Topic 1 — Introduction to HP-UX Admin

 The Role of System Administrator

 Hardware/ Software _Responsibilities
Topic 2 — SERVERS

 Integrity of rx2660,3600,6600,7640,7620,8640,superdomes
 HP9000 of rp3440,4440,7420,7440,8420,8440,superdomes
 Blade _servers(c7000,c3000,bl860c,bl870c)
Topic 3 — Creating & Managing User Accounts

 Users and Groups—Access to System & Data

 What Defines an User Account?
 The /etc/password File
 The /etc/group_ File
 Creating of User Accounts with SAM
 Creating of User Templates in SAM
 Deactivating & Removing Users with SAM
 Managing The Group Membership with SAM
 Managing The User Accounts from the Command Line
 Changing Of User Passwords from the Command Line
 Customizing of User Accounts
 Some Sample Of Customizations
Topic 4--Guided Tour of HP-UX File Hierarchy

 Introduction to File System Paradigm

 File System Layout
 The Application Directories
 Commands to Help You in Navigation
 The HP-UX File System Hierarchy
Topic 5— Connecting Of Peripherals

 HP 9000 Product Family

 The I/O Architecture Terminology
 The I/O Expansion
 Device _Adapters
 Different Types of SCSI
 Viewing the Configuration with the ioscan
Topic 6 — Configuring Of Device Files

 What Is an Device File?

 Listing of Device Files with ll
 Listing of Device Files with ioscan
 Listing of Device Files with lssf
  Layout of /dev
 The Device File Naming Convention
 The Disk Device File Names
 How Device Files are Created?
 Auto_ configuration
 Creating an Device Files with SAM
 Creating an Device File with mksf
 Creating the Device Files with insf
 The Device Files
Topic 7 — Configuring Of Disk Devices

 Disk Partitioning
 The Whole Disk Partitioning
 LVM _Disk Partitioning
 LVM _Device Files
 LVM _Extents
 Creating ofPhysical Volumes
 Creating of Volume Groups
 Creating an Logical Volumes
Topic 8 —The File System Concepts

 What Is an File System?

 Types Of File System
 What’s in an File System?
 Accessing of File System
 HP-UX Hard_Links
 The HP-UX Symbolic Links
Topic 9 — Creation Of File System

 Overview of the File System Creation

 Creating the new file system
 Extending the file system offline
 Extending the file system online
 The file system full issues
 The file system corrupt issues
 Hard disk drive failures troubleshooting issues
 difference b/w RAID,data,OS disks
Topic 10 — repair Of File System

 Maintance Of File System

 File System Updates
 Introduction to fsck
 Running of fsck
 Checking of lost+found
Topic 11 — File System _Management

 Monitoring the Disk Usage

 Routine_ Management
 Extending an Volume Group
 Extending an Logical Volume
 Extending an File System
Topic 12 — System_Backup

 Types of backups
 various file backups using tar, cpio, dd
 Creation a snap shot for backups
 backup levels & backup strategies.
 file system backups using the fbackup, frecover.
 Performing of local / remote backup restore

Topic 14 — Managing Swap/ Space

 System _Memory
 What Is an Swap Space?
 Different Types of Swap Space
 Enabling of Swap from the Command Line
 Enabling the Swap via /etc/fstab
 Monitoring of Swap Space Usage
 The Guidelines for Selecting Device Swap Areas
 Guidelines for Selecting the File System Swap Areas

Topic 15 — Shutdown & Reboot

 HP-UX Operation_ States

 Changing State with Shutdown & Reboot
 Introduction to System Boot
 System Boot _Players
 System Boot Process
 Autoboot vs Manual Boot
 Initiating Boot Sequence
 Interacting with t PDC/BootRom
 Interacting with ISL and EFI
 What Happens after the Kernel Is Loaded?
 Run_ Levels
 Changing Run Levels with_ init
 Configuring of init via /etc/inittab
Topic 16 — Reconfiguring of the Kernel

 Why Reconfigure of the Kernel?

 Static Kernel
 Dynamic Kernel
 Using of SAM for Kernel Configuration
 Moving New Kernel into Place
 What If the New Kernel Won’t Boot?
 Manually Tuning of HP-UX 10.x Kernel
 Some Configurable Parameters
Topic 17 — Managing The Software using SD-UX

 Introducing SD-UX
 SD-UX Software_ Structure
 SD-UX Software Depots
 SD-UX Daemon & Agents
 swinstall Main_ Menu
 Selected Software to Install
 Starting Update
 Installing of Protected Software
 Listing of Software
 Removing of Software
Topic 18 — Patch _Management (SD-UX)

 Why Install Patches?

 Patch Naming_Conventions
 Obtaining of Patches
 Retrieving the Patches from the Web Patch Database
 Retrieving Patches from Tape
 Installing the Patches with swinstall
 Listing of Patches
 Removing of Patches
 Installing the patch bundles
 Installing the patch bundles from different server
 Various patch types
Topic 19 — Connecting to an Network

 Configuring the LAN Interface Adapters

 Configuring the LAN Adapters
 Setting IP Address and Subnet Mask
 Setting Default Route
 Using of SAM to Configure a LAN Adapter
 Setting an System Hostname
  Resolving Hostnames to the IP Addresses
 Configuring ip address permanently & temporarily
 Building of new server.
Topic21-- Configuring & Managing the Network File System

 NFS_ Concepts
 Configuring NFS Server
 Configuring NFS Client
 NFS_ Daemons
 Troubleshooting
Topic22—IGNITE-UX

 Ignite Server_ configuration

 Ignite backup in tape
 Ignite thebackup network
 Recovering server from ignite tape backup PARISC & IA64
 Recovering server from Ignite network PARISC & IA64
 Recovering VPAR from the ignite tape
 Recovering server from various subnet using dbprofile
Topic23—NPAR

 cell based servers

 Superdomes & midrange servers
 Base cell 7 Core cell
 Creating first npar
 OS installation in the NPAR through DVD
 Configuring NPARS & troubleshooting
 The Dynamic NPAR
 OS installation through the ignite server
Topic24—SERVICE GUARD_CLUSTER

 cluster
 Cluster setup
 Cluster_ prerequisites
 Configuring two node cluster with version 11.20
 Lock _disk
 Cluster package moving & testing failover
 Cluster file system extension online & offline
 Creating legacy & modular packages
 Service Guard of NFS toolkit
 Adding an disk to the Cluster VG
 Configuring packages when the cluster up & running
 Troubleshooting of cluster
Topic25—VPAR

 VPAR
 latest version A.5.00(HP-UX 11iv3)
 Older versions of A.3.00 & A.400 comparison
 VPAR _configuration
 Adding cpu &memory to VPAR
 VPAR_ troubleshooting
 VPAR _boot options
 Vpardb
 Vpmon
 Recovering VPAR from ignite tape
Topic26—Performance

 Performance_ issues
 Cpu
 Memory
 Disk
 Io issues
Topic27—SAM &SMH

 Difference between SAM & SMH

 The LVM using SMH
 Hardware issues identification using the SMH
 Kernel parameter_configuration

 User & group administration

Topic28—IVM

 Creating an Integrity Virtual machines

 Using_ hpvmmodify
 Troubleshooting of HPVM