The only definitive guide for HP-UX system administrators of all levels.

Marty Poniatowski has been a Solution Architect with Hewlett-Packard Company for 18 years in the New York area. He has worked with hundreds of Hewlett-Packard customers in many industries, including media and entertainment, consulting, Internet startups, financial services, and manufacturing.

Marty has been widely published in computer-industry trade publications. He has published more than 50 articles on various computer-related topics. In addition to this book, he is the author of 13 other Prentice Hall books. Marty holds an M.S. in Information Systems from Polytechnic University (Brooklyn, NY), an M.S. in Management Engineering from the University of Bridgeport (Bridgeport, CT), and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Roger Williams University (Bristol, RI).

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Preface to Springboard into Windows XP with Service Pack 2 PREFACE About The Book HP-UX 11i System Administration Handbookcovers HP-UX for both Intel#xAE;Itanium#xAE;servers, called Integrity Servers, and Precision Architecture (PARISC) servers, called the HP 9000 Servers. There were different versions of HP-UX that ran on HP Integrity and HP 9000 server families in the past but now HP-UX 11i version 2 runs on both server families, that is, the same source code base is used for both server families. Many differences exist between version 1 and version 2 such as commands used to configure the kernel. The following is a partial list of features of version 2, some of which are comparisons to version 1, that are important to the operation of HP-UX 11i. Keep in mind that this list is being enhanced continuously and that these are some features available at the time of this writing: Version 2 Update 2 Features 1 to 128-way processor scalability under the same operating system. Huge file system size of 32 TB, file size of 2 TB, and many other advanced file system-related features. Up to four different 64-bit operating systems can run simultaneously on the same HP Integrity Server including HP-UX 11i (which is covered extensively throughout this book), Windows Server 2003 and Linux (which are covered in Chapter xyz), and OpenVMS. Multi-operating-system management with HP System Insight Manager (HP SIM) covered in Chapter 11. Electrically isolated hard partitions (nPartitions) covered in Chapter 17. Virtual Partitions (vPars) that provide full software isolation covered in Chapter 16. In-chassis upgrade from PA-RISC to Itanium with version 2 being the same source code base for both architectures. ServiceGuard support for mixed environments with both HP Integrity and HP 9000 Servers. Instant Capacity On-Demand (iCOD) and numerous variants of iCOD. Substantial performance increase of version 2 over version 1. This is only a partial list of the many advanced features of HP-UX 11i. HP-UX has come a long way since the early days of the operating system. The speed of the operating system has increased along with the speed of the hardware. Functionality such has both hard and soft partitions and manageability with HP SIM has changed the way that systems are laid-out and managed. For enterprise applications HP-UX has truely reached the level of a fully functional data center operating system that can run any application vital to the operation of a business. I crafted this book in such as a way that the major HP-UX topics are covered in such a way to help you get up-and-running quickly using some of of HP-UX#x19;s advanced features such as partitioning. The book starts out with extensive coverage of booting HP Integrity and HP 9000 servers. Much of the firmware related to booting differs on these two server families so I cover booting these systems in detail in Chapters 1 and 2 for Integrity and HP 9000 respectively. The Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) is an important part of booting HP Integrity servers, which can run different operating systems in different partitions, so I spend a significant amount of time covering this topic in Chapter 1. There are many new functions in HP-UX 11i version 2 that have been introduced and have become mainstream since the previous revision of this book was introduced. Most HP-UX installations now make liberal use of Virtual Partitions (vPars) and hard partitions (called Node Partitions or nPartitions). I cover these technologies extensively in the book since this is currently the most sought after topic related to HP-UX. Many other topics are covered in additional chaptersas you would expect in one of my HP-UX system adminstration books. I hope you enjoy reading the book and learning the material as much as I did writing it. Marty Poniatowski marty.poniatowski@hp.com Relevant URLs There are many Web sites that can assist you in your HP-UX system administration endeavors. I have listed some of the more prominent HP-UX-related Web sites below as they existed at the time of this writing: HP Developer and Solution Partner Portal (DSPP). This is a web site that has a lot of good software developer information and tools such as the Software Transition Kit (STK). You can download the STK to test your application when moving from one revision of HP-UX to another. http://www.hp.com/dspp The Extended Firmware Interface (EFI). This is firmware on Itaniumbased systems that sits between the operating system and platform firmware: http://www.intel.com/technology/efi/index.htm IT Resource Center (ITRC) has valuable hardware, software, network, and other kinds of information for HP system administrators: http://www.itrc.com Technical documentation, including most all HP-UX documents: http://www.docs.hp.com Software depot home page for HP: http://www.software.hp.com HP Education Web Site http://www.education.hp.com vPar product information: http://www.hp.com/go/servicecontrol HP-UX documentation: http://docs.hp.com/hpux/ Instant Capacity on Demand (iCOD): http://www.hp.com/go/icod The International Association of HP Computing Professionals: http://www.interex.org Information on Intel#x19;s Itanium Processor: http://www.hp.com/go/itanium Register name servers at: http://www.icann.org/registrars/accredited-list.html Excellent unsupported system administration scripts at: ftp://contrib:9unsupp8@hprc.external.hp.com/sysadmin/ Ximian GNOME on HP-UX: http://www.hp.com/workstations/support/software/hpux/gnome/index.html Open Source and Other Sites of Interest Information on Perl, including sites to download Perl: http://www.perl.com The Perl Journal: http://www.tpj.com Information about the GNOME desktop environment: http://www.gnome.org Public-domain software that has been ported to HP-UX: http://hpux.connect.org.uk Site devoted to managing and promoting open source: http://www.opensource.org Linux documentation site: http://www.linuxdoc.org Acknowledgments There were too many people involved in helping me with this book to list each and every one. I have, therefore, decided to formally thank those who wrote sections of the book and those who took time to review it. I#x19;m still not sure whether it takes more time to write something or review something that has been written to ensure that it is correct. The Author: Marty Poniatowski