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HP-Certified HP-UX System Administration
By Rafeeq Ur Rehman
 
Publisher : Prentice Hall PTR
Pub Date : May 31, 2000
ISBN : 0-13-018374-1
Pages : 832
     


    Copyright
    FOREWORD
    PREFACE
      Part 1: Fundamentals of the UNIX System
      Part 2: HP-UX System Administration
      Part 3: HP-UX Network Administration
      How to Register for the HP-UX Certification Examination
      Strategies for Taking the Test
    ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
    Part I:  Fundamentals of the UNIX System
      Chapter 1.  Getting Started with UNIX
      Section 1.1.  UNIX Shells
      Section 1.2.  Logging In and Out of HP-UX
      Section 1.3.  Home Directory
      Section 1.4.  Using HP-UX Commands
      Section 1.5.  Shell Startup Files
      Section 1.6.  Some Simple HP-UX Commands
      Chapter Summary
      Chapter Review Questions
      Test Your Knowledge
      Chapter 2.  Working with Files and Directories
      Section 2.1.  Basic Operations on Files
      Section 2.2.  File Naming Rules
      Section 2.3.  Working with Directories
      Section 2.4.  Copying and Moving Files
      Section 2.5.  Wildcards
      Section 2.6.  File Types
      Section 2.7.  Searching File Contents
      Section 2.8.  Finding Files
      Section 2.9.  Miscellaneous File Handling Commands
      Chapter Summary
      Chapter Review Questions
      Test Your Knowledge
      Chapter 3.  Environment Variables
      Section 3.1.  Environment and Shell Variables
      Section 3 2.  Setting and Displaying Variables
      Section 3.3.  Predefined Environment Variables
      Section 3.4.  Exporting Shell Variables
      Section 3.5.  Setting the Command Prompt
      Section 3.6.  The PATH Variable
      Chapter Summary
      Chapter review questions
      Test Your Knowledge
      Chapter 4.  Input/Output Redirection and Pipes
      Section 4.1.  Redirecting Standard Output
      Section 4.2.  Redirecting Standard Input
      Section 4.3.  Redirecting Standard Error
      Section 4.4.  Redirecting Standard Input, Output, and Error Simultaneously
      Section 4.5.  Pipes and How They Are Used
      Section 4.6.  The T-Junction
      Chapter Summary
      Chapter Review Questions
      Test Your Knowledge
      Chapter 5.  Using the vi Editor
      Section 5.1.  Modes Used in vi
      Section 5.2.  Starting and Stopping vi
      Section 5.3.  Cursor Movement
      Section 5.4.  Inserting and Deleting Text
      Section 5.5.  Replacing Text
      Section 5 6.  Undo and Redo
      Section 5.7.  Scrolling Text
      Section 5.8.  Search and Replace
      Section 5.9.  Cut, Copy, and Paste
      Section 5.10.  Importing and Exporting Text
      Section 5.11.  Configuring vi Options
      Chapter Summary
      Chapter Review Questions
      Test Your Knowledge
      Chapter 6.  Regular Expressions
      Section 6.1.  How a Command Is Executed
      Section 6.2.  Position Specifiers
      Section 6.3.  Meta Characters
      Section 6.4.  Standard and Extended Regular Expressions
      Chapter Summary
      Chapter Review Questions
      Test Your Knowledge
      Chapter 7.  File Permissions
      Section 7.1.  Who Are UNIX Users
      Section 7.2.  Types of File Permissions
      Section 7.3.  Modifying File Permissions
      Section 7.4.  Default File Permissions
      Section 7.5.  Changing the Owner and Group of a File
      Section 7.6.  Special File Permissions
      Section 7.7.  Finding Files Having a Particular Set of File Permissions
      Section 7.8.  Access Control Lists
      Section 7.9.  Miscellaneous Commands
      Chapter Summary
      Chapter Review Questions
      Test Your Knowledge
      Chapter 8.  UNIX File System Hierarchy
      Section 8.1.  Static and Dynamic Files
      Section 8.2.  The Root Directory ( / )
      Section 8.3.  The Device Directory (/dev)
      Section 8.4.  The /etc Directory
      Section 8.5.  The Home Directory (/home)
      Section 8.6.  The System Binary Directory (/sbin)
      Section 8.7.  The /stand Directory
      Section 8.8.  The /net Directory
      Section 8.9.  The Application Directory (/opt)
      Section 8.10.  The Temporary File Directory (/tmp)
      Section 8.11.  The /usr Directory
      Section 8.12.  The Variable Files Directory (/var)
      Section 8.13.  The lost+found Directory
      Section 8.14.  Some Useful Commands Related to File System Hierarchy
      Chapter Summary
      Chapter Review Questions
      Test Your Knowledge
      Chapter 9.  Working with the POSIX Shell and Job Control
      Section 9.1.  POSIX Shell Capabilities
      Section 9.2.  File Name Completion
      Section 9.3.  History and Reentering Commands
      Section 9.4.  Command Line Editing
      Section 9.5.  Substitution
      Section 9.6.  Setting Terminal Parameters
      Section 9.7.  Job Control
      Chapter Summary
      Chapter Review Questions
      Test Your Knowledge
      Chapter 10.  Introduction to Shell Programming
      Section 10.1.  Anatomy of a Shell Program
      Section 10.2.  Using Variables
      Section 10.3.  Command Line Arguments
      Section 10.4.  Interactive Shell Programs
      Section 10.5.  Exit Codes
      Section 10.6.  The test Command
      Section 10.7.  Branching
      Chapter Summary
      Chapter Review Questions
      Test Your Knowledge
      Chapter 11.  Advanced Shell Programming
      Section 11.1.  Arithmetic and Logic Operations
      Section 11.2.  The while-do-done Loop
      Section 11.3.  The until-do-done Loop
      Section 11.4.  The for-do-done Loop
      Section 11.5.  Breaking a Loop
      Section 11.6.  Text Processing
      Chapter Summary
      Chapter Review Questions
      Test Your Knowledge
    Part II:  HP-UX System Administration
      Chapter 12.  The System Administration Manager
      Section 12.1.  Why Use SAM?
      Section 12.2.  Starting and Stopping SAM
      Section 12.3.  A Sample SAM Session
      Section 12.4.  SAM Log Files
      Section 12.5.  Restricted Use of SAM by Non-Root Users
      Chapter Summary
      Chapter Review Questions
      Test Your Knowledge
      Chapter 13.  Installing HP-UX
      Section 13.1.  Introduction to HP Workstations and Servers
      Section 13.2.  Installing HP-UX
      Section 13.3.  Guided Installation
      Section 13.4.  Advanced Installation
      Section 13.5.  Initial System Configuration
      Chapter Summary
      Chapter Review Questions
      Test Your Knowledge
      Chapter 14.  System Startup and Shutdown
      Section 14.1.  Introduction to the Boot Process
      Section 14.2.  Processor Dependent Code
      Section 14.3.  Boot Area on the System Disk
      Section 14.4.  Initial System Loader
      Section 14.5.  Loading the HP-UX Kernel
      Section 14.6.  The init Process
      Section 14.7.  Runlevels
      Section 14.8.  Adding a Program to Run at Boot Time
      Section 14.9.  System Shutdown
      Chapter Summary
      Chapter Review Questions
      Test Your Knowledge
      Chapter 15.  Software and Patch Management
      Section 15.1.  Software Packaging Structure
      Section 15.2.  Listing Installed Software
      Section 15.3.  Installing New Software
      Section 15.4.  Removing Software
      Section 15.5.  Verifying Installed Software
      Section 15.6.  Managing Software Depots
      Section 15.7.  HP-UX Patches
      Section 15.8.  Installing and Removing Patches
      Section 15.9.  SD-UX Commands
      Chapter Summary
      Chapter Review Questions
      Test Your Knowledge
      Chapter 16.  Reconfiguring the HP-UX Kernel
      Section 16.1.  Why Reconfigure the Kernel?
      Section 16.2.  The Reconfiguration Process
      Section 16.3.  Kernel Rebuilding in a Nutshell
      Section 16.4.  Booting from the Old Kernel
      Section 16.5.  Common Kernel Tunable Parameters
      Section 16.6.  Using SAM to Reconfigure the Kernel
      Chapter Summary
      Chapter Review Questions
      Test Your Knowledge
      Chapter 17.  Peripheral Devices
      Section 17.1.  Devices and Physical Paths
      Section 17.2.  Device Files
      Section 17.3.  SCSI Device File Naming Convention
      Section 17.4.  Listing Installed Devices
      Section 17.5.  Creating Device Files
      Section 17.6.  Installing a New Device
      Section 17.7.  Terminals and Modems
      Chapter Summary
      Chapter Review Questions
      Test Your Knowledge
      Chapter 18.  HP-UX File Systems and Logical Volume Manager
      Section 18.1.  Disk Devices and Their Configuration
      Section 18.2.  Introduction to Logical Volume Manager
      Section 18.3.  Listing and Creating Logical Volumes
      Section 18.4.  Introduction to File Systems
      Section 18.5.  The HighPerformance File System
      Section 18.6.  The Journaled File System
      Section 18.7.  Creating a New File System
      Section 18.8.  Mounting and Unmounting a File System
      Section 18.9.  Managing a File System
      Section 18.10.  File System Repair
      Section 18.11.  Important LVM Commands
      Chapter Summary
      Chapter Review Questions
      Test Your Knowledge
      Chapter 19.  User and Group Management
      Section 19.1.  Managing Users
      Section 19.2.  Managing Groups
      Section 19.3.  The Password File (/etc/passwd)
      Section 19.4.  The Group File (/etc/group)
      Section 19.5.  The Skeleton Directory (/etc/skel)
      Section 19.6.  Using SAM for User and Group Management
      Chapter Summary
      Chapter Review Questions
      Test Your Knowledge
      Chapter 20.  Dealing with HP-UX Processes
      Section 20.1.  Process Table
      Section 20.2.  Process States
      Section 20.3.  Listing Processes
      Section 20.4.  Sending Signals to Processes
      Section 20.5.  Process Nice Values
      Section 20.6.  Some Useful Commands
      Chapter Summary
      Chapter Review Questions
      Test Your Knowledge
      Chapter 21.  Printing on HP-UX
      Section 21.1.  Introduction to the Printing System
      Section 21.2.  Types of Printers
      Section 21.3.  Directory Hierarchy of the Printing System
      Section 21.4.  Adding a Printer
      Section 21.5.  Managing Print Queues
      Section 21.6.  Print Job Priorities
      Section 21.7.  Troubleshooting
      Chapter Summary
      Chapter Review Questions
      Test Your Knowledge
      Chapter 22.  Memory and Swap Space Management
      Section 22.1.  System Memory and Swap Space
      Section 22.2.  Types of Swap Space
      Section 22.3.  Creating Swap Space
      Section 22.4.  Monitoring Swap Space
      Section 22.5.  Swap Space Priorities and Performance
      Chapter Summary
      Chapter Review Questions
      Test Your Knowledge
      Chapter 23.  System Backup and Recovery
      Section 23.1.  Types of Backup
      Section 23.2.  Methods of Backup and Restore
      Section 23.3.  Using fbackup and frecover
      Section 23.4.  Using tar
      Section 23.5.  Using SAM to Back Up and Restore Data
      Section 23.6.  Using Ignite-UX
      Chapter Summary
      Chapter Review Questions
      Test Your Knowledge
      Chapter 24.  Automating Jobs
      Section 24.1.  Introduction to cron
      Section 24.2.  Automating Jobs Using the crontab Command
      Section 24.3.  Automating Jobs Using the at Command
      Chapter Summary
      Chapter Review Questions
      Test Your Knowledge
      Chapter 25.  System Performance Monitoring
      Section 25.1.  Tools Used for Performance Monitoring
      Section 25.2.  Using GlancePlus
      Chapter Summary
    Part III:  HP-UX Network Administration
      Chapter 26.  Basic Network Concepts
      Section 26.1.  Network Terminology
      Section 26.2.  The OSI Model
      Chapter Summary
      Chapter Review Questions
      Test Your Knowledge
      Chapter 27.  Network Components and Topologies
      Section 27.1.  Network Topologies
      Section 27.2.  Network Hardware Components
      Section 27.3.  MAC Addresses
      Section 27.4.  Access Methods
      Section 27.5.  Ethernet and IEEE 802.3
      Section 27.6.  Token Ring and IEEE 802.5
      Section 27.7.  FDDI
      Chapter Summary
      Chapter Review Questions
      Test Your Knowledge
      Chapter 28.  Introduction to the TCP/IP Protocol
      Section 28.1.  Introduction to TCP/IP
      Section 28.2.  Building an IP Network
      Section 28.3.  TCP and UDP Protocols
      Section 28.4.  Ports and Sockets
      Chapter Summary
      Chapter Review Questions
      Test Your Knowledge
      Chapter 29.  Configuring LAN Interface Adapters
      Section 29.1.  Configuring LAN Adapters
      Section 29.2.  Configuring an IP Address to a LAN Adapter
      Section 29.3.  Adding Routes
      Section 29.4.  Using SAM to Configure a LAN Adapter
      Section 29.5.  Troubleshooting LAN Connectivity
      Chapter Summary
      Chapter Review Questions
      Test Your Knowledge
      Chapter 30.  Configuring and Managing ARPA/Berkeley Services
      Section 30.1.  Introduction to Internet Services
      Section 30.2.  Starting Internet Services
      Section 30.3.  Using SAM to Manage Network Services
      Chapter Summary
      Chapter Review Questions
      Test Your Knowledge
      Chapter 31.  Host Name Resolution and Domain Name Server
      Section 31.1.  Host Name to IP Address Mapping
      Section 31.2.  Name Resolution Methods
      Section 31.3.  Introduction to the Domain Name System
      Section 31.4.  Configuring the Primary DNS
      Section 31.5.  Configuring the Secondary DNS
      Section 31.6.  Configuring the Caching DNS
      Section 31.7.  Configuring the DNS Client
      Section 31.8.  Using SAM to Configure DNS
      Chapter Summary
      Chapter Review Questions
      Test Your Knowledge
      Chapter 32.  Configuring and Managing NIS
      Section 32.1.  NIS Concepts
      Section 32.2.  Configuring NIS
      Section 32.3.  Managing NIS
      Section 32.4.  Controlling Access
      Section 32.5.  Using SAM to Configure NIS
      Chapter Summary
      Chapter Review Questions
      Test Your Knowledge
      Chapter 33.  Configuring and Managing the Network File System
      Section 33.1.  NFS Concepts
      Section 33.2.  Configuring an NFS Server
      Section 33.3.  Configuring an NFS Client
      Section 33.4.  NFS Daemons
      Section 33.5.  Troubleshooting
      Chapter Summary
      Chapter Review Questions
      Test Your Knowledge
      Chapter 34.  HP-UX Automounter
      Section 34.1.  Automounter Maps
      Section 34.2.  Configuring Automounter
      Chapter Summary
      Chapter Review Questions
      Test Your Knowledge
      Chapter 35.  Network Time Protocol
      Section 35.1.  Introduction to NTP
      Section 35.2.  Configuring the NTP Server
      Section 35.3.  Configuring an NTP Client
      Section 35.4.  Using SAM to Configure NTP
      Chapter Summary
      Chapter Review Questions
      Test Your Knowledge
      Chapter 36.  System and Network Administration: Final Thoughts
      Section 36.1.  Routine Uses of a Network
      Section 36.2.  Using syslogd Over a Network
      Section 36.3.  Network Performance Monitoring
      Section 36.4.  Routine Tasks
      Chapter Summary
      Appendix A.  CHAPTER REVIEW ANSWERS
      Part One: Fundamentals of the UNIX Systems
      Part Two: HP-UX System Administration
      Part Three: HP-UX Network Administration
      Appendix B.  TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE ANSWERS
      Part One: Fundamentals of UNIX Systems
      Part Two: HP-UX System Administration
      Part Three: HP-UX Network Administration
      Appendix C.  HP-UX COMMANDS AND CONFIGURATION FILES
      Commands
      Configuration Files
      Appendix D.  SAMPLE HP-UX CERTIFICATION EXAM
      Appendix E.  GLOSSARY
      Glossary

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HP Certified
HP Certified: HP-UX System Administration
ISBN: 0130183741
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2000
Pages: 390
Authors: Rafeeq Rehman

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