HP-UX
System Administration
Length: 5 Days
Audience: System
Administors, those who wish to be System Administrators and anyone
else who will asked to perform administrative tasks in an HP-UX
environment.
Prerequisites:
Fundamentals of HP-UX and Bourne or Korn Shell Programming
Course Overview:
Attendees of this course will learn how to perform most day-to-day
system administration tasks. Topics include system startup and
shutdown, adding/deleting users, installing terminals, modems,
and printers, backing up and restoring system and user data, application
package installation, security, and general administrative advice.
A diskette containing helpful System Administration utilities
and guidelines is also provided to each attendee.
Objectives:
Upon completion of
this course you will be able to:
- start up and shut
down a HP-UX system gracefully,
- monitor system
status to determine correct operation,
- add and delete
user accounts and groups,
- add and configure
terminals and printers,
- create new filesystems,
check the integrity of filesystems, and repair damaged filesystems,
- perform complete
and incremental filesystem backups and restores,
- identify HP-UX
floppy and tape device special files,
- use the cpio and
tar archive programs for data storage and retrieval,
- set up and use
the cron and at facilities,
- install the HP-UX
operating system.
COURSE CONTENT
OVERVIEW OF SYSTEM ADMINISTRATION
Duties of the system
administrator
HP-UX system administration commands and utilities
Configuration files and scripts
Log files
SYSTEM STARTUP AND SHUTDOWN
Applying power
Run levels
Setting the date and time
Checking system status
System shutdown
ADDING AND DELETING USERS
The /etc/passwd
and /etc/group files
Adding a new user
Setting up a user's .profile file.
Deleting a user
MAINTAINING FILE SYSTEMS
Monitoring disk
space
Checking file systems
Creating new file systems
Mounting/unmounting file systems
ADDING PERIPHERALS TO THE SYSTEM
Terminals
Printers
Modems
DISK/TAPE MANAGEMENT
Disk/Tape Devices
The tar command
The cpio command
PERFORMING FILE BACKUPS AND RESTORES
Backup strategies
Using the cpio and tar commands.
Backing up file systems.
Restoring files.
TASK SCHEDULING
The cron demon.
The at command.
OPERATING SYSTEM INSTALLATION
Pre-Installation
Tasks
Installing the base operating system
Installing additional packages
