Relevant URLs

There are many Web sites that can assist you in your HP-UX system administration endeavors. I have listed some of the more prominent HP-UX- related Web sites below as they existed at the time of this writing:

HP Developer and Solution Partner Portal (DSPP). This is a web site that has a lot of good software developer information and tools such as the Software Transition Kit (STK). You can download the STK to test your application when moving from one revision of HP-UX to another.

http://www.hp.com/dspp

The Extended Firmware Interface (EFI). This is firmware on Itanium-based systems that sits between the operating system and platform firmware:

http://www.intel.com/technology/efi/index.htm

IT Resource Center (ITRC) has valuable hardware, software, network, and other kinds of information for HP system administrators:

http://www.itrc.com

Technical documentation, including most all HP-UX documents:

http://www.docs.hp.com

Software depot home page for HP:

http://www.software.hp.com

HP Education Web Site

http://www.education.hp.com

vPar product information:

http://www.hp.com/go/servicecontrol

HP-UX documentation:

http://docs.hp.com/hpux/

Instant Capacity on Demand (iCOD):

http://www.hp.com/go/icod

The International Association of HP Computing Professionals:

http://www.interex.org

Information on Intel's Itanium Processor:

http://www.hp.com/go/itanium

Register name servers at:

http://www.icann.org/registrars/ accredited -list.html

Excellent unsupported system administration scripts at:

ftp:// contrib :[e-mail]/sysadmin/

Ximian GNOME on HP-UX:

http://www.hp.com/workstations/support/software/hpux/gnome/index.html

Open Source and Other Sites of Interest

Information on Perl, including sites to download Perl:

http://www.perl.com

The Perl Journal:

http://www.tpj.com

Information about the GNOME desktop environment:

http://www.gnome.org

Public-domain software that has been ported to HP-UX:

http://hpux.connect.org.uk

Site devoted to managing and promoting open source:

http://www.opensource.org

Linux documentation site:

http://www.linuxdoc.org