HP-UX System Administrator's Guide: Routine Management Tasks HP-UX 11i v3 (B3921-90023, September 2010)

Table of Contents
Preface.......................................................................................................................................15
Publication History.............................................................................................................15
Conventions........................................................................................................................15
Intended Audience.............................................................................................................16
About this Document Set....................................................................................................16
About this Volume: Routine Management Tasks.............................................................17
HP-UX 11i Release Names and Release Identifiers............................................................18
HP Encourages Your Comments........................................................................................18
Finding HP-UX Information...............................................................................................19
1 Introduction..............................................................................................................................21
Configuration Tools............................................................................................................21
HP Systems Insight Manager........................................................................................21
HP-UX System Management Homepage (Web-Based)................................................22
HP-UX System Management Homepage (Text-Based).................................................22
HP-UX Commands........................................................................................................23
Using HP SIM and HP SMH versus HP-UX Commands ............................................23
System Management Homepage (Web-Based)..................................................................23
Starting an HP SMH Web Client...................................................................................26
Starting the HP SMH Daemon on the Target System...................................................27
System Management Homepage (Text-Based)...................................................................27
Starting Text-Based HP SMH........................................................................................32
Giving Users Limited Access to Text-Based HP SMH..................................................33
2 Booting and Shutdown..............................................................................................................35
Booting Systems..................................................................................................................35
Mass Storage Stack for HP-UX 11i Version 3................................................................35
HP-UX 11i v3 Device Special Files...........................................................................36
HP-UX 11i v3 Hardware Paths................................................................................36
Booting HP-UX on HP Integrity Servers: Details and Variations.................................36
A Standard Boot ......................................................................................................37
Automatic Versus Manual Booting..........................................................................39
Overriding an Automatic Boot...........................................................................39
Using the EFI Shell to Manually Boot Your System...........................................40
Adjusting the Autoboot Delay............................................................................40
Enabling / Disabling Autoboot...........................................................................41
Booting from an Alternate Boot Source...................................................................41
Booting from an Alternate Boot Device..............................................................42
Booting from an Alternate Kernel File...............................................................43
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