New features and functions of HP-UX 11i v3

Special notes

Experienced system administrators who prefer hands-on training should attend the 3-day HK711S RAIL class rather than the HE775AAE Technical Online Seminar.

Course overview

This one day seminar presents the major new features and functions of HP-UX 11i v3. It is designed for System and IT Managers familiar with HP-UX 11i and covers both HP 9000 PA-RISC and HP Integrity systems. Topics of discussion focus on new and enhanced security, networking, and administration features of HP-UX 11i v3. The seminar is 100% lecture and presentation.

Prerequisites

• HP-UX system and network administration I (H3064S) and HP-UX system and network administration II (H3065S) or
• HP-UX system and network administration for experienced UNIX system administrators (H5875S) or
• Previous equivalent experience in HP-UX, Solaris, AIX ,Tru-64 or Linux System Administration

Audience

• HP-UX System Managers
• IT Managers

Ways to save

Course objective

• Identify HP-UX 11i v3 features designed to improve HP-UX server management, software security, and networking flexibility
• Locate and access HP-UX 11i v3 web-based reference documentation and hands-on training information

Next steps

• Consider attending the other courses in the HP Virtual Server Environment (VSE) curriculum to learn more about HP-UX virtualization

Benefits to you

• Correlate new, enhanced, and updated features of HP-UX 11i v3 with your data center needs
• Incorporate selected HP-UX 11i v3 features in your upgrade planning to enhance server management, software security, and networking capabilities

Course outline

Introduction to HP-UsX 11i v3

• HP-UX 11i v3 improves performance, flexibility, and manageability
• Supported PA-RISC and Integrity servers
• Features unique to Integrity: hyper-threading, dynamic power savings and concurrent crash dumps
• New hardware addressing - agile view
• Automated optimization - LORA and Tune-N-Tools
• Administration interfaces - System Management Homepage
• Administration interfaces - HP Systems Insight Manager
• Online training and documentation references

HP-UX 11i v3 Security Features

• Install-Time Security (ITS)
• Activity auditing
• Identity Management Integration (IdMI) and access authorization
• Software Assistant (SWA)
• Security containment
• Secure resource partitions
• Lockdown with Bastille
• Host intrusion detection
• IPFilter and IPSec
• Kerberos and PAM
• OpenPegasus
• Secure shell and OpenSSL
• Security administration tools

HP-UX 11i v3 Networking Features

• IPv6 and DHCPv6
• Secure shell
• InfiniBand
• NFS and AutoFS
• Cache file system
• Directory services
• Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM) Services
• Network interface management
• ncweb as a TUI
• ncweb from system management homepage

HP-UX 11i v3 Administration Features

• Release review
• Distributed Systems Administration Utilities (DSAU)
• Administration interfaces
• Disabling swap
• Dynamic kernel tuning features
• HP-UX 11i v3 user administration features
• User and group enhancements and tools
• HP-UX 11i v3 I/O management features and tools
• Dynamic resource reconfiguration
• Mass storage device special files
• File system features
• LVM on HP-UX 11i v3
• Disk and file system management with SMH
• HP-UX 11i v3 disaster preparedness and recovery features
• Dynamic Root Disk
• HP-UX 11i v3 update and installation features
• Ignite-UX