HP-UX System and Network Administration I. Student Workbook

570 Pages·1999·8.078 MB·English

HP Computer Systems
Training Course
HP-UX System and Network
Administration I
Student Workbook
Version A.01
H3064S Student
Printed in USA 2/99
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Contents
Overview
Course Description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Student Performance Objectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Student Profile and Prerequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Module 1 — Introduction to HP-UX Administration
Objectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-1
1-1. SLIDE: The Role of the System Administrator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-2
1-2. SLIDE: Hardware Responsibilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3
1-3. SLIDE: Software Responsibilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-4
1-4. SLIDE: Responsibilities to the Users . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-6
1-5. SLIDE: The System Administrator’s Tool Kit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-8
1-6. REVIEW: Check Your Understanding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-11
Module 2 — Overview of SAM
Objectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-1
2-1. SLIDE: Why Use SAM? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-2
2-2. SLIDE: Using the SAM GUI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-4
2-3. SLIDE: Using the SAM Terminal Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-6
2-4. LAB: SAM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-8
Module 3 — Creating and Managing User Accounts
Objectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-1
3-1. SLIDE: Users and Groups—Access to System and Data . . . . . . . . . . . 3-2
3-2. SLIDE: What Defines a User Account? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-4
3-3. SLIDE: The /etc/passwd File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-5
3-4. SLIDE: The /etc/group File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-8
3-5. SLIDE: Creating User Accounts with SAM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-10
3-6. SLIDE: Creating User Templates in SAM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-13
3-7. SLIDE: Deactivating and Removing Users with SAM . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-15
3-8. SLIDE: Managing Group Membership with SAM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-18
3-9. SLIDE: Managing User Accounts from the Command Line . . . . . . . . . . 3-19
3-10. SLIDE: Changing User Passwords from the Command Line . . . . . . . . . 3-21
3-11. REVIEW: Check Your Understanding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-23
3-12. LAB: Hands-On Adding Users . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-24
Module 4 — Customizing User Accounts
Objectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-1
4-1. SLIDE: Why Customize a User Account? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-2
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4-2. SLIDE: Some Sample Customizations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-4
4-3. SLIDE: What Happens When a User Logs In? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-7
4-4. SLIDE: What Happens at CDE Login? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-10
4-5. SLIDE: The /etc/skel Directory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-12
4-6. LAB: Customizing User Accounts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-13
Module 5 — Guided Tour of the HP-UX File Hierarchy
Objectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-1
5-1. SLIDE: Introducing the File System Paradigm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-2
5-2. SLIDE: The File System Layout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-4
5-3. SLIDE: Application Directories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-8
5-4. SLIDE: Commands to Help You Navigate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-9
5-5. LAB: HP-UX File System Hierarchy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-11
Module 6 — Connecting Peripherals
Objectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-1
6-1. SLIDE: The HP 9000 Product Family . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-2
6-2. SLIDE: I/O Architecture Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-4
6-3. SLIDE: I/O Expansion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-6
6-4. SLIDE: Device Adapters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-8
6-5. SLIDE: Types of SCSI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-9
6-6. SLIDE: SCSI Device Power Up Guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-11
6-7. SLIDE: Viewing the Configuration with ioscan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-12
6-8. LAB: Viewing the Configuration with ioscan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-16
Module 7 — Configuring Device Files
Objectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-1
7-1. SLIDE: What Is a Device File? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-2
7-2. SLIDE: Listing Device Files with ll . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-4
7-3. SLIDE: Listing Device Files with ioscan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-6
7-4. SLIDE: Listing Device Files with lssf . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-7
7-5. SLIDE: The Layout of /dev . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-9
7-6. SLIDE: Device File Naming Convention . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-10
7-7. SLIDE: Disk Device File Names . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-13
7-8. SLIDE: Tape Device File Names . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-15
7-9. SLIDE: Terminal and Modem Device File Names . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-18
7-10. SLIDE: How Device Files are Created . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-20
7-11. SLIDE: Autoconfiguration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-21
7-12. SLIDE: Creating Device Files with SAM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-23
7-13. TEXT PAGE: Creating a Device File with mksf . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-24
7-14. TEXT PAGE: Creating Device Files with insf . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-25
7-15. LAB: Device Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-26
7-16. REVIEW: Check Your Understanding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-29
Module 8 — Configuring Disk Devices
Objectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-1
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8-1. SLIDE: Disk Partitioning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-2
8-2. SLIDE: Whole Disk Partitioning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-4
8-3. SLIDE: LVM Disk Partitioning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-6
8-4. SLIDE: LVM Device Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-8
8-5. SLIDE: LVM Extents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-11
8-6. SLIDE: Creating Physical Volumes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-13
8-7. SLIDE: Creating Volume Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-15
8-8. SLIDE: Creating Logical Volumes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-19
8-9. SLIDE: What’s Next? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-23
8-10. LAB: Logical Volume Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-24
8-11. REVIEW: Check Your Understanding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-29
Module 9 — File System Concepts
Objectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-1
9-1. SLIDE: What Is a File System? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-2
9-2. SLIDE: File System Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-5
9-3. SLIDE: What’s in a File System? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-7
9-4. SLIDE: Accessing a File System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-9
9-5. SLIDE: HP-UX Hard Links . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-11
9-6. SLIDE: HP-UX Symbolic Links . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-13
9-7. SLIDE: HFS Structural Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-15
9-8. CHALK TALK: HFS File System Updates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-17
9-9. SLIDE: HFS Blocks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-19
9-10. SLIDE: HFS Fragments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-21
9-11. SLIDE: HFS Implications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-23
9-12. SLIDE: JFS Structural Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-25
9-13. CHALK TALK: JFS File System Updates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-27
9-14. SLIDE: JFS Blocks and Extents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-30
9-15. SLIDE: JFS Implications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-31
9-16. REVIEW: Check Your Understanding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-33
Module 10 — File System Creation
Objectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-1
10-1. SLIDE: Overview of File System Creation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-2
10-2. SLIDE: Creating a New File System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-4
10-3. SLIDE: The newfs Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-5
10-4. SLIDE: Mounting the New File System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-9
10-5. SLIDE: The umount Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-12
10-6. SLIDE: Automatically Mounting File Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-14
10-7. SLIDE: CD-ROM File Systems (CDFS) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-16
10-8. LAB: Creating File Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-18
Module 11 — File System Repair
Objectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-1
11-1. SLIDE: File System Maintenance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-2
11-2. SLIDE: File System Updates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-3
11-3. SLIDE: Flushing Buffer Cache . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-5
11-4. SLIDE: Introducing fsck . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-7
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11-5. SLIDE: Running fsck . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-8
11-6. SLIDE: Checking lost+found . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-12
11-7. LAB: fsck . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-14
Module 12 — File System Management
Objectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12-1
12-1. SLIDE: Monitoring Disk Usage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12-2
12-2. SLIDE: Routine Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12-4
12-3. SLIDE: Extending a Volume Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12-7
12-4. SLIDE: Extending a Logical Volume . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12-10
12-5. SLIDE: Extending a File System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12-12
12-6. TEXT PAGE: Summary of LVM Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12-14
12-7. LAB: File System Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12-16
12-8. REVIEW: Check Your Understanding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12-19
Module 13 — System Backup
Objectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13-1
13-1. SLIDE: Why Back Up? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13-2
13-2. SLIDE: What Do You Back Up? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13-4
13-3. SLIDE: How Often Do You Back Up? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13-6
13-4. TEXT PAGE: System Backup Worksheet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13-9
13-5. SLIDE: How do you Perform the Backup? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13-10
13-6. SLIDE: Using fbackup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13-14
13-7. SLIDE: Using frecover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13-18
13-8. SLIDE: Network Backup and Recovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13-21
13-9. SLIDE: Being Prepared with make_recovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13-23
13-10. SLIDE: Creating a Recovery Tape . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13-25
13-11. SLIDE: Updating the Recovery Tape . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13-27
13-12. TEXT PAGE: System Recovery Checklist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13-29
13-13. LAB: Backup and Recovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13-30
Module 14 — Scheduling cron Jobs
Objectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14-1
14-1. SLIDE: The cron Daemon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14-2
14-2. SLIDE: cronfile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14-4
14-3. SLIDE: Managing cronfile with crontab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14-6
14-4. SLIDE: What Happens When a Job is Scheduled? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14-8
14-5. LAB: cron . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14-10
Module 15 — Managing Swap Space
Objectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15-1
15-1. SLIDE: System Memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15-2
15-2. SLIDE: What Is Swap Space? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15-4
15-3. SLIDE: Types of Swap Space . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15-7
15-4. SLIDE: Enabling Swap from the Command Line . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15-9
15-5. SLIDE: Enabling Swap via /etc/fstab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15-12
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15-6. SLIDE: Monitoring Swap Space Usage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15-14
15-7. SLIDE: Guidelines for Selecting Device Swap Areas . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15-17
15-8. SLIDE: Guidelines for Selecting File System Swap Areas . . . . . . . . . . . 15-19
15-9. LAB: Swap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15-21
Module 16 — Printer Management
Objectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16-1
16-1. SLIDE: Overview of the Spooling System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16-2
16-2. SLIDE: Types of Printers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16-4
16-3. SLIDE: Adding Local Printers Using SAM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16-6
16-4. SLIDE: Adding a Remote Printer Using SAM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16-9
16-5. SLIDE: Adding a Network-based Printer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16-12
16-6. TEXT PAGE: Configuring a Network Printer Using JetAdmin . . . . . . . . 16-14
16-7. SLIDE: Directory Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16-18
16-8. SLIDE: What Happens when a File Is Submitted with lp . . . . . . . . . . 16-20
16-9. SLIDE: Managing Print Queues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16-22
16-10. SLIDE: Priorities and Fences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16-25
16-11. SLIDE: Troubleshooting the Spooler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16-27
16-12. LAB: Hands-On Adding Printers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16-30
16-13. REVIEW: Check Your Understanding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16-32
Module 17 — Shutdown and Reboot
Objectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17-1
17-1. SLIDE: HP-UX Operation States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17-2
17-2. SLIDE: Changing State with Shutdown and Reboot . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17-3
17-3. SLIDE: System Boot Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17-6
17-4. SLIDE: System Boot Players . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17-7
17-5. SLIDE: System Boot Process Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17-9
17-6. SLIDE: Autoboot versus Manual Boot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17-12
17-7. SLIDE: Initiating the Boot Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17-13
17-8. SLIDE: Interacting with the PDC/BootRom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17-14
17-9. SLIDE: Interacting with the ISL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17-17
17-10. SLIDE: What Happens after the Kernel Is Loaded? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17-19
17-11. SLIDE: Run Levels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17-21
17-12. SLIDE: Changing Run Levels with init . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17-23
17-13. SLIDE: Configuring init via /etc/inittab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17-24
17-14. LAB: Shutting Down and Rebooting Your System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17-26
Module 18 — Reconfiguring the Kernel
Objectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18-1
18-1. SLIDE: Why Reconfigure the Kernel? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18-2
18-2. SLIDE: Static Kernel Modules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18-4
18-3. SLIDE: Dynamic Kernel Modules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18-5
18-4. SLIDE: Using SAM for Kernel Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18-6
18-5. SLIDE: Moving the New Kernel into Place . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18-8
18-6. SLIDE: What If the New Kernel Won’t Boot? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18-10
18-7. TEXT PAGE: Manually Tuning an HP-UX 10.x Kernel . . . . . . . . . . . . 18-12
18-8. TEXT PAGE: Some Configurable Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18-14
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18-9. LAB: Kernel Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18-19
Module 19 — Managing Software with SD-UX
Objectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-1
19-1. SLIDE: Introducing SD-UX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-2
19-2. SLIDE: SD-UX Software Structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-4
19-3. SLIDE: SD-UX Software Depots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-6
19-4. SLIDE: SD-UX IPD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-8
19-5. SLIDE: SD-UX Daemon/Agents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-9
19-6. SLIDE: swinstall Main Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-11
19-7. SLIDE: Select Software to Install . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-13
19-8. SLIDE: Starting the Update . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-15
19-9. SLIDE: Installing Protected Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-17
19-10. SLIDE: Listing Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-19
19-11. SLIDE: Removing Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-21
19-12. SLIDE: SD-UX Command Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-23
19-13. LAB: Hands-On, Using the Software Distributor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-24
Module 20 — Patch Management (SD-UX)
Objectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20-1
20-1. SLIDE: Why Install Patches? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20-2
20-2. SLIDE: Patch Naming Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20-4
20-3. SLIDE: Obtaining Patches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20-5
20-4. SLIDE: Retrieving Patches from the Web Patch Database . . . . . . . . . . 20-8
20-5. SLIDE: Retrieving Patches from Tape or CD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20-13
20-6. SLIDE: Installing Patches with swinstall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20-14
20-7. SLIDE: Listing Patches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20-17
20-8. SLIDE: Removing Patches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20-19
20-9. LAB: Patch Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20-21
Module 21 — Connecting to a Network
Objectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21-1
21-1. SLIDE: Setting an IP Address and Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21-2
21-2. SLIDE: Setting a Default Route . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21-4
21-3. SLIDE: Setting a System Hostname . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21-6
21-4. SLIDE: Resolving Hostnames to IP Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21-8
21-5. SLIDE: Configuring /etc/hosts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21-9
21-6. SLIDE: Configuring a DNS Client . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21-11
21-7. SLIDE: Choosing a Look-Up Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21-13
21-8. SLIDE: Troubleshooting Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21-16
21-9. LAB: Connecting to the Network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21-18
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Overview
Course Description
The 5-day HP-UX System and Network Administration I course is the first of two courses that
prepares the student to be a successful system and network administrator of an HP 9000
workstation or server system.
Student Performance Objectives
Module 1 — Introduction to HP-UX Administration
(cid:127) Identify responsibilities of a system administrator.
(cid:127) Identify three sources of information for system administrators.
Module 2 — Overview of SAM
(cid:127) List two advantages and limitations of SAM.
(cid:127) Start SAM in either graphical or terminal mode.
(cid:127) Successfully navigate between menus in SAM.
(cid:127) Use SAM to explore the system’s current configuration and resources.
(cid:127) View and manipulate SAM object lists and dialog boxes.
(cid:127) View the SAM log file.
(cid:127) Use the restricted SAM builder to allow non-root users access to SAM.
Module 3 —Creating and Managing User Accounts
(cid:127) List the minimum requirements for a user account.
(cid:127) Identify each field in the /etc/passwd file.
(cid:127) Identify each field in the /etc/group file
(cid:127) Create, modify, and delete a user account from SAM or the command line.
(cid:127) Deactivate and reactivate a user account from SAM or the command line.
Module 4 — Customizing User Accounts
(cid:127) List configuration files read during the login process.
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(cid:127) Change the user’s default path.
(cid:127) Change the user’s default terminal type.
(cid:127) Change the user’s prompt string.
(cid:127) Change the user’s command line editor.
(cid:127) Change the user’s default printer.
(cid:127) Manage default configuration files in /etc/skel.
Module 5 — Guided Tour of the HP-UX File Hierarchy
(cid:127) Describe the reasons for separating dynamic and static file systems.
(cid:127) Describe the key contents of /sbin, /usr, /stand, /etc, /dev, /var.
(cid:127) Describe the key contents of /opt, /etc/opt, and /var/opt.
(cid:127) Use find, whence, and whereis to find files in the HP-UX file system.
Module 6 —Connecting Peripherals
(cid:127) Describe the difference between workstations and servers.
(cid:127) Define the following terms: bus, device adapter/interface, and hardware path.
(cid:127) Compare and contrast the purpose of SCSI, serial, MUX, and parallel interfaces.
(cid:127) View the current hardware configuration with ioscan.
(cid:127) Use ioscan output to create a hardware diagram of the system.
(cid:127) List the steps required to install a new interface card.
(cid:127) List the steps required to connect a new SCSI, serial, or parallel device.
Module 7 —Configuring Device Files
(cid:127) Explain the purpose of a device file.
(cid:127) Explain the significance of major and minor numbers.
(cid:127) Differentiate between block and character i/o.
(cid:127) Use lsdev to list kernel driver major numbers.
(cid:127) Use ll to determine a device file’s major and minor numbers.
(cid:127) Use ioscan to list device files associated with a specific device.
(cid:127) Use lssf to interpret the characteristics of a device file.
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