HP-UX 11i v3 administration for experienced HP-UX 11i v2 system administrators

Course overview

This course provides the opportunity for experienced 11i v2 system administrators to develop hands-on experience with many new, updated and enhanced features of HP-UX 11i v3. Course topics of discussion include security, networking and administration features, with hands-on lab exercises focusing on HP-UX 11i v3 administration features. The 2-day course is 50% lecture and 50% hands-on labs using HP servers.

Prerequisites

• Experience administering HP-UX 11i v2 servers and/or equivalent training (H5875S or H3064S & H3065S)

Audience

• Experienced HP-UX 11i v2 administrators

Ways to save

Course objectives

• Develop the knowledge and skills to implement the new features of HP-UX 11i v3

Next steps

• HP Partition Management: nPars, vPars, & Integrity Virtual Machines (U5075S)
• HP Systems Insight Managerr (HB508S)
• HP-UX Resource Management: WLM & PRM (U5447S)
• HP-UX Performance and Tuning (H4262S)
• HP-UX Troubleshooting (H4264S)
• Ignite-UX (H1978S)
• HP-UX Security (H3541S)

Benefits to you

• Enhance your HP-UX servers with the latest security, networking and administration features of HP-UX 11i v3

Course outline

Introduction to HP-UX 11i v3

• Identify PA-RISC and Integrity server platforms that support HP-UX 11i v3
• Locate online documentation for HP-UX 11i v3, including release notes, administration guides, and white papers

HP-UX 11i v3 Hardware Addressing

• List the advantages of agile addressing
• Display storage devices using legacy addressing
• Display storage devices using agile addressing
• Toggle storage device addresses between agile and legacy addressing
• Use available CLUI, TUI, and GUI administration tools to manage addressable devices
• Identify file system enhancements (UFC, CacheFS, VxFS, CIFS, LVM, VxVM)

HP-UX 11i v3 User and Group Enhancements

• Configure and manage users and groups using new configuration and login
  security features
• Use available CLUI, TUI, and GUI administration tools to manage users and groups

HP-UX 11i v3 Kernel Tuning

• Define types, display and modify types of dynamically tunable kernel parameters
• Define and modify states of dynamically loadable kernel modules
• Create, display, export, import, load, and boot named kernel configurations
• Use available CLUI, TUI, and GUI administration tools to manage HP-UX 11i v3
  kernel tuning

HP-UX 11i v3 Backup and Recovery

• Create, list the contents of, and recover files from a backup using the recommended
  HP-UX methods
• Develop the procedure for creating and booting from a bootable recovery medium
• Use Dynamic Root Disk to install patches while minimizing downtime

HP-UX 11i v3 Fault Management

• Use fault management features to display and analyze system health
• Enable/disable PCI error handling
• Perform PCI/PCI-X online addition, replacement, and deletion
• Use Dynamic nPartitions to online migrate a cell
• Configure selective, compressed and concurrent (parallel) dumps
• Configure core dump parameters for applications
• Create a live kernel dump

HP-UX 11i v3 Installation and Update

• Perform a cold install of HP-UX 11i v3
• Update an existing HP-UX 11i v2 system to HP-UX 11i v3

HP-UX 11i v3 Networking and Security Features

• Identify major new, updated, or enhanced security features
• Identify major new, updated, or enhanced networking features
• Use available CLUI, TUI, and GUI administration tools for managing security and
  network features