HP Tru64 UNIX v5.1 immersion for UNIX professionals

Prerequisites

To get the most from this course, the prospective student should have at least 3-5 years of UNIX system administration experience in a production environment. She/he would be well versed in "day-to-day" administrative duties, and is ready to take on a faster pace. This course is not for new or junior administrators, it is designed for the mind to senior level administrators who are preparing for the HP Tru64 UNIX certification tests.

Audience

UNIX-knowledgeable (to advanced system admin level) presales technical support or services personnel, internal to Compaq or business partners who can handle a fast-track to HP Tru64 UNIX certification.

Ways to save

Next Steps

TruCluster configuration & management (U3702S)

Course outline

• HP Tru64 UNIX system administration
• System manager responsibilities
• UNIX Software environment
• HP Tru64 UNIX components
• HP Tru64 UNIX system internals
• Using the common desktop environment
• HP Tru64 UNIX file systems
• Advanced file system
• System organization
• Updating system firmware
• Using SRM commands
• Updating the firmware
• Installing the system
• Preparing for an installation
• Performing the full installation
• Building a new kernel
• Configuring the system dynamically
• Modifying system attributes
• System configuration files
• Building a static kernel
• Disk device files
• Disk management tools
• Using hwmgr ,dsfmgr, the scu and devswmgr utility
• Configuring disk devices manually
• Configuring a printer with cde printer configuration
• Managing the print system
• Testing and troubleshooting local printers
• Introducing networker singleserver
• Archiving strategy
• Recovering data
• Backing up file systems with vdump
• Restoring file systems
• Networker singleserver utility
• Using monitoring tools and utilities
• Using CDE monitoring tools
• Using insight manager
• Understanding event logging
• Using ASCII event logging
• Using binary event logging
• Introducing compaq analyze
• Using event manager
• Using system exercisers
• Using the cron daemon
• Managing a system crash
• HP Tru64 UNIX network administration
• Tru64 UNIX networking introduction
• Preparing to configure a TCP/IP network
• Creating a simple network connection with quick setup
• Using the network setup wizard
• NetRAIN interfaces
• Configuring an IPv6 host
• DNS/BIND
• BIND configuration manager
• Mail environment
• Planning mail
• Configuring mail
• Remote installation service
• Setting up a RIS server
• Managing RIS clients
• Booting and installing a RIS client
• Cloning a network installation
• Dataless Management Services (DMS)
• Setting up a DMS server
• Managing DMS clients
• Using LAT
• Configuring a LAT
• Adding terminals on a terminal server
• Creating an optional LAT service
• Setting up a terminal server for a LAT printer
• Managing AdvFS file systems
• Introduction to file systems
• Directories and file types
• Directory hierarchy
• Mounting and unmounting file systems
• Introducing AdvFS concepts
• Setting up AdvFS
• Managing AdvFS
• Using AdvFS utilities
• Introducing the advanced file system manager
• Using AdvFS with LSM
• HP Tru64 UNIX security administration
• Security terms and concepts
• Threats to a computer system
• Orange book
• Tru64 UNIX and security
• Access control lists overview
• ACL commands
• ACL decision process
• ACL maintenance
• Administering ACLs
• Enhanced security
• Setting up system security
• Authorization controls and tools
• Protected password database fields
• Using edauth
• Lock file
• Manual add of account
• Protected subsystems
• Time values
• Auditing
• Audit records
• Audit data recovery
• Auditing tools
• Setting up auditing
• Audit events
• Audit command
• Enabling auditing
• Object selection and deselection
• Process targeting
• Audit log files
• Audit reports
• HP Tru64 UNIX performance administration
• Factors affecting performance
• Performance indices
• System resources and performance
• Tuning methodology
• Performance management
• Types of monitoring tools
• Using standard HP Tru64 UNIX tools
• System V environment monitoring tools
• Using CDE monitoring tools
• Performance manager
• Finding the performance problem
• Memory bottlenecks
• File system bottlenecks
• Network bottlenecks
• Process control and scheduling bottlenecks
• Special system problems
• System configuration file
• File system performance
• Memory performance
• CPU performance
• Network performance
• Installing the system
• Preparing for an installation
• Performing the full installation
• Performing an update installation
• Configuring and managing an HS controller
• HS Family SCSI connections
• Describing the HSZ hardware configuration
• Configuring HSZ controllers
• Configuring an HSG controller
• Controllers in transparent and multi-bus modes
• Zoning and cascaded switches
• Setting Up HSG array controller for HP Tru64 UNIX installation
• Using fibre channel storage in an HP Tru64 UNIX configuration
• Configuring an LSM volume
• Introducing LSM concepts
• LSM Objects
• Setting Up LSM
• Initializing LSM with the volsetup utility
• Using the volassist Command
• Mirroring the root, swap, and /usr partitions with LSM
• Using the LSM Storage administrator (lsmsa)