HP-UX

Safe and Powerful: Security in HP-UX System Management Homepage (SMH)

HP System Management Homepage (SMH) is the single system management solution for managing HP-UX 11i. It is a web-based tool and uses the Apache web server. SMH is also available for Linux, and Microsoft Windows systems. The key features of SMH are its system administration capabilities and its ability to display details of hardware attributes. The SMH solution provides an easy-to-use interface for displaying hardware fault and status monitoring, system thresholds, diagnostics, and software version control for an individual server by aggregating the data from HP web-based agents and management utilities.

Ensuring Your HP-UX Build Environment Is Up-to-Date

Software vendors will typically only update the HP-UX build environment of their application at certain times - for example, prior to the next major application release. This note provides information that will help software vendors to get an up-to-date HP-UX build environment. This paper covers both HP-UX on HP 9000 systems and HP-UX on Integrity systems.

Going Green With HP-UX 11i v3: Power Management Techniques to Reduce Costs and Environmental Impacts

HP-UX 11i v3 provides new capabilities to reduce the amount of power used by idle or partially idle servers. This paper describes some of the ways one can make use of HP-UX to save power and cooling expense while reducing datacenter's environmental footprint. Using the processor-based power savings features is a low overhead, low maintenance way to reduce power requirements. These features are designed to be easy to deploy too many systems and will not usually require further monitoring to adapt to changing workload demands on servers.

Simplifying Single-System Management on HP-UX 11i - HP System Management Homepage (HP SMH)

HP System Management Homepage (HP SMH) is the single system management solution for managing HP-UX 11i. HP SMH is also available for Linux, and Microsoft Windows systems. This paper provides an overview of the simplified single system management solution introduced to manage an HP-UX system. The paper describes the enhanced web-based capabilities that the tool provides.

Transitioning SAP Environments From HP 9000 Servers Running HP-UX 11i to HP Integrity Servers Running HP-UX 11i

To take advantage of the higher processing power and new architecture of the Intel Itanium processor, application binaries are recompiled for HP-UX on HP Integrity servers. HP-UX source code compatibility between PA-RISC and Itanium has enabled a simple and safe transition procedure. SAP applications and the backend database, are clearly mission-performance critical. Both have therefore been re-compiled to take advantage of Itanium's Explicitly Parallel Instruction Computing (EPIC) technology developed by HP. Binary compatibility between HP-UX on PA-RISC and HP-UX on Itanium servers is unique to HP and gives the customer peace of mind that the transition to Integrity will be smooth. Based on this binary compatibility, data files used on the PA-RISC system can also be used on the Itanium-based Integrity machine.

Managing Your HP-UX Inventory With HP SIM

HP Systems Insight Manager (HP SIM) is a robust, full-featured infrastructure management tool. This paper discusses how to use HP SIM for managing inventory data from the HP-UX servers. This paper discuses configuring the managed servers, configuring the Central Management Server (CMS), collecting inventory data, mining inventory data. Experts in scripting and HP-UX Software Distributor commands can take advantage of the Appendix, where it is explained how to use HP SIM to make managed server setup easier. This paper assumes that HP SIM, and all required components, are installed and functional on the CMS.

Improving Program Startup With Fastbind : [HP-UX Linker] White Paper

On HP-UX Integrity, all application programs are linked to shared libraries. During the startup of each such program, the dynamic loader spends a significant amount of time in searching symbols. This paper describes a way to avoid this cost and improve program startup performance using the fastbind and prebind tools.

IBM WebSphere MQ V7 Performance Report on HP-UX 11i V3 and HP Integrity Servers

IBM WebSphere MQ V7.0 on HP-UX has similar performance characteristics to WebSphere MQ V6. This paper shows the throughput for Local, Client and Distributed Queuing using 2 kilobyte message sizes with non-persistent non-trusted (NP_NT), non-persistent trusted (NP) and persistent message (PM) types. Larger message sizes of 20K, 200K and 2M sizes are also provided. A single cell (4p/8c) of an HP Integrity Superdome SD64B server, running HP-UX 11i v3 operating system, was used for the WebSphere MQ server system under test. The results from 4 and 8 cores, tuned and un-tuned system configurations were measured and analyzed.

Managing Entitlements in a Windows Environment

When you grant a user access to critical resources, you're managing entitlements. Same goes for revoking access - but how can you be sure you've revoked ALL the access the user has?

In this white paper, see how managing entitlements is the key to securing your network resources, and how you can simply and confidently complete this process. Learn about:

• Assigning - and revoking -- user access
• Dealing with entitlement management challenges in Windows
• Understanding the details behind resource management
• ...and much more.

LVM New Features in HP-UX 11i v3

In HP-UX 11i v3 (11 .31), LVM delivers significant performance, scalability, usability, and availability enhancements. After the initial release of HP-UX 11i v3 in February 2007, there have been three updates of HP-UX 11i v3: September 2007, March 2008, and September 2008. This paper lists all the new LVM features in the initial release and the three updates of HP-UX 11i v3.