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Virtual Partitions (vPars) can take almost any HP 9000 and turn it into many virtual computers. These virtual computers can each be running their own instance of HP-UX and associated applications simultaneously.

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• Preface(p. xix)
• About Virtual Partitions(p. xix)
• Virtual Partitions (vPars) Background(p. xxi)
• Uses of Virtual Partitions(p. xxiii)
• Organization of the Book(p. xxiv)
• Relevant URLs(p. xxiv)
• Manual Pages Supplied with the Book(p. xxvi)
• Acknowledgments(p. xxviii)
• Duane Zitzner(p. xxviii)
• The Author - Marty Poniatowski(p. xxviii)
• Francis Huang - vPars Expert and Reviewer(p. xxviii)
• Geff Blaha - vPars Expert and Reviewer(p. xxix)
• Hayden Brown - vPars Expert(p. xxix)
• Conventions Used in the Book(p. xxxi)
• Chapter 1 Installing HP-UX 11i and Virtual Partitions Software(p. 1)
• Introduction to Virtual Partitions(p. 1)
• Selecting the Disks on Which to the Load Software(p. 4)
• Loading the Software(p. 6)
• Loading the Software Required for Virtual Partitions(p. 7)
• Non-vPars-Specific Section of Chapter - Install HP-UX 11i Operating Environment(p. 13)
• Booting the System and "Advanced Installation"(p. 14)
• Setting the System Parameters after Booting(p. 30)
• Software Distributor Example(p. 34)
• Loading Patches(p. 42)
• Software Distributor Background(p. 48)
• Installing and Updating Software (Command Line or GUI)(p. 49)
• Copying Software to a Depot (Command Line or GUI)(p. 49)
• Removing Software from a System (Command Line or GUI)(p. 50)
• List Information about Installation Software(p. 50)
• Configure Installed Software(p. 50)
• Verify Software(p. 50)
• Package Software That Can Later Be Installed (Local Sys Only)(p. 50)
• Control Access to Software Distributor Objects(p. 51)
• Modify Information about Loaded Software (Local System Only)(p. 51)
• Register or Unregister a Depot(p. 51)
• Manage Jobs (Command Line or GUI, this is SD-OV only)(p. 51)
• Listing the Software(p. 52)
• Manual Pages for Commands Used in Chapter 1(p. 57)
• "sw" command summaries(p. 58)
• Chapter 2 Working With vPars(p. 65)
• Preparing to Create Virtual Partitions(p. 65)
• Virtual Partitions Command Summary(p. 69)
• Steps to Create Virtual Partitions(p. 74)
• 1) Load HP-UX 11i(p. 77)
• 2) Load the Virtual Partitions Application Software(p. 78)
• 3) Gather the System Component and Hardware Paths(p. 79)
• 4) List the Components of the Virtual Partitions(p. 83)
• 5) Virtual Partition Kernel-Related Work(p. 90)
• 6) Create the First Virtual Partition(p. 94)
• 7) Boot the First Virtual Partition(p. 95)
• 8) Create the Second Virtual Partition(p. 98)
• 9) Boot the Second Virtual Partition(p. 100)
• 10) Modify the Virtual Partition(p. 104)
• Virtual Partition Dump Files(p. 109)
• Summary(p. 110)
• Chapter 3 Booting and vPars(p. 113)
• Background(p. 113)
• Virtual Partition Boot Process Overview(p. 114)
• Virtual Partition Boot States(p. 123)
• setboot Command and vPars(p. 125)
• Other Boot Topics(p. 126)
• Non-vPars-Specific Section of Chapter: Boot Process Overview(p. 127)
• Boot Console Handler (BCH) & Processor Dependent Code (PDC)(p. 129)
• PDC Commands(p. 141)
• Initial System Load(p. 143)
• HPUX Secondary System Loader (hpux)(p. 146)
• Secure Web Console(p. 149)
• Connecting and Configuring the Secure Web Console(p. 150)
• Configuring the Guardian Service Processor (GSP)(p. 161)
• Manual Pages for Commands Used in Chapter 3(p. 171)
• boot(p. 172)
• hpux(p. 173)
• isl(p. 185)
• pdc(p. 188)
• Chapter 4 Building an HP-UX Kernel(p. 191)
• Virtual Partitions and the Kernel(p. 191)
• Virtual Partition Kernel-Related Work(p. 192)
• Devices and Virtual Partitions(p. 200)
• Non-vPar Specific Section of Chapter - Modify and Build an HP-UX Kernel(p. 209)
• Dynamically Loadable Kernel Modules(p. 209)
• Building a Kernel(p. 210)
• Description of Kernel Parameters(p. 222)
• Kernel Parameters(p. 222)
• Overview of Select Kernel Parameters(p. 304)
• Chapter 5 Virtual Partitions and Devices(p. 311)
• Background on Virtual Partitions and Devices(p. 311)
• Virtual Partitions and Local Bus Adapters(p. 313)
• Virtual Partitions and Processors(p. 318)
• Virtual Partitions and Memory(p. 323)
• Virtual Partitions and LAN(p. 327)
• Virtual Partitions and the Console(p. 329)
• Adding and Removing Devices in Virtual Partitions(p. 333)
• Non-vPar Specific Section of Chapter - Background on Device Files and Peripherals(p. 339)
• Device Files in HP-UX 11i(p. 339)
• An Example of Adding a Peripheral(p. 350)
• Memory Management - Kind of Related to Device Files(p. 353)
• Cache Memory(p. 354)
• Checking Available RAM(p. 354)
• Managing Cache and RAM(p. 357)
• Virtual Memory(p. 358)
• Swap(p. 358)
• Chapter 6 Users and Groups(p. 361)
• Virtual Partitions and Users(p. 361)
• Individual User Setup(p. 365)
• Application Users(p. 366)
• Non-vPar-Specific Section of Chapter - Set Up Users and Groups(p. 367)
• Assigning Users to Groups(p. 370)
• NIS for Managing Users(p. 373)
• What Does NIS Manage?(p. 373)
• How Do I Plan For NIS?(p. 374)
• How Do I Configure an NIS Master Or Slave Server?(p. 375)
• How Do I Configure an NIS Client?(p. 376)
• How Do I Maintain My NIS Environment?(p. 377)
• Chapter 7 Backup(p. 379)
• Backup of Virtual Partitions(p. 379)
• Backup to a Tape Drive on the Local Virtual Partition(p. 380)
• Backup to a Tape Drive on a Different Local Virtual Partition(p. 382)
• Backup of Virtual Partitions Using SAM(p. 385)
• Non-vPar-Specific Section of Chapter - Built-in Backup Programs(p. 390)
• tar(p. 392)
• cpio(p. 397)
• fbackup and frecover(p. 403)
• dd(p. 409)
• dump and restore(p. 411)
• Chapter 8 System Startup and Shutdown Scripts(p. 415)
• System Startup and Shutdown Scripts in Virtual Partitions(p. 415)
• Application Startup in Virtual Partitions(p. 415)
• Virtual Partition Startup(p. 419)
• Non-vPar Specific-Section of Chapter - Introduction(p. 422)
• System Startup and Shutdown Scripts(p. 422)
• System Shutdown(p. 431)
• Chapter 9 File Systems(p. 435)
• Virtual Partition File Systems(p. 435)
• Separate vPars File Systems(p. 435)
• Non-vPar-Specific Section of Chapter: Introduction(p. 441)
• Veritas Volume Manager(p. 441)
• Logical Volume Manager Background(p. 441)
• Logical Volume Manager Terms(p. 442)
• Disk Mirroring(p. 446)
• Logical Volume Manager Commands(p. 447)
• Adding Disks(p. 457)
• Commonly Used LVM Procedures(p. 471)
• Reconfiguring Some Disks: An Example of Using Some Logical Volume Commands(p. 477)
• Why Change?(p. 478)
• Optional Procedure to Exchange Dump Priorities(p. 501)
• HP VERITAS Volume Manager(p. 505)
• HP VERITAS Volume Manager Setup(p. 505)
• Volume Manager Storage Administrator(p. 510)
• HP VERITAS Volume Manager Mirroring and Striping(p. 520)
• Some Additional File-System-Related Commands(p. 528)
• Viewing File Systems with bdf(p. 528)
• File System Maintenance with fsck(p. 529)
• Initializing with mediainit(p. 532)
• Chapter 10 Ignite-UX(p. 535)
• Ignite-UX Bootable Recovery Achive for Virtual Partitions(p. 535)
• Creating Bootable Recovery Archives for vPars(p. 536)
• Using Ignite-UX GUI to Create a vPar Archive(p. 536)
• Virtual Partition Recovery(p. 544)
• Virtual Partition Installation with Ignite-UX(p. 546)
• Ignite-UX and vPars Cookbook(p. 546)
• Non-vPar-Specific Section of Chapter: Ignite-UX Overview(p. 551)
• Set up Server with Depots and Install Clients(p. 552)
• Run Ignite-UX GUI(p. 555)
• System Recovery with Ignite-UX(p. 570)
• An Example of Creating a Bootable System Recovery Tape(p. 571)
• Running the check_recovery Command(p. 576)
• Manual Pages for Commands Used in Chapter 10(p. 580)
• make_net_recovery(p. 581)
• Chapter 11 System Administration Manager (SAM)(p. 591)
• SAM and Virtual Partitions(p. 591)
• Virtual Partitions(p. 592)
• Backup Using SAM(p. 600)
• Users and SAM(p. 605)
• ServiceControl Manager (SCM) and Virtual Partitions(p. 607)
• System Configuration Repository (SCR) and Virtual Partitions(p. 608)
• Using SCR(p. 608)
• Non-vPar-Specific Section of Chapter: SAM Overview(p. 615)
• Running and Using SAM as Superuser(p. 616)
• Author's Disclaimer: SAM is a Moving Target(p. 622)
• Running Restricted SAM Builder(p. 623)
• Initially Setting User Privileges(p. 623)
• Accounts for Users and Groups(p. 625)
• Adding a User(p. 628)
• Adding a Group(p. 632)
• Auditing and Security(p. 634)
• Audited Events and Audited System Calls(p. 636)
• Audited Users(p. 636)
• Authenticated Commands(p. 636)
• System Security Policies(p. 637)
• Backup and Recovery(p. 638)
• Scheduling a Backup(p. 639)
• Interactive Backup and Recovery(p. 644)
• Performing a Restore(p. 645)
• Clusters(p. 648)
• Disks and File Systems(p. 649)
• Disk Devices(p. 651)
• File Systems(p. 655)
• Logical Volumes(p. 657)
• Swap(p. 659)
• Volume Groups(p. 659)
• Display(p. 660)
• Kernel Configuration(p. 660)
• Configurable Parameters(p. 663)
• Drivers(p. 669)
• Dump Devices(p. 670)
• Subsystems(p. 671)
• Networking and Communications(p. 672)
• Bootable Devices(p. 676)
• DNS (BIND)(p. 678)
• Hosts(p. 679)
• NIS(p. 679)
• NIS+(p. 679)
• Name Service Switch(p. 680)
• Network Interface Cards(p. 680)
• Network Services(p. 681)
• Network File Systems(p. 682)
• System Access(p. 684)
• Partition Manager(p. 686)
• Performance Monitors(p. 686)
• Disk and Terminal Activity(p. 688)
• GlancePlus(p. 690)
• Inter-Process Communication Facility Status(p. 690)
• Processes with Highest CPU Usage(p. 690)
• System Activity(p. 690)
• System Properties(p. 691)
• Virtual Memory Activity(p. 691)
• Peripheral Devices(p. 693)
• Cards(p. 695)
• Device List(p. 696)
• Tape Drives(p. 698)
• Terminals and Modems(p. 699)
• Uninterruptable Power Supplies(p. 700)
• Printers and Plotters(p. 700)
• Print Requests(p. 702)
• Printers and Plotters(p. 703)
• Save/Restore Spooler Configuration(p. 705)
• Process Management(p. 706)
• Process Control(p. 707)
• Scheduling Cron Jobs(p. 710)
• Routine Tasks(p. 711)
• Backup and Recovery(p. 712)
• Selective File Removal(p. 713)
• System Log Files(p. 715)
• System Shutdown(p. 717)
• Run SAM on Remote Systems(p. 718)
• Software Management(p. 718)
• Time(p. 721)
• NFS Diskless Concepts(p. 721)
• ServiceControl Manager (SCM) Overview(p. 724)
• Chapter 12 Performance Topics(p. 733)
• Performance and Virtual Partitions(p. 733)
• sar and ioscan with Disks(p. 734)
• uptime(p. 735)
• Networking(p. 736)
• HP GlancePlus/UX(p. 739)
• Non-vPar-Specific Section of Chapter: Introduction(p. 742)
• Standard UNIX Commands(p. 742)
• I/O and CPU Statistics with iostat(p. 743)
• Virtual Memory Statistics with vmstat(p. 747)
• Network Statistics with netstat(p. 749)
• Checking Processes with ps(p. 754)
• Killing a Process(p. 760)
• Signals(p. 760)
• Showing Remote Mounts with showmount(p. 762)
• Showing System Swap(p. 764)
• sar: The System Activity Reporter(p. 766)
• Using timex to Analyze a Command(p. 772)
• More Advanced and Graphical Performance Tools(p. 774)
• HP GlancePlus/UX(p. 779)
• Process List Description(p. 782)
• CPU Report Screen Description(p. 787)
• Memory Report Screen Description(p. 790)
• Disk Report Screen Description(p. 793)
• GlancePlus Summary(p. 795)
• Using VantagePoint Performance Agent to Identify Bottlenecks(p. 797)
• HP VantagePoint Performance Agent and HP VantagePoint Performance Analyzer/UX(p. 801)
• Chapter 13 Networking(p. 815)
• Virtual Partitions and Networking(p. 815)
• Virtual Partition Host-Related Information(p. 816)
• Using the Two Networking Cards With Telnet(p. 825)
• Non-vPar-Specific Section of Chapter: Networking Background(p. 827)
• UNIX Networking(p. 828)
• An Overview of IEEE802.3, TCP/IP(p. 829)
• Physical Layer(p. 830)
• Link Layer(p. 830)
• Network Layer(p. 831)
• Transport Layer(p. 832)
• Internet Protocol (IP) Addressing(p. 832)
• Subnet Mask(p. 835)
• Using Networking(p. 839)
• ARPA Services (Communication among Systems w/ Different OS)(p. 840)
• Berkeley Commands (Communication between UNIX Systems)(p. 843)
• Host Name Mapping(p. 846)
• /etc/hosts(p. 847)
• /etc/hosts.equiv(p. 848)
• /.rhosts(p. 849)
• Network File System (NFS)(p. 849)
• Set Up DNS Servers Using BIND 8.1.2 on HP-UX 11.0 and 11i(p. 852)
• A Word on Slave (Secondary) Name Servers(p. 862)
• A Word on Cache-Only Name Servers(p. 864)
• A Final Word on Name Server Setup(p. 865)
• Other Networking Commands and Setup(p. 866)
• ping(p. 867)
• netstat(p. 870)
• route(p. 876)
• ifconfig(p. 877)
• rpcinfo(p. 878)
• arp(p. 880)
• lanadmin(p. 880)
• ndd(p. 882)
• nslookup(p. 882)
• Chapter 14 Common Desktop Environment(p. 885)
• CDE and Virtual Partitions(p. 885)
• Custom Greeting for Different Virtual Partitions(p. 886)
• Menu Picks for Virtual Partitions(p. 887)
• Non-vPars-Specific Part of Chapter: Introduction(p. 891)
• Why a Graphical User Interface (GUI)?(p. 892)
• CDE Basics(p. 894)
• CDE on AIX and HP-UX(p. 896)
• CDE on Solaris(p. 899)
• Customizing CDE(p. 902)
• Making Changes Using Style Manager(p. 903)
• Backdrop and Colors(p. 903)
• Adding Objects to or Removing Objects from the Front Panel(p. 904)
• Changing the Front Panel in Other Ways(p. 906)
• Modifying Things in Slide-up Subpanels(p. 908)
• Front Panel Animation(p. 910)
• Adding Items to the Workspace Menu(p. 911)
• Creating Control Buttons, Actions, and File Types(p. 914)
• Using Different Fonts(p. 923)
• Changing the Login Picture(p. 925)
• CDE - Advanced Topics(p. 926)
• The X Window System(p. 926)
• Motif(p. 927)
• CDE(p. 927)
• X, Motif, and CDE Configuration Files(p. 928)
• X Configuration Files(p. 929)
• Motif Configuration Files(p. 929)
• CDE Configuration Files(p. 930)
• CDE Configuration File Locations(p. 938)
• How Configuration Files Play Together(p. 939)
• Specifying Appearance and Behavior(p. 941)
• The Sequence of Events When CDE Starts(p. 942)
• CDE and Performance(p. 943)
• Tactics for Better Performance(p. 943)
• Conclusion(p. 945)
• Appendix A Virtual Partitions Online Manual Pages(p. 947)
• Man Pages(p. 947)
• Appendix B Superdome Virtual Partitions(p. 985)
• Superdome vPars(p. 985)
• The Hierarchy of Partitions(p. 986)
• nPartition and Superdome Background(p. 987)
• Working With nPartitions and vPars(p. 988)
• Defining and Configuring the Four vPars(p. 991)
• The Console(p. 994)
• Index(p. 999)

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MARTY PONIATOWSKI has been working with UNIX since 1981. For the past fifteen years, he has been a System Engineer with Hewlett-Packard in the New York area, working with customers in many industries. He has written twelve Prentice Hall books on UNIX-related topics all published by Prentice Hall PTR, including HP-UX 11i System Administration Handbook and Toolkit .