The business world has changed the way it looks. It's no longer brick and mortar buildings with file cabinets storing all of your corporate information. Now company information is kept online and data is stored on servers in your data center or in "the cloud"....
Solaris, a UNIX operating system developed by Sun, replaced SunOS in 1993. Sun is now owned by Oracle, and the system is sometimes referred to as Oracle/Solaris. The Solaris OS is known for its scalability and DTrace, a tracing framework that troubleshoots application and kernel...
IBM’s AIX software gives businesses a scalable, UNIX-based operating system. AIX software works on small servers and supercomputers handling the most complex workloads. Many businesses choose to run AIX software on IBM Power Systems for higher performance and reliability. When a problem occurs with AIX,...
OpenVMS stands for Open Virtual Memory System and it is a multi-user and multiprocessing virtual memory system. It is used for general purpose computing, time-sharing and batch and transaction processing. It is vital for large or small businesses and it is important to keep up...
If you do not have sendmail running on your system, then you will need to set it up. The ability to handle email is mandatory for reliable server operations. The most secure way to do this will be to use sendmail's"send only" mode. Your system...
Tips for HP-UX sysadmins Shell history timestamps The shell history is very useful except for one item: a timestamp. This is especially important for root user logins but also for DBAs and web maintenance workers. Fortunately there is an easy way to add...
nsquery returns a null value for Address: when used in a pipe or assigned to a variable. Environment: PARISC running HP-UX 11.31 Examples: ###### (no pipe = normal behavior) ####### # nsquery hosts atl1 Using "files [NOTFOUND=continue UNAVAIL=continue] dns" for the hosts policy. Searching /etc/hosts...
How to specify an outgoing LAN port Q: I need to specify an IP address to use when sending data out to another system. A: FTP does not have this capability, but ssh/scp does. The option is: -o BindAddress= For example: # scp –o BindAddress=10.11.12.13...
Q: I have a ghost report from 2 years ago that keeps getting reported by EMS. How do I clear it?. A: The easiest way is to remove the psm_data file. Then restart diagnostics with: # /etc/opt/resmon/lbin/monconfig (choose the K option to kill EMS) #...
Q: I need to document which disk was used to boot the currently running system. A: This is a bit tricky depending on the version of HP-UX, and whether it is using LVM or the less common choice, VxVM for disk volume management. Here are...
