This is the definitive guide to installing and administering HP-UX 11i Version 2 in any environment, on both HP 9000 and HP Integrity server families.

Drawing on 18 years of on-site HP-UX consulting experience, Marty Poniatowski offers unparalleled practical insight into running HP-UX 11i efficiently and reliably, illuminating features even experienced HP-UX sysadmins find confusing. Poniatowski organizes this book around your day-to-day needs and your system's lifecycle. He begins with in-depth coverage of installation and bootup, then walks through everything from LVM and kernel configuration through networking. He especially focuses on the capabilities and tools that make HP-UX unique—and how you can use them to save time and money. Coverage includes

• Partitioning from start to finish—including vPars and nPartitions installation, creation, and modification

• Booting HP Integrity systems with EFI, and HP 9000 systems with PDC, ISL, or hpux

• Mastering the Management Processor (MP): console, virtual front panel, and command menu

• Using HP-UX's new kernel-building commands: kcconfig, kcusage, kctune, kcmodule, and more

• Working with HP-UX's new web-based tools: pd (devices), parmgr (partitions), and kcweb (kernel)

• Mapping LBA to slot numbers: clear explanations of a non-intuitive technique

• Using Ignite-UX to boot and recover systems across the network

• Managing disks, devices, backup, users/groups, and much more

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Good Integrity info source - 2005-06-14
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HP announced plans to migrate off PA-RISC to Itanium and this is one of very few sources of information about Itanium based HP Integrity platform. So if you are thinking about Integrity, you pretty much don't have much choice and luckily the book is good enough.

If you're looking for some HP-UX general reference, this books is good, but not much different from the older books of the same author.

So bottomline - if you got Integrity or it's your first HP-UX book - it's a great choice. If you already have a bunch of HP-UX books and no Integrity - probably you won't find a lot of new info in this one.

The Ultimate Resource for Your HP-UX Needs - 2005-07-05
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Over time the HP-UX operating system and the hardware it runs on have seen many changes presenting system administrators with new challenges and opportunities. Thankfully, there is a resource you can rely on to help understand these changes and how to best utilize the benefits they provide. HP-UX 11i Version 2 System Administration : HP Integrity and HP 9000 Servers is the latest in an amazing series of books by Marty Poniatowski. The author is a "hands-on" consultant with HP and has been a dependable source of information for administrators for years. Marty is a widely published author with more than a dozen computer related books. In his latest release Marty adds invaluable insight into how to configure an HP9000 or Integrity server for optimal performance. He leads you from the hardware level configuration to hard and soft partitions, through kernel tuning and much more. I'm sure you will find this book to be a valuable resource for all your HP-UX needs.

Exelent for Administrators - 2007-09-02
Reviewer Rating:
This book has all what you need for admins, and is great choice.

But for more information in HP-UX I recommend the book hp-ux 11i internals.

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