Chapter Summary

   

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Computer networks play an important role in personal and business life. Where networks have increased responsibilities of system administrators, they have also made many system administration tasks more convenient and easier. Tasks such as network printing and network backup and restore have proved very useful. Use of NFS and NIS adds many features to computer networks and provides central management for user data files and user accounts. At the same time, it is important to keep networks operational with minimum down time. Proper network monitoring and troubleshooting are musts for this purpose. HP-UX provides commands and utilities to monitor and troubleshoot network connectivity. SAM can also be used to manage many hosts on a network from a central place.

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