HP-UX CSE(c) Official Study Guide and Desk Reference
HP-UX CSE(c) Official Study Guide and Desk Reference
ISBN: N/A
EAN: N/A
EAN: N/A
Year: 2006
Pages: 434
Pages: 434
- HP-UX CSE Official Study Guide and Desk Reference
- Table of Contents
- 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
- 1.1 Key Server Technologies
- 1.2 Processor Architecture
- 1.3 Virtual Memory
- 1.4 The IO Subsystem
- 1.5 The Big Picture
- 1.6 Before We Begin...
- REFERENCES
- Chapter TWO. Partitioned Servers: Node Partitions
- 2.1 A Basic Hardware Guide to nPars
- 2.2 The Genesis Partition
- 2.3 Cell Behavior During the Initial Boot of a Partition
- 2.4 Partition Manager
- 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
- 3.1 An Introduction to Virtual Partitions
- 3.2 Obtaining the Virtual Partitions Software
- 3.3 Setting Up an Ignite-UX Server to Support Virtual Partitions
- 3.4 Planning Your Virtual Partitions
- 3.5 Creating the vPar Database
- 3.6 Booting a Newly Created vPar from an Ignite-UX Server
- 3.7 Managing Hardware within a Virtual Partition
- 3.8 Rebooting vpmon
- 3.9 Interfacing with the Virtual Partition Monitor: vpmon
- 3.10 Changing Partition Attributes
- 3.11 Resetting a Virtual Partition
- 3.12 Removing a Virtual Partition
- 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
- 4.1 Reorganizing Your IO Tree
- 4.2 Disk Device Files in a Switched Fabric, Fibre Channel SAN
- 4.3 Online Addition and Replacement: OLAR
- 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
- 5.1 RAID Levels
- 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
- 6.1 LVM Striping (RAID 0)
- 6.2 LVM Mirroring (RAID 1)
- 6.3 Alternate PV Links
- 6.4 Exporting and Importing Volume Groups
- 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
- 7.1 Introducing Veritas Volume Manager
- 7.2 VxVM Striping (RAID 0)
- 7.3 VxVM Mirroring (RAID 1)
- 7.4 VxVM Striping and Mirroring (RAID 01 and 10)
- 7.5 Faster Mirror Resynchronization after a System Crash
- 7.6 VxVM RAID 5
- 7.7 Recovering from a Failed Disk
- 7.8 Using Spare Disks
- 7.9 VxVM Snapshots
- 7.10 VxVM Rootability
- 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
- 8.1 Basic Filesystem Characteristics
- 8.2 HFS Internal Structure
- 8.3 Tuning an HFS Filesystem
- 8.4 HFS Access Control Lists
- 8.5 VxFS Internal Structures
- 8.6 Online JFS Features
- 8.7 Tuning a VxFS Filesystem
- 8.8 VxFS Snapshots
- 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
- 9.1 Swap Space, Paging, and Virtual Memory Management
- 9.2 How Much Swap Space Do I Need?
- 9.3 Configuring Additional Swap Devices
- Chapter Review on Swap Space
- 9.4 When Dump Space Is Used
- 9.5 Including Page Classes in the Crashdump Configuration
- 9.6 Configuring Additional Dump Space
- 9.7 The savecrash Process
- 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
- 10.1 Dynamic Kernel Configuration and Monitoring
- 10.2 Monitoring General System Activity and Events
- 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
- 11.1 Defining Processes and Threads
- 11.2 Process Life Cycle
- 11.3 Context Switches and Timeslices
- 11.4 ProcessThread Priorities and Run Queues
- 11.5 Multiprocessor Environments and Processor Affinity
- 11.6 Memory Requirements for ProcessesThreads
- 11.7 Memory Limitations for 32-bit Operating Systems, magic Numbers, and Memory Windows
- 11.8 Performance Optimized Page Sizes (POPS)
- Chapter Review on a Process Life Cycle
- 11.9 Common Bottlenecks for Processes and Threads
- Chapter Review on Common Bottlenecks
- 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
- 12.1 What Is a Patch?
- 12.2 When Should I Patch My Server(s)?
- 12.3 Understanding the Risks Involved When Applying Patches
- 12.4 Obtaining Patches
- 12.5 Patch Naming Convention
- 12.6 Patch Ratings
- 12.7 The Patch shar File
- 12.8 Patch Attributes
- 12.9 Setting Up a Patch Depot
- 12.10 Installing Patches
- 12.11 Removing Patches and Committing Patches
- 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
- 13.1 Using swinstall to Push Software across the Network
- 13.2 Installing a Complete Operating System Using Ignite-UX
- 13.3 Setting Up a Golden Image
- 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
- 14.1 Recovering a Corrupt Boot Header Including a Missing ISL
- 14.2 Recovering from Having No Bootable Kernel
- 14.3 Recovering from a Missing Critical Boot File: standrootconf
- 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
- 15.1 Basic Networking Kernel Parameters
- 15.2 Data-Link Level Testing
- 15.3 Changing Your MAC Address
- 15.4 Link Speed and Auto-Negotiation
- 15.5 What s in an IP Address?
- 15.6 Subnetting
- 15.7 Static Routes
- 15.8 The netconf File
- 15.9 Dynamic IP Allocation: RARP and DHCP
- 15.10 Performing a Basic Network Trace
- 15.11 Modifying Network Parameters with ndd
- 15.12 IP Multiplexing
- 15.13 The 128-Bit IP Address: IPv6
- 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
- 16.1 The gated.conf Configuration File
- 16.2 Router Discovery Protocol (RDP)
- 16.3 Routing Information Protocol (RIP)
- 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)
- 17.1 Configuring a Master Name Server
- 17.2 Configuring Additional Backup Slave and Caching-Only Name Servers
- 17.3 Delegating Authority to a Subdomain Including DNS Forwarders
- 17.4 Configuring DNS to Accept Automatic Updates from a DHCP Server
- 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
- 18.1 What Time Is It?
- 18.2 Choosing a Time Source
- 18.3 Stratum Levels and Timeservers
- 18.4 The Role of the NTP Software
- 18.5 Analyzing Different Time Sources
- 18.6 Setting Up the NTP Daemons
- 18.7 NTP Server Relationships
- 18.8 An Unlikely Server: A Local Clock Impersonator
- 18.9 An NTP Polling Client
- 18.10 An NTP Broadcast Client
- 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
- 19.1 Basic Checks to Ensure That sendmail Is Installed and Working
- 19.2 Using sendmail without Using DNS
- 19.3 Mail Aliases
- 19.4 Masquerading or Site Hiding and Possible DNS Implications
- 19.5 A Simple Mail Cluster Configuration
- 19.6 Building Your Own sendmail.cf File
- 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 (CIFS9000)
- 20.1 CIFS, SMB, and SAMBA
- 20.2 CIFS Client or Server: You Need the Software
- 20.3 CIFS Server Configuration
- 20.4 CIFS Client Configuration
- 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
- 21.1 Introducing the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)
- 21.2 LDAP-UX Integration Products
- 21.3 Step-by-Step Guide to LDAP-UX Client Services
- 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
- 22.1 HP ObAM-Apache Web Server
- 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
- 23.1 WAN Solutions: Frame Relay and ATM
- 23.2 An Introduction to Fibre Channel, DWDM, and Extended Fabrics
- 23.3 Virtual LAN (VLAN)
- 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
- 24.1 Why We Are Interested in High Availability?
- 24.2 How Much Availability? The Elusive
- 24.3 A High Availability Cluster
- 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
- 25.1 The Cookbook for Setting Up a Serviceguard Package-less Cluster
- 25.2 The Basics of a Failure
- 25.3 The Basics of a Cluster
- 25.4 The Split-Brain Syndrome
- 25.5 Hardware and Software Considerations for Setting Up a Cluster
- 25.6 Testing Critical Hardware before Setting Up a Cluster
- 25.7 Setting Up a Serviceguard Package-less Cluster
- 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
- 26.1 The Cookbook for Setting Up Packages in a Serviceguard Cluster
- 26.2 Setting Up and Testing a Serviceguard Package-less Cluster
- 26.3 Understanding How a Serviceguard Package Works
- 26.4 Establishing Whether You Can Utilize a Serviceguard Toolkit
- 26.5 Understanding the Workings of Any In-house Applications
- 26.6 Creating Package Monitoring Scripts, If Necessary
- 26.7 Distributing the Application Monitoring Scripts to All Relevant Nodes in the Cluster
- 26.8 Creating and Updating an ASCII Application Configuration File (cmmakepkg p)
- 26.9 Creating and Updating an ASCII Package Control Script (cmmakepkg s)
- 26.10 Manually Distributing to All Relevant Nodes the ASCII Package Control Script
- 26.11 Checking the ASCII Package Control File (cmcheckconf)
- 26.12 Distributing the Updated Binary Cluster Configuration File (cmapplyconf)
- 26.13 Ensuring That Any Data Files and Programs That Are to Be Shared Are Loaded onto Shared Disk Drives
- 26.14 Starting the Package
- 26.15 Ensuring That Package Switching Is Enabled
- 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
- 27.1 Typical Cluster Management Tasks
- 27.2 Adding a Node to the Cluster
- 27.3 Adding a Node to a Package
- 27.4 Adding a New Package to the Cluster Utilizing a Serviceguard Toolkit
- 27.5 Modifying an Existing Package to Use EMS Resources
- 27.6 Deleting a Package from the Cluster
- 27.7 Deleting a Node from the Cluster
- 27.8 Discussing the Process of Rolling Upgrades within a Cluster
- 27.9 If It Breaks, Fix It
- 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
- 28.1 Extended Serviceguard Cluster
- 28.2 Metrocluster
- 28.3 Continentalclusters
- 28.4 Additional Cluster Solutions
- 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
- 29.1 A Review of User-Level Security Settings
- 29.2 HP-UX Trusted Systems
- 29.3 The etcdefaultsecurity Configuration File
- 29.4 Common Security Administration Tasks
- Test Your Knowledge
- Answers to Test Your Knowledge
- Chapter Review Questions
- Answers to Chapter Review Questions
- Answers to
- REFERENCES
- Chapter THIRTY. A New Breed of Security Tools
- 30.1 The Basics of Cryptography, Including Symmetric and Asymmetric Key Cryptography
- 30.2 Secure Shell (SSH)
- 30.3 Host Intrusion Detection System (HIDS)
- 30.4 IPSec, Diffie-Hellman, and Modular Arithmetic
- 30.5 IPFilter and Bastille
- 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
- A.1 Processor Architecture
- A.2 Common processor families
- A.3 Memory Hierarchy
- A.4 Main Memory
- A.5 A Quick Word on Virtual Memory
- A.6 Concurrency: Getting Someone Else to Help You
- A.7 IO Bus Architecture and IO Devices
- A.8 Disk Drives: Storage or Speed
- A.9 Getting to Know Your Hardware
- A.10 Conclusions
- PROBLEMS
- ANSWERS
- REFERENCES
- Appendix B. Source Code
- B.1 infocache32
- B.2 infocache64.c
- B.3 dump_ioconfig.c
- B.4 numCPU.c
- B.5 setCPU.c
- 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
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HP-UX CSE(c) Official Study Guide and Desk Reference
ISBN: N/A
EAN: N/A
EAN: N/A
Year: 2006
Pages: 434
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