HP Certified: HP-UX System Administration
HP Certified: HP-UX System Administration
ISBN: 0130183741
EAN: 2147483647
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2000
Pages: 390
Pages: 390
Authors: Rafeeq Rehman
- HP-Certified HP-UX System Administration
- Table of contents
- Dedication
- 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
- 1.1 UNIX Shells
- 1.2 Logging In and Out of HP-UX
- 1.3 Home Directory
- 1.4 Using HP-UX Commands
- 1.5 Shell Startup Files
- 1.6 Some Simple HP-UX Commands
- Chapter Summary
- Chapter Review Questions
- Test Your Knowledge
- Chapter 2. Working with Files and Directories
- 2.1 Basic Operations on Files
- 2.2 File Naming Rules
- 2.3 Working with Directories
- 2.4 Copying and Moving Files
- 2.5 Wildcards
- 2.6 File Types
- 2.7 Searching File Contents
- 2.8 Finding Files
- 2.9 Miscellaneous File Handling Commands
- Chapter Summary
- Chapter Review Questions
- Test Your Knowledge
- Chapter 3. Environment Variables
- 3.1 Environment and Shell Variables
- 3 2 Setting and Displaying Variables
- 3.3 Predefined Environment Variables
- 3.4 Exporting Shell Variables
- 3.5 Setting the Command Prompt
- 3.6 The PATH Variable
- Chapter Summary
- Chapter review questions
- Test Your Knowledge
- Chapter 4. InputOutput Redirection and Pipes
- 4.1 Redirecting Standard Output
- 4.2 Redirecting Standard Input
- 4.3 Redirecting Standard Error
- 4.4 Redirecting Standard Input, Output, and Error Simultaneously
- 4.5 Pipes and How They Are Used
- 4.6 The T-Junction
- Chapter Summary
- Chapter Review Questions
- Test Your Knowledge
- Chapter 5. Using the vi Editor
- 5.1 Modes Used in
- 5.2 Starting and Stopping
- 5.3 Cursor Movement
- 5.4 Inserting and Deleting Text
- 5.5 Replacing Text
- 5 6 Undo and Redo
- 5.7 Scrolling Text
- 5.8 Search and Replace
- 5.9 Cut, Copy, and Paste
- 5.10 Importing and Exporting Text
- 5.11 Configuring
- Chapter Summary
- Chapter Review Questions
- Test Your Knowledge
- Chapter 6. Regular Expressions
- 6.1 How a Command Is Executed
- 6.2 Position Specifiers
- 6.3 Meta Characters
- 6.4 Standard and Extended Regular Expressions
- Chapter Summary
- Chapter Review Questions
- Test Your Knowledge
- Chapter 7. File Permissions
- 7.1 Who Are UNIX Users
- 7.2 Types of File Permissions
- 7.3 Modifying File Permissions
- 7.4 Default File Permissions
- 7.5 Changing the Owner and Group of a File
- 7.6 Special File Permissions
- 7.7 Finding Files Having a Particular Set of File Permissions
- 7.8 Access Control Lists
- 7.9 Miscellaneous Commands
- Chapter Summary
- Chapter Review Questions
- Test Your Knowledge
- Chapter 8. UNIX File System Hierarchy
- 8.1 Static and Dynamic Files
- 8.2 The Root Directory ( )
- 8.3 The Device Directory (dev)
- 8.4 The etc Directory
- 8.5 The Home Directory (home)
- 8.6 The System Binary Directory (sbin)
- 8.7 The stand Directory
- 8.8 The net Directory
- 8.9 The Application Directory (opt)
- 8.10 The Temporary File Directory (tmp)
- 8.11 The usr Directory
- 8.12 The Variable Files Directory (var)
- 8.13 The lostfound Directory
- 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
- 9.1 POSIX Shell Capabilities
- 9.2 File Name Completion
- 9.3 History and Reentering Commands
- 9.4 Command Line Editing
- 9.5 Substitution
- 9.6 Setting Terminal Parameters
- 9.7 Job Control
- Chapter Summary
- Chapter Review Questions
- Test Your Knowledge
- Chapter 10. Introduction to Shell Programming
- 10.1 Anatomy of a Shell Program
- 10.2 Using Variables
- 10.3 Command Line Arguments
- 10.4 Interactive Shell Programs
- 10.5 Exit Codes
- 10.6 The test Command
- 10.7 Branching
- Chapter Summary
- Chapter Review Questions
- Test Your Knowledge
- Chapter 11. Advanced Shell Programming
- 11.1 Arithmetic and Logic Operations
- 11.2 The while-do-done Loop
- 11.3 The until-do-done Loop
- 11.4 The for-do-done Loop
- 11.5 Breaking a Loop
- 11.6 Text Processing
- Chapter Summary
- Chapter Review Questions
- Test Your Knowledge
- Part II: HP-UX System Administration
- Chapter 12. The System Administration Manager
- 12.1 Why Use SAM?
- 12.2 Starting and Stopping SAM
- 12.3 A Sample SAM Session
- 12.4 SAM Log Files
- 12.5 Restricted Use of SAM by Non-Root Users
- Chapter Summary
- Chapter Review Questions
- Test Your Knowledge
- Chapter 13. Installing HP-UX
- 13.1 Introduction to HP Workstations and Servers
- 13.2 Installing HP-UX
- 13.3 Guided Installation
- 13.4 Advanced Installation
- 13.5 Initial System Configuration
- Chapter Summary
- Chapter Review Questions
- Test Your Knowledge
- Chapter 14. System Startup and Shutdown
- 14.1 Introduction to the Boot Process
- 14.2 Processor Dependent Code
- 14.3 Boot Area on the System Disk
- 14.4 Initial System Loader
- 14.5 Loading the HP-UX Kernel
- 14.6 The init Process
- 14.7 Runlevels
- 14.8 Adding a Program to Run at Boot Time
- 14.9 System Shutdown
- Chapter Summary
- Chapter Review Questions
- Test Your Knowledge
- Chapter 15. Software and Patch Management
- 15.1 Software Packaging Structure
- 15.2 Listing Installed Software
- 15.3 Installing New Software
- 15.4 Removing Software
- 15.5 Verifying Installed Software
- 15.6 Managing Software Depots
- 15.7 HP-UX Patches
- 15.8 Installing and Removing Patches
- 15.9 SD-UX Commands
- Chapter Summary
- Chapter Review Questions
- Test Your Knowledge
- Chapter 16. Reconfiguring the HP-UX Kernel
- 16.1 Why Reconfigure the Kernel?
- 16.2 The Reconfiguration Process
- 16.3 Kernel Rebuilding in a Nutshell
- 16.4 Booting from the Old Kernel
- 16.5 Common Kernel Tunable Parameters
- 16.6 Using SAM to Reconfigure the Kernel
- Chapter Summary
- Chapter Review Questions
- Test Your Knowledge
- Chapter 17. Peripheral Devices
- 17.1 Devices and Physical Paths
- 17.2 Device Files
- 17.3 SCSI Device File Naming Convention
- 17.4 Listing Installed Devices
- 17.5 Creating Device Files
- 17.6 Installing a New Device
- 17.7 Terminals and Modems
- Chapter Summary
- Chapter Review Questions
- Test Your Knowledge
- Chapter 18. HP-UX File Systems and Logical Volume Manager
- 18.1 Disk Devices and Their Configuration
- 18.2 Introduction to Logical Volume Manager
- 18.3 Listing and Creating Logical Volumes
- 18.4 Introduction to File Systems
- 18.5 The HighPerformance File System
- 18.6 The Journaled File System
- 18.7 Creating a New File System
- 18.8 Mounting and Unmounting a File System
- 18.9 Managing a File System
- 18.10 File System Repair
- 18.11 Important LVM Commands
- Chapter Summary
- Chapter Review Questions
- Test Your Knowledge
- Chapter 19. User and Group Management
- 19.1 Managing Users
- 19.2 Managing Groups
- 19.3 The Password File (etcpasswd)
- 19.4 The Group File (etcgroup)
- 19.5 The Skeleton Directory (etcskel)
- 19.6 Using SAM for User and Group Management
- Chapter Summary
- Chapter Review Questions
- Test Your Knowledge
- Chapter 20. Dealing with HP-UX Processes
- 20.1 Process Table
- 20.2 Process States
- 20.3 Listing Processes
- 20.4 Sending Signals to Processes
- 20.5 Process Nice Values
- 20.6 Some Useful Commands
- Chapter Summary
- Chapter Review Questions
- Test Your Knowledge
- Chapter 21. Printing on HP-UX
- 21.1 Introduction to the Printing System
- 21.2 Types of Printers
- 21.3 Directory Hierarchy of the Printing System
- 21.4 Adding a Printer
- 21.5 Managing Print Queues
- 21.6 Print Job Priorities
- 21.7 Troubleshooting
- Chapter Summary
- Chapter Review Questions
- Test Your Knowledge
- Chapter 22. Memory and Swap Space Management
- 22.1 System Memory and Swap Space
- 22.2 Types of Swap Space
- 22.3 Creating Swap Space
- 22.4 Monitoring Swap Space
- 22.5 Swap Space Priorities and Performance
- Chapter Summary
- Chapter Review Questions
- Test Your Knowledge
- Chapter 23. System Backup and Recovery
- 23.1 Types of Backup
- 23.2 Methods of Backup and Restore
- 23.3 Using fbackup and frecover
- 23.4 Using tar
- 23.5 Using SAM to Back Up and Restore Data
- 23.6 Using Ignite-UX
- Chapter Summary
- Chapter Review Questions
- Test Your Knowledge
- Chapter 24. Automating Jobs
- 24.1 Introduction to cron
- 24.2 Automating Jobs Using the crontab Command
- 24.3 Automating Jobs Using the at Command
- Chapter Summary
- Chapter Review Questions
- Test Your Knowledge
- Chapter 25. System Performance Monitoring
- 25.1 Tools Used for Performance Monitoring
- 25.2 Using GlancePlus
- Chapter Summary
- Part III: HP-UX Network Administration
- Chapter 26. Basic Network Concepts
- 26.1 Network Terminology
- 26.2 The OSI Model
- Chapter Summary
- Chapter Review Questions
- Test Your Knowledge
- Chapter 27. Network Components and Topologies
- 27.1 Network Topologies
- 27.2 Network Hardware Components
- 27.3 MAC Addresses
- 27.4 Access Methods
- 27.5 Ethernet and IEEE 802.3
- 27.6 Token Ring and IEEE 802.5
- 27.7 FDDI
- Chapter Summary
- Chapter Review Questions
- Test Your Knowledge
- Chapter 28. Introduction to the TCPIP Protocol
- 28.1 Introduction to TCPIP
- 28.2 Building an IP Network
- 28.3 TCP and UDP Protocols
- 28.4 Ports and Sockets
- Chapter Summary
- Chapter Review Questions
- Test Your Knowledge
- Chapter 29. Configuring LAN Interface Adapters
- 29.1 Configuring LAN Adapters
- 29.2 Configuring an IP Address to a LAN Adapter
- 29.3 Adding Routes
- 29.4 Using SAM to Configure a LAN Adapter
- 29.5 Troubleshooting LAN Connectivity
- Chapter Summary
- Chapter Review Questions
- Test Your Knowledge
- Chapter 30. Configuring and Managing ARPABerkeley Services
- 30.1 Introduction to Internet Services
- 30.2 Starting Internet Services
- 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
- 31.1 Host Name to IP Address Mapping
- 31.2 Name Resolution Methods
- 31.3 Introduction to the Domain Name System
- 31.4 Configuring the Primary DNS
- 31.5 Configuring the Secondary DNS
- 31.6 Configuring the Caching DNS
- 31.7 Configuring the DNS Client
- 31.8 Using SAM to Configure DNS
- Chapter Summary
- Chapter Review Questions
- Test Your Knowledge
- Chapter 32. Configuring and Managing NIS
- 32.1 NIS Concepts
- 32.2 Configuring NIS
- 32.3 Managing NIS
- 32.4 Controlling Access
- 32.5 Using SAM to Configure NIS
- Chapter Summary
- Chapter Review Questions
- Test Your Knowledge
- Chapter 33. Configuring and Managing the Network File System
- 33.1 NFS Concepts
- 33.2 Configuring an NFS Server
- 33.3 Configuring an NFS Client
- 33.4 NFS Daemons
- 33.5 Troubleshooting
- Chapter Summary
- Chapter Review Questions
- Test Your Knowledge
- Chapter 34. HP-UX Automounter
- 34.1 Automounter Maps
- 34.2 Configuring Automounter
- Chapter Summary
- Chapter Review Questions
- Test Your Knowledge
- Chapter 35. Network Time Protocol
- 35.1 Introduction to NTP
- 35.2 Configuring the NTP Server
- 35.3 Configuring an NTP Client
- 35.4 Using SAM to Configure NTP
- Chapter Summary
- Chapter Review Questions
- Test Your Knowledge
- Chapter 36. System and Network Administration: Final Thoughts
- 36.1 Routine Uses of a Network
- 36.2 Using syslogd Over a Network
- 36.3 Network Performance Monitoring
- 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. HP-UX Glossary
- Book Glossary
HP Certified: HP-UX System Administration
ISBN: 0130183741
EAN: 2147483647
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2000
Pages: 390
Pages: 390
Authors: Rafeeq Rehman