HP-UX Network Administraion
5 Days

Length: 5 Days

Audience: System Administrators, Network Administrators and anyone responsible for Administering an HP-UX machine in a Networked environment.

Prerequisites: Fundamentals of HP-UX and HP-UX System Administration

Course Description: This course provides knowledge and hands-on experience necessary to configure and maintain a TCP/IP network environment. Topics include an overview of basic networking concepts, checking for proper installation of hardware and software, names, purpose, and format of each network control file, configuring the network, setting up network and/or remote file systems, and setting up the Network Information Service (formally, Yellow Pages).

Upon completion of this course the attendee will be able to:

• describe and state the purpose of the various network protocols;
• check network hardware and software for proper installation;
• configure the network software for the specific environment;
• set up NFS/or RFS;
• set up NIS; and,
• manage the network.
  

Course Content:

NETWORK OVERVIEW

Network Layers - Physical, Link, Transport, Virtual Terminal, etc.
TCP/IP Description
FTP Description
SMTP Description
Server-Client Relationships

SETTING UP THE NETWORK

Checking the physical connection.
UNIX-UNIX Configuration
UNIX-PC Configuration
Installing Network Software

CONFIGURING THE NETWORK

Network Control Files
/etc/gateways
/etc/hosts
/etc/hosts.equiv
.rhosts
/etc/services
.netrc
/etc/networks
/etc/protocols
/etc/ftpusers
Configuring and Managing Remote and Network File Systems
Configuring and Managing the Network Information Service.