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Transitioning to HP-UX for Experienced UNIX Administrators
The "HP-UX for Experienced UNIX Administrators" course is appropriate for experienced UNIX system administrators. Comparisons between HP-UX and the methods and utilities used with various distributions of UNIX will be highlighted during the course. Please note the accelerated pace of this course is only possible if students are already comfortable with UNIX system administration concepts and tasks of at least one version of UNIX.
 
Who Should Attend
UNIX Administrators who have completed a system administration course in another variant of UNIX (Linux, Tru64 UNIX, Solaris, AIX) who desire the skills to successfully manage a HP-UX system or network.
 
Prerequisites
A student beginning this course should possess a working knowledge of system administration or equivalent workplace experience with a current UNIX system.
 
Course Contents

1. Installation, Planning, Storage requirements

2. Software Installation

3. Disks under HP-UX

a. Partitions
b. LVM concepts
c. LVM and Veritas
d. File system choices

4. Booting and Shutting down

a. Run levels
b. Single user mode
c. Startup Scripts
d. Rebooting

5. Post installation tasks

6. X-Windows

7. User Administration

8. Additional software

a. Licensing
b. Installing
c. Removing
d. swinstall, swremove, swconfig

9. Management Tools

a. GUI vs. CLI
b. SAM

10. Hardware Management

a. hwinfo
b. ioscan

11. Kernel Management

a. Kernel review
b. HP-UX 11 Kernel
c. Loadable Modules
d. Tunable parameters

12. Filesystems

a. Extent based vs. journaled
b. Logical Volumes / Logical Storage
c. HP LVM
d. VxFS
e. VxVM

13. Networking

a. Configuration
b. DNS/bind
c. Security

14. Miscellaneous and Real World Issues

15. Shortcuts/Tips/Tricks
 

Course Information

Title: Transitioning to HP-UX for Experienced UNIX Administrators
  Code: HP350
  Days: 3
 
 

On-Demand Scheduling
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