AUDIENCE:   Those who need to expand their basic knowledge of HP-UX to enable them to successfully administer activities to be undertaken within the HP-UX environment. PREREQUISITES:   Delegates should have a basic understanding of UNIX and ideally some experience in the workplace. Attendance at our UNIX The Essentials course is recommended. Knowledge of a standard UNIX editor (e.g. vi) is required DURATION:   3 days. Hands on. OBJECTIVES:   This course will allow delegates to understand the roles of a system administrator and use the: · SAM tool · Manage user and group issues · Implement secure policies under HP-UX · Manage all aspects of printer administration. The course also covers everything you need to know about: · disks on an HP-UX system: · How to use LVM to partition disks · How to tell if a system is healthy · How to resize filesystems that are too full · How to fix broken filesystems · How to recover in the event of a total failure. COURSE CONTENT:   System Administration The Superuser Switching Users System Administration Menu Adding Custom Commands to SAM User Management Adding a User Using SAM to Create a New User Account The User Environment Security Why Security? The HP-UX Advanced Security Sub-system Hardware And Device Files Hardware Overview Device Files Filesystems SVR4 Directory Layout Filesystems HFS Filesystems Structure The Veritas Filesystems (VxFS) The HP-UX LVM Manual Commands Using Logical Volumes to Hold Filesystems Mounting Filesystems Filesystems Mounted at Boot Unmounting Filesystems Listing Mounted Filesystems Creating Filesystems Using SAM Filesystem Maintenance Monitoring Disk Usage Typical Areas That Need Monitoring HP-UX Housekeeping Scripts Maximum File Sizes Expanding Filesystems Swap Fixing Broken Filesystems - fsck The Software Distributor Distribution Depots and Spooling Software The Software Distributor Creating a Distribution Depot Installing Software Examining a Directory Depot Verification Processes Understanding the Process Examining Processes Killing Processes Glance Timing Commands Timing and Scheduling Scheduling One-off Jobs Regular Job Scheduling Setting up Schedules Security Considerations Backup and Restoring Why Backup? Choices of Backup Command The make-recovery Command The fbackup Command The cpio Command Restoring Files Tar The dd Command Printer Management Printing Printer Administration Printer Interface Scripts Local, Remote and Network Printers Starting/Stopping the Spooler Creating Print Queues Print Queue Maintenance HPDPS - HP Distributed Print System Booting And Shutting Down Init States (Run Levels) HP-UX Start-up Sequence Starting Daemons at Boot Time Starting and Stopping Subsystems Shutdown Commands The Boot Process Interrupting the Boot Process Disaster Recovery Boot Failures System Recovery Tape Creating a System Recovery Tape Using a System Recovery Tape Problem Scenarios and Solutions Recovering from a Broken Kernel No root Password Problems With a Non-root Filesystem Broken root VG Cloning a System GN07/01