HP-UX System Administrator's Guide: Routine Management Tasks

Table of Contents
Preface.......................................................................................................................................17
Publication History.............................................................................................................17
Conventions........................................................................................................................17
Intended Audience.............................................................................................................18
About this Document Set....................................................................................................18
About this Volume: Routine Management Tasks.............................................................19
HP-UX 11i Release Names and Release Identifiers............................................................19
Finding HP-UX Information...............................................................................................21
1 Introduction..............................................................................................................................23
Configuration Tools............................................................................................................23
HP Systems Insight Manager........................................................................................23
HP-UX System Management Homepage (Web-Based)................................................23
HP-UX System Management Homepage (Text-Based).................................................23
HP-UX Commands........................................................................................................24
Using HP SIM and HP SMH versus HP-UX Commands ............................................24
System Management Homepage (Web-Based)..................................................................24
Starting an HP SMH Web Client...................................................................................27
Starting the HP SMH Daemon on the Target System...................................................28
System Management Homepage (Text-Based)...................................................................28
Starting Text-Based HP SMH........................................................................................33
Giving Users Limited Access to Text-Based HP SMH..................................................34
2 Booting and Shutdown..............................................................................................................37
Booting Systems..................................................................................................................37
New Mass Storage Stack for HP-UX 11i Version 3.......................................................37
HP-UX 11i v3 Device Special Files...........................................................................38
HP-UX 11i v3 Hardware Paths................................................................................38
Booting HP-UX on HP Integrity Servers: Details and Variations.................................38
A Standard Boot ......................................................................................................39
Automatic Versus Manual Booting..........................................................................40
Overriding an Automatic Boot...........................................................................41
Using the EFI Shell to Manually Boot Your System...........................................41
Adjusting the Autoboot Delay............................................................................42
Enabling / Disabling Autoboot...........................................................................43
Booting from an Alternate Boot Source...................................................................43
Booting from an Alternate Boot Device..............................................................44
Booting from an Alternate Kernel File...............................................................44
Changing the PRI, HAA, and ALT Boot Paths........................................................46
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