap Areas
• Guidelines for Selecting File System Swap Areas

Module 15 — Shutdown and Reboot

• HP-UX Operation States
• Changing State with Shutdown and Reboot
• System Boot Introduction
• System Boot Players
• System Boot Process Overview
• Autoboot versus Manual Boot
• Initiating the Boot Sequence
• Interacting with the PDC/BootRom
• Interacting with the ISL and EFI
• What Happens after the Kernel Is Loaded?
• Run Levels
• Changing Run Levels with init
• Configuring init via /etc/inittab

Module 16 — Reconfiguring the Kernel

• Why Reconfigure the Kernel?
• Static Kernel Modules
• Dynamic Kernel Modules
• Using SAM for Kernel Configuration
• Moving the New Kernel into Place
• What If the New Kernel Won’t Boot?
• Manually Tuning an HP-UX 10.x Kernel
• Some Configurable Parameters

Module 17 — Managing Software with SD-UX

• Introducing SD-UX
• SD-UX Software Structure
• SD-UX Software Depots
• SD-UX IPD
• SD-UX Daemon/Agents
• swinstall Main Menu
• Select Software to Install
• Starting the Update
• Installing Protected Software
• Listing Software
• Removing Software

Module 18 — Patch Management (SD-UX)

• Why Install Patches?
• Patch Naming Conventions
• Obtaining Patches
• Retrieving Patches from the Web Patch Database
• Retrieving Patches from Tape or CD
• Installing Patches with swinstall
• Listing Patches
• Removing Patches
• Installing patch bundles
• Installing patch bundles from different server
• Different patch types

Module 19 — Connecting to a Network

• Configuring LAN Interface Adapters
• Configuring LAN Adapters
• Setting an IP Address and Subnet Mask
• Setting a Default Route
• Using SAM to Configure a LAN Adapter
• Setting a System Hostname
• Resolving Hostnames to IP Addresses
• Configuring /etc/hosts
• Configuring ip address permanently and temporarily
• Building new server.

Module20–FTP SERVER

• Configuring ftp server with real and anonymous users
• Understanding security files

Module21– Configuring and Managing the Network File System

• NFS Concepts
• Configuring an NFS Server
• Configuring an NFS Client
• NFS Daemons
• Troubleshooting

Module22—IGNITE-UX

• Ignite Server configuration
• Ignite backup in tape
• Ignite backup network
• Recovering server from ignite tape backup PARISC and IA64
• Recovering server from Ignite network PARISC and IA64
• Recovering VPAR from ignite tape
• Recovering server from different subnet using dbprofile

Module23—NPAR

• Introduction to cell based servers
• Introduction to superdomes and midrange servers
• Base cell, Core cell
• Creating first npar
• OS installation in NPAR through DVD
• Configuring NPARS and troubleshooting
• Dynamic NPAR
• OS installation through ignite server

Module24—SERVICE GUARD CLUSTER

• Introduction to cluster
• Cluster setup understanding
• Cluster prerequisites
• Configuring two node cluster with version 11.20
• Lock disk
• Cluster package moving and testing failover
• Cluster file system extension online and offline
• Creating legacy and modular packages
• Service Guard NFS toolkit
• Adding a disk to the Cluster VG
• Configuring packages when the cluster up and running
• Troubleshooting cluster

Module25—VPAR

• Introduction to VPAR
• Introduction to latest version A.5.00(HP-UX 11iv3)
• Older versions of A.3.00 and A.400 comparison
• VPAR configuration
• Adding cpu and memory to VPAR
• VPAR troubleshooting
• VPAR boot options
• Vpardb
• Vpmon
• Recovering VPAR from ignite tape

Module26—Performance

• Performance issues
• Cpu
• Memory
• Disk
• Io issues

Module27—SAM and SMH

• Difference between SAM and SMH
• LVM  using SMH
• Hardware issues identification using SMH
• Kernel parameter configuration
• User and group administration

Module28—IVM

• Creating Integrity Virtual machines
• Using hpvmmodify
• Troubleshooting HPVM