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HP-UX CSE Official Study Guide and Desk Reference
By Charles  Keenan
Publisher	: Prentice Hall PTR
Pub Date	: September 07, 2004
ISBN	: 0-13-146396-9
Pages	: 1704

		Copyright
		Hewlett-Packard Professional Books
		PREFACE
			HP-UX CSE: ADVANCED ADMINISTRATION
			HP-UX CSE: HIGH AVAILABILITY WITH HP-UX SERVICEGUARD
			HP-UX CSE: NETWORKING AND SECURITY
			Acknowledgments
		Part  ONE.   Managing HP-UX Servers
			Chapter ONE.   An Introduction to Your Hardware
				Section 1.1.   Key Server Technologies
				Section 1.2.   Processor Architecture
				Section 1.3.   Virtual Memory
				Section 1.4.   The IO Subsystem
				Section 1.5.   The Big Picture
				Section 1.6.   Before We Begin
				REFERENCES
			Chapter TWO.   Partitioned Servers: Node Partitions
				Section 2.1.   A Basic Hardware Guide to nPars
				Section 2.2.   The Genesis Partition
				Section 2.3.   Cell Behavior During the Initial Boot of a Partition
				Section 2.4.   Partition Manager
				Section 2.5.   Other Boot-Related Tasks
				Chapter Review
				Test Your Knowledge
				Answer to Test Your Knowledge Questions
				Chapter Review Questions
				Answers to Chapter Review Questions
			Chapter THREE.   Partitioned Servers: Virtual Partitions
				Section 3.1.   An Introduction to Virtual Partitions
				Section 3.2.   Obtaining the Virtual Partitions Software
				Section 3.3.   Setting Up an Ignite-UX Server to Support Virtual Partitions
				Section 3.4.   Planning Your Virtual Partitions
				Section 3.5.   Creating the vPar Database
				Section 3.6.   Booting a Newly Created vPar from an Ignite-UX Server
				Section 3.7.   Managing Hardware within a Virtual Partition
				Section 3.8.   Rebooting vpmon
				Section 3.9.   Interfacing with the Virtual Partition Monitor: vpmon
				Section 3.10.   Changing Partition Attributes
				Section 3.11.   Resetting a Virtual Partition
				Section 3.12.   Removing a Virtual Partition
				Section 3.13.   Turning Off Virtual Partition Functionality
				Chapter Review
				Test Your Knowledge
				Answers to Test Your Knowledge
				Chapter Review Questions
				Answers to Chapter Review Questions
			Chapter FOUR.   Advanced Peripherals Configuration
				Section 4.1.   Reorganizing Your IO Tree
				Section 4.2.   Disk Device Files in a Switched Fabric, Fibre Channel SAN
				Section 4.3.   Online Addition and Replacement: OLA/R
				Test Your Knowledge
				Answers to Test Your Knowledge
				Chapter Review Questions
				Answers to Chapter Review Questions
			Chapter FIVE.   Disks and Volumes: RAID Levels and RAID Parity Data
				Section 5.1.   RAID Levels
				Section 5.2.   RAID Parity Data
				Chapter Review
				Test Your Knowledge
				Answers to Test Your Knowledge
				Chapter Review Questions
				Answers to Chapter Review Questions
			Chapter SIX.   Disks and Volumes: LVM
				Section 6.1.   LVM Striping (RAID 0)
				Section 6.2.   LVM Mirroring (RAID 1)
				Section 6.3.   Alternate PV Links
				Section 6.4.   Exporting and Importing Volume Groups
				Section 6.5.   Forward Compatibility with Newer, Larger Capacity Disk Drives
				Chapter Review
				Test Your Knowledge
				Answers to Test Your Knowledge
				Chapter Review Questions
				Answers to Chapter Review Questions
			Chapter SEVEN.   Disks and Volumes: Veritas Volume Manager
				Section 7.1.   Introducing Veritas Volume Manager
				Section 7.2.   VxVM Striping (RAID 0)
				Section 7.3.   VxVM Mirroring (RAID 1)
				Section 7.4.   VxVM Striping and Mirroring (RAID 0/1 and 1/0)
				Section 7.5.   Faster Mirror Resynchronization after a System Crash
				Section 7.6.   VxVM RAID 5
				Section 7.7.   Recovering from a Failed Disk
				Section 7.8.   Using Spare Disks
				Section 7.9.   VxVM Snapshots
				Section 7.10.   VxVM Rootability
				Section 7.11.   Other VxVM Tasks
				Chapter Review
				Test Your Knowledge
				Answers to Test Your Knowledge
				Chapter Review Questions
				Answers to Chapter Review Questions
			Chapter EIGHT.   Filesystems: HFS, VxFS, and the VFS Layer
				Section 8.1.   Basic Filesystem Characteristics
				Section 8.2.   HFS Internal Structure
				Section 8.3.   Tuning an HFS Filesystem
				Section 8.4.   HFS Access Control Lists
				Section 8.5.   VxFS Internal Structures
				Section 8.6.   Online JFS Features
				Section 8.7.   Tuning a VxFS Filesystem
				Section 8.8.   VxFS Snapshots
				Section 8.9.   Navigating through Filesystems via the VFS Layer
				Chapter Review
				Test Your Knowledge
				Answers to Test Your Knowledge
				Chapter Review Questions
				Answers to Chapter Review Questions
				REFERENCES
			Chapter NINE.   Swap and Dump Space
				Section 9.1.   Swap Space, Paging, and Virtual Memory Management
				Section 9.2.   How Much Swap Space Do I Need?
				Section 9.3.   Configuring Additional Swap Devices
				Chapter Review on Swap Space
				Section 9.4.   When Dump Space Is Used
				Section 9.5.   Including Page Classes in the Crashdump Configuration
				Section 9.6.   Configuring Additional Dump Space
				Section 9.7.   The savecrash Process
				Section 9.8.   Dump and Swap Space in the Same Volume
				Chapter Review on Dump Space
				Test Your Knowledge
				Answers to Test Your Knowledge
				Chapter Review Questions
				Answers to Chapter Review Questions
				REFERENCES
			Chapter TEN.   Monitoring System Resources
				Section 10.1.   Dynamic Kernel Configuration and Monitoring
				Section 10.2.   Monitoring General System Activity and Events
				Section 10.3.   Was It a PANIC, a TOC, or an HPMC?
				Chapter Review
				Test Your Knowledge
				Answers to Test Your Knowledge
				Chapter Review Questions
				Answers to Chapter Review Questions
			Chapter ELEVEN.   Processes, Threads, and Bottlenecks
				Section 11.1.   Defining Processes and Threads
				Section 11.2.   Process Life Cycle
				Section 11.3.   Context Switches and Timeslices
				Section 11.4.   Process/Thread Priorities and Run Queues
				Section 11.5.   Multiprocessor Environments and Processor Affinity
				Section 11.6.   Memory Requirements for Processes/Threads
				Section 11.7.   Memory Limitations for 32-bit Operating Systems, magic Numbers, and Memory Windows
				Section 11.8.   Performance Optimized Page Sizes (POPS)
				Chapter Review on a Process Life Cycle
				Section 11.9.   Common Bottlenecks for Processes and Threads
				Chapter Review on Common Bottlenecks
				Section 11.10.   Prioritizing Workloads with PRM and WLM
				Chapter Review on PRM
				Chapter Review on WLM
				Test Your Knowledge
				Answers to Test Your Knowledge
				Chapter Review Questions
				Answers to Chapter Review Questions
				REFERENCES
		Part  TWO.   Install, Update, and Recovery
			Chapter TWELVE.   HP-UX Patches
				Section 12.1.   What Is a Patch?
				Section 12.2.   When Should I Patch My Server(s)?
				Section 12.3.   Understanding the Risks Involved When Applying Patches
				Section 12.4.   Obtaining Patches
				Section 12.5.   Patch Naming Convention
				Section 12.6.   Patch Ratings
				Section 12.7.   The Patch shar File
				Section 12.8.   Patch Attributes
				Section 12.9.   Setting Up a Patch Depot
				Section 12.10.   Installing Patches
				Section 12.11.   Removing Patches and Committing Patches
				Section 12.12.   Managing a Patch Depot
				Chapter Review
				Test Your Knowledge
				Answers to Test Your Knowledge
				Chapter Review Questions
				Answers to Chapter Review Questions
			Chapter THIRTEEN.   Installing Software with Software Distributor and Ignite-UX
				Section 13.1.   Using swinstall to Push Software across the Network
				Section 13.2.   Installing a Complete Operating System Using Ignite-UX
				Section 13.3.   Setting Up a Golden Image
				Section 13.4.   Making a Recovery Archive
				Chapter Review
				Test Your Knowledge
				Answers to Test Your Knowledge
				Chapter Review Questions
				Answers to Chapter Review Questions
			Chapter FOURTEEN.   Emergency Recovery Using the HP-UX Installation Media
				Section 14.1.   Recovering a Corrupt Boot Header Including a Missing ISL
				Section 14.2.   Recovering from Having No Bootable Kernel
				Section 14.3.   Recovering from a Missing Critical Boot File: /stand/rootconf
				Chapter Review
				Test Your Knowledge
				Answers to Test Your Knowledge
				Chapter Review Questions
				Answers to Chapter Review Questions
		Part  THREE.   Networking
			Chapter FIFTEEN.   Basic IP Configuration
				Section 15.1.   Basic Networking Kernel Parameters
				Section 15.2.   Data-Link Level Testing
				Section 15.3.   Changing Your MAC Address
				Section 15.4.   Link Speed and Auto-Negotiation
				Section 15.5.   What's in an IP Address?
				Section 15.6.   Subnetting
				Section 15.7.   Static Routes
				Section 15.8.   The netconf File
				Section 15.9.   Dynamic IP Allocation: RARP and DHCP
				Section 15.10.   Performing a Basic Network Trace
				Section 15.11.   Modifying Network Parameters with ndd
				Section 15.12.   IP Multiplexing
				Section 15.13.   The 128-Bit IP Address: IPv6
				Section 15.14.   Automatic Port Aggregation (APA)
				Chapter Review
				Test Your Knowledge
				Answers to Test Your Knowledge
				Chapter Review Questions
				Answers to Chapter Review Questions
				REFERENCES
			Chapter SIXTEEN.   Dynamic Routing
				Section 16.1.   The gated.conf Configuration File
				Section 16.2.   Router Discovery Protocol (RDP)
				Section 16.3.   Routing Information Protocol (RIP)
				Section 16.4.   Open Shortest Path First (OSPF)
				Chapter Review
				Test Your Knowledge
				Answers to Test Your Knowledge
				Chapter Review Questions
				Answers to Chapter Review Questions
				REFERENCES
			Chapter SEVENTEEN.   Domain Name System (DNS)
				Section 17.1.   Configuring a Master Name Server
				Section 17.2.   Configuring Additional Backup Slave and Caching-Only Name Servers
				Section 17.3.   Delegating Authority to a Subdomain Including DNS Forwarders
				Section 17.4.   Configuring DNS to Accept Automatic Updates from a DHCP Server
				Section 17.5.   Dynamic DNS Server Updates and TSIG Authentication
				Chapter Review
				Test Your Knowledge
				Answers to Test Your Knowledge
				Chapter Review Questions
				Answers to Chapter Review Questions
				REFERENCES
			Chapter EIGHTEEN.   Network Time Protocol
				Section 18.1.   What Time Is It?
				Section 18.2.   Choosing a Time Source
				Section 18.3.   Stratum Levels and Timeservers
				Section 18.4.   The Role of the NTP Software
				Section 18.5.   Analyzing Different Time Sources
				Section 18.6.   Setting Up the NTP Daemons
				Section 18.7.   NTP Server Relationships
				Section 18.8.   An Unlikely Server: A Local Clock Impersonator
				Section 18.9.   An NTP Polling Client
				Section 18.10.   An NTP Broadcast Client
				Section 18.11.   Other Points Relating to NTP
				Chapter Review
				Test Your Knowledge
				Answers to Test Your Knowledge
				Chapter Review Questions
				Answers to Chapter Review Questions
			Chapter NINETEEN.   An Introduction to sendmail
				Section 19.1.   Basic Checks to Ensure That sendmail Is Installed and Working
				Section 19.2.   Using sendmail without Using DNS
				Section 19.3.   Mail Aliases
				Section 19.4.   Masquerading or Site Hiding and Possible DNS Implications
				Section 19.5.   A Simple Mail Cluster Configuration
				Section 19.6.   Building Your Own sendmail.cf File
				Section 19.7.   Monitoring the Mail Queue
				Chapter Review
				Test Your Knowledge
				Answers to Test Your Knowledge
				Chapter Review Questions
				Answers to Chapter Review Questions
				REFERENCES
			Chapter TWENTY.   Common Internet Filesystem (CIFS/9000)
				Section 20.1.   CIFS, SMB, and SAMBA
				Section 20.2.   CIFS Client or Server: You Need the Software
				Section 20.3.   CIFS Server Configuration
				Section 20.4.   CIFS Client Configuration
				Section 20.5.   NTLM: Using a Windows Server to Perform Authentication and Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM)
				Chapter Review
				Test Your Knowledge
				Answers to Test Your Knowledge
				Chapter Review Questions
				Answers to Chapter Review Questions
			Chapter TWENTY ONE.   An Introduction to LDAP
				Section 21.1.   Introducing the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)
				Section 21.2.   LDAP-UX Integration Products
				Section 21.3.   Step-by-Step Guide to LDAP-UX Client Services
				Section 21.4.   Next Steps
				Chapter Review
				Test Your Knowledge
				Answers to Test Your Knowledge
				Chapter Review Questions
				Answers to Chapter Review Questions
			Chapter TWENTY TWO.   Web Servers to Manage HP-UX
				Section 22.1.   HP ObAM-Apache Web Server
				Section 22.2.   The Apache Web Server
				Chapter Review
				Test Your Knowledge
				Answers to Test Your Knowledge
				Chapter Review Questions
				Answers to Chapter Review Questions
			Chapter TWENTY THREE.   Other Network Technologies
				Section 23.1.   WAN Solutions: Frame Relay and ATM
				Section 23.2.   An Introduction to Fibre Channel, DWDM, and Extended Fabrics
				Section 23.3.   Virtual LAN (VLAN)
				Section 23.4.   Virtual Private Network (VPN)
				Chapter Review
				Test Your Knowledge
				Answers to Test Your Knowledge
				Chapter Review Questions
				Answers to Chapter Review Questions
				REFERENCES
		Part  FOUR.   High-Availability Clustering
			Chapter TWENTY FOUR.   Understanding "High Availability"
				Section 24.1.   Why We Are Interested in High Availability?
				Section 24.2.   How Much Availability? The Elusive "Five 9s"
				Section 24.3.   A High Availability Cluster
				Section 24.4.   Serviceguard and High Availability Clusters
				Chapter Review
				Test Your Knowledge
				Answers to Test Your Knowledge
				Chapter Review Questions
				Answers to Chapter Review Questions
				REFERENCES
			Chapter TWENTY FIVE.   Setting Up a Serviceguard Cluster
				Section 25.1.   The Cookbook for Setting Up a Serviceguard Package-less Cluster
				Section 25.2.   The Basics of a Failure
				Section 25.3.   The Basics of a Cluster
				Section 25.4.   The "Split-Brain" Syndrome
				Section 25.5.   Hardware and Software Considerations for Setting Up a Cluster
				Section 25.6.   Testing Critical Hardware before Setting Up a Cluster
				Section 25.7.   Setting Up a Serviceguard Package-less Cluster
				Section 25.8.   Constant Monitoring
				Chapter Review
				Test Your Knowledge
				Answers to Test Your Knowledge
				Chapter Review Questions
				Answers to Chapter Review Questions
			Chapter TWENTY SIX.   Configuring Packages in a Serviceguard Cluster
				Section 26.1.   The Cookbook for Setting Up Packages in a Serviceguard Cluster
				Section 26.2.   Setting Up and Testing a Serviceguard Package-less Cluster
				Section 26.3.   Understanding How a Serviceguard Package Works
				Section 26.4.   Establishing Whether You Can Utilize a Serviceguard Toolkit
				Section 26.5.   Understanding the Workings of Any In-house Applications
				Section 26.6.   Creating Package Monitoring Scripts, If Necessary
				Section 26.7.   Distributing the Application Monitoring Scripts to All Relevant Nodes in the Cluster
				Section 26.8.   Creating and Updating an ASCII Application Configuration File (cmmakepkg “p)
				Section 26.9.   Creating and Updating an ASCII Package Control Script (cmmakepkg “s)
				Section 26.10.   Manually Distributing to All Relevant Nodes the ASCII Package Control Script
				Section 26.11.   Checking the ASCII Package Control File (cmcheckconf)
				Section 26.12.   Distributing the Updated Binary Cluster Configuration File (cmapplyconf)
				Section 26.13.   Ensuring That Any Data Files and Programs That Are to Be Shared Are Loaded onto Shared Disk Drives
				Section 26.14.   Starting the Package
				Section 26.15.   Ensuring That Package Switching Is Enabled
				Section 26.16.   Testing Package Failover Functionality
				Chapter Review
				Test Your Knowledge
				Answers to Test Your Knowledge
				Chapter Review Questions
				Answers to Chapter Review Questions
			Chapter TWENTY SEVEN.   Managing a Serviceguard Cluster
				Section 27.1.   Typical Cluster Management Tasks
				Section 27.2.   Adding a Node to the Cluster
				Section 27.3.   Adding a Node to a Package
				Section 27.4.   Adding a New Package to the Cluster Utilizing a Serviceguard Toolkit
				Section 27.5.   Modifying an Existing Package to Use EMS Resources
				Section 27.6.   Deleting a Package from the Cluster
				Section 27.7.   Deleting a Node from the Cluster
				Section 27.8.   Discussing the Process of Rolling Upgrades within a Cluster
				Section 27.9.   If It Breaks, Fix It!
				Section 27.10.   Installing and Using the Serviceguard Manager GUI
				Chapter Review
				Test Your Knowledge
				Answers to Test Your Knowledge
				Chapter Review Questions
				Answers to Chapter Review Questions
			Chapter TWENTY EIGHT.   Additional Cluster Solutions
				Section 28.1.   Extended Serviceguard Cluster
				Section 28.2.   Metrocluster
				Section 28.3.   Continentalclusters
				Section 28.4.   Additional Cluster Solutions
				Section 28.5.   Other Cluster Considerations
				Chapter Review
				Test Your Knowledge
				Answers to Test Your Knowledge
				Chapter Review Questions
				Answers to Chapter Review Questions
		Part  FIVE.   HP-UX Security Administration
			Chapter TWENTY NINE.   Dealing with Immediate Security Threats
				Section 29.1.   A Review of User-Level Security Settings
				Section 29.2.   HP-UX Trusted Systems
				Section 29.3.   The /etc/default/security Configuration File
				Section 29.4.   Common Security Administration Tasks
				Test Your Knowledge
				Answers to Test Your Knowledge
				Chapter Review Questions
				Answers to Chapter Review Questions
				Answers to "File and Directory Permissions" Questions
				REFERENCES
			Chapter THIRTY.   A New Breed of Security Tools
				Section 30.1.   The Basics of Cryptography, Including Symmetric and Asymmetric Key Cryptography
				Section 30.2.   Secure Shell (SSH)
				Section 30.3.   Host Intrusion Detection System (HIDS)
				Section 30.4.   IPSec, Diffie-Hellman, and Modular Arithmetic
				Section 30.5.   IPFilter and Bastille
				Section 30.6.   Other Security-Related Terms
				Test Your Knowledge
				Answers to Test Your Knowledge
				Chapter Review Questions
				Answers to Chapter Review Questions
				REFERENCES
			Appendix  A.   Getting to Know Your Hardware: A Bit of Background
				Section A.1.   Processor Architecture
				Section A.2.   Common processor families
				Section A.3.   Memory Hierarchy
				Section A.4.   Main Memory
				Section A.5.   A Quick Word on Virtual Memory
				Section A.6.   Concurrency: Getting Someone Else to Help You
				Section A.7.   IO Bus Architecture and IO Devices
				Section A.8.   Disk Drives: Storage or Speed
				Section A.9.   Getting to Know Your Hardware
				Section A.10.   Conclusions
				PROBLEMS
				ANSWERS
				REFERENCES
			Appendix  B.   Source Code
				Section B.1.   infocache32
				Section B.2.   infocache64.c
				Section B.3.   dump_ioconfig.c
				Section B.4.   numCPU.c
				Section B.5.   setCPU.c
				Section B.6.   clockwatch .c
			Appendix  C.   Patching Usage Models White Paper
			Appendix  D.   Auto-Negotiation White Paper
			Appendix  E.   Building a Bastion Host White Paper
		Index