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Ignite UX
Systems Administration
Using Ignite-UX to improve quality assurance in a large HP-UX environment
Maintain a legacy golden image in case problem is discovered with a newly developed build…
Capacity Planning
Systems Administration
Quick and dirty ldap/sudo migration
You stand up a new HP-UX host. sudo and ldap won't work. You know it…
LVM
Patching & Updates
Systems Administration
VxVM Veritas Volume Manager
Migrate VXVM booted system to LVM
From the HP-UX Veritas Administration guide, buried on page 106 This example shows how to…
Systems Administration
VxVM Veritas Volume Manager
VxVM replace boot disk
Create a partition description file (Need to update the EFI and HPSP size below according…
Systems Administration
Why HP-UX root shell needs to be /sbin/sh
Thanks to Jibn Antony of the Best Buy IDC team for validating. So who cares…
Patching & Updates
Systems Administration
swlist check the state of patches
swlist -l fileset -a state | grep -v config | sed '/^#/d' Output looks…
LVM
Scripting
Systems Administration
setboot hardware path to legacy hardware path. A converter.
HP-UX 11.23 setboot provides output only including the hardware path (ioscan -H). When calculating DRD…
Capacity Planning
Systems Administration
Preparation procedure for hpux boot disk (11.31)
# vi /tmp/idf 3 EFI 500MB HPUX 100% HPSP 400MB Use the idisk command to…
Scripting
Systems Administration
awk trick of the day. Parsing comma delimited input to a sequential file
Lets say I have a list of servers a mile long to visit. Got a…
hardware
Scripting
Systems Administration
Quick and dirty awk trick to see all Fiber Channel status
I needed to update documentation and I needed more information that my prior syslayout.sh script…
