Duration: 3 Days
In this course, you will gain hands-on experience with many of the new, updated, and enhanced features of HP-UX 11i v3. You will cover security, networking, and administration features, with focus on HP-UX 11i v3 administration features. You will spend half of class in hands-on labs using HP servers.
What You Will Learn
- Manage mass storage using HP-UX 11i v3 agile addressing
- Implement new
logical volume manager (LVM) features
- Volume group
quiescence
- Volume group attribute modification
- Striped logical volume mirrors
- Creation of LVM version
2.0 volume groups
- Upgrades of LVM v1.0 volume groups
- Use Dynamic Root Disk (DRD) to protect the root volume group
- Configure new
crash dump features
- Perform a cold installation of HP-UX 11i v3
- Upgrade
HP-UX 11i v2 to 11iv3
- Upgrade an earlier HP-UX 11iv3 version to a later
11iv3 media kit using DRD
- Configure and monitor standard mode security
extensions for user login and password control without converting to trusted
mode
- Use new network configuration and monitoring tools
- Manage HP-UX 11i
systems with System Management Homepage (SMH) and new command line interfaces
(CLI)
Audience
System administrators familiar with HP-UX 11i v2
Prerequistes
- HP-UX System and Network Administration I and HP-UX System and Network
Administration II
- HP-UX for Experienced UNIX System Administrators
- Or equivalent experience administering HP-UX 11i servers
Course Outline
1. HP-UX 11i v3
- Precision Architecture - Reduced
Instruction Set Computer (PA-RISC) and Integrity Server Platforms that Support
HP-UX 11i v3
- Locate Online Documentation for HP-UX 11i v3
- Release Notes
- Administration Guides
- White Papers
2. HP-UX 11i v3 Hardware Addressing
- Advantages of Agile Addressing
- Display Storage Devices Using Legacy and
Agile Addressing
- Toggle Storage Device Addresses Between Agile and Legacy
Addressing
- Use Available Command Line User Interface (CLUI), Tangible User
Interface (TUI), and Graphics User Interface (GUI) Administration Tools to
Manage Addressable Devices
3. HP-UX 11i v3 Dynamic
Root Disk
- Minimize Downtime with Dynamic Root Disk
- Creating and Updating
a Clone
- Managing Inactive Images
4. HP-UX 11i v3
Installation and Update
- Performing a Cold Install of HP-UX 11i v3
- Updating an Existing HP-UX 11i v2 System to HP-UX 11i v3
- Updating an Earlier
Version of 11iv3 to a Later Version of 11iv3 via DRD
5.
HP-UX 11i v3 Mass Storage
- LVM Enhancements
- VxVM Enhancements
- Using
SMH Tools to Manage Disks
6. HP-UX 11i v3 File
Systems
- File system enhancements
- Unified File Cache
(UFC)
- CacheFS
- VERITAS File System
(VxFS)
- Network File System (NFS)
- Common Internet Files System (CIFS)
- Memory File System
(MemFS)
- International Standardization for Organization
(ISO) Image Files
7. HP-UX 11i v3 User and Group
Enhancements
- Configuring and Managing Users and Groups Using New
Configuration and Login Security Features
- Using Available CLUI, TUI, and GUI
Administration Tools to Manage Users and Groups
8.
HP-UX 11i v3 Kernel Tuning
- Types, Display, and Modify Types of Dynamically
Tunable Kernel Parameters
- Modifying States of Dynamically Loadable Kernel
Modules
- Creating, Displaying, Exporting, Importing, Loading, and Booting
Named Kernel Configurations
- Using Available CLUI, TUI, and GUI
Administration Tools to Manage HP-UX 11i v3 Kernel Tuning
9.
HP-UX 11i v3 Networking and Security Features
- Major New, Updated, or Enhanced
Security and Networking Features
- Using Available CLUI, TUI, and GUI
Administration Tools for Managing Security and Network Features
10.
HP-UX 11i v3 Fault Management
- Using Fault Management Features to Display and
Analyze System Health
- Enable/disable PCI Error Handling
- Performing
PCI/PCI-X Online Addition, Replacement, and Deletion
- Using Dynamic
nPartitions to Online Migrate a Cell
- Configuring Selective, Compressed, and
Concurrent (Parallel) Dumps
- Configuring Core Dump Parameters for
Applications
- Creating a Live Kernel Dump
Course Labs
