topic Re: Best Sys Admin book in Operating System - HP-UX

Best Sys Admin book

Qamar_7 — Tue, 16 Dec 2003 06:11:42 GMT

Hello Friends,

would like to know a hp-ux system administartion book which covers advanced topics in detail and also it should be good from exam point of view.

Regds,
Qamar

Re: Best Sys Admin book

John Carr_2 — Tue, 16 Dec 2003 06:15:56 GMT

hpux 11i system administration
and

hpux certification

both from prentice hall details can be found at www.hp.com/hpbooks

:-)
John.

Re: Best Sys Admin book

Robert-Jan Goossens — Tue, 16 Dec 2003 06:17:26 GMT

Hi Qamar,

I think this one is the best.

http://www.hp.com/hpbooks/prentice/ptr_0130183741.html

You can download a sample rom the above link.

Kind regards,
Robert-Jan

Re: Best Sys Admin book

Pete Randall — Tue, 16 Dec 2003 06:22:36 GMT

Qamar,

Marty Poniatowski's "System Administration" books are good, though they might be a little simplistic for your needs. You might be better off with Rafeeq Rehman's "HP Certified" book. It's quite detailed and the only area it seems to be somewhat lacking in are networking (routing, subnetting and the like).

Pete

Re: Best Sys Admin book

John Carr_2 — Tue, 16 Dec 2003 06:27:36 GMT

Hi

also HPUX tuning and performance concept tools and methods by Robert F.Sauers and Peter S Weygant is very good.

To be honest all the hpbooks at prentice hall have proved to be very good for me.

also hpux 11i security by wong

:-)
JOhn.

Re: Best Sys Admin book

Karthik S S — Tue, 16 Dec 2003 09:01:48 GMT

If you don't prefer to pay for the books then you can start here,

http://docs.hp.com/hpux/pdf/B2355-90742.pdf

Also check out the index page of,

http://docs.hp.com

-Karthik S S

Re: Best Sys Admin book

Mark Greene_1 — Tue, 16 Dec 2003 09:15:07 GMT

A good non-HP specific book is "Unix Shell Programming" by Kochan and Wood:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/067248448X/qid=1071584020/sr=1-6/ref=sr_1_6/102-8051524-7024102?v=glance&s=books

mark

Re: Best Sys Admin book

doug mielke — Tue, 16 Dec 2003 09:48:28 GMT

No such list is complete without this masterpiece.

"The Magic Garden Explained" Goodheart and Cox
Prentice Hall

This book examines just a handful of topics, and is not HP/UX, but after reading, you'll truly understand the subject. This book is the route to true enlightenment, and by far my favorite tech book.

i.e. I never knew what STREAMS were doing until I read this. Now I'll never have another question.

Re: Best Sys Admin book

Geoff Wild — Tue, 16 Dec 2003 10:24:32 GMT

Of course HP Certified by Rafeeq Ur Rehman.

Another of my favs is:
DNS and Bind by Paul Albitz and Cricket Liu

Rgds...Geoff

Re: Best Sys Admin book

Hazem Mahmoud_3 — Tue, 16 Dec 2003 10:49:07 GMT

There are three that I use and find VERY helpful:

1. HP Certified by Rafeeq Ur Rehman
2. HP-UX 11i System Administration Handbook and Toolkit by Marty Poniatowski
3. HP-UX lli Security by Chris Wong

-Hazem

Re: Best Sys Admin book

I.Delic — Tue, 16 Dec 2003 14:00:48 GMT

Hi qamar,

You can find a lot of good staf online
This link is one them:

http://docs.hp.com/hpux/os/11i/index.html#System%20Administration
It is always fine to have a nice book te read before you go to sleep.

This one is one of my favorites:
HP-UX 11i System Administration Handbook and Toolkit by Marty Poniatowski

good luck

Idriz

Re: Best Sys Admin book

Michael Tully — Tue, 16 Dec 2003 14:10:40 GMT

If your planning on getting certified, then the book by Rafeeq Ur Rehman is the one your after. If you are just starting an in need of a boost up the tree, then the book by Marty Poniatowski would be my choice.

Re: Best Sys Admin book

Qamar_7 — Tue, 16 Dec 2003 22:49:28 GMT

hi all,

thnks much for all the valuable info you provided.
from all these replies, I have selected following two books,

1. HP Certified by Rafeeq Ur Rehman
2. HP-UX 11i System Administration Handbook and Toolkit by Marty Poniatowski

not very sure though if I made a good selection....

Now what I would like to know is if "HP Certified by Rafeeq Ur Rehman" is available for HP-UX 11i series? as some where in the forum I hv read that it is available for 10.20 only.

Kind Regds,

Qamar

Re: Best Sys Admin book

Michael Tully — Tue, 16 Dec 2003 22:53:07 GMT

No, it is really for 11/11i although there are not that many differences between the versions. Make note that any exam will be based upon the later version(s)

Re: Best Sys Admin book

Thomas Stanley_1 — Wed, 17 Dec 2003 15:16:58 GMT

You might also want to look at Essential System Administration by Aeleen Frisch. While this book doesn't deal specifically with HPUX, it does cover a lot of ground over several *nix flavored systems (HPUX included)

Re: Best Sys Admin book

Ralph Haefner — Wed, 17 Dec 2003 17:18:39 GMT

I hope this isn't too off-topic, but the best system administration book I've ever read is "The Practice of System and Network Administration" by Limoncelli and Hogan.

It doesn't cover the specifics of any particular technology, it covers the processes. It is at a higher level than day to day administration and covers bigger topics. There are tons of real world examples taken from the author's job experience. And every chapter includes a checklist type summary of things from the chapter that you should look at in your own environment.

The kind of topics it addresses are how do you design a service for performance and stability, how do you upgrade applications or services with minimum user impact, what strategies work best for handling network growth - stuff like that. There are even chapters on hiring and firing system administrators, how to handle your non-technical managers, tips for increasing job satisfaction, and so on.

While this certainly won't help you with your certification, it is fantastic at teaching you the kind of thing a senior admin or architect has to think about. When I went from the most junior member of an 8 person admin team to my next job as the more senior of just 2, it was invaluable in helping me adjust my thinking so I could see the big picture of what I had to do to manage my new Unix environment.

Re: Best Sys Admin book

Kent Ostby — Wed, 17 Dec 2003 21:29:00 GMT

Qamar --

If you havent already bought the books, check out half.com which is affiliated with ebay.com.

half.com sells used books and I found my HP-UX certification there for significantly less then what it was selling for new.

Best regards,

Kent M. Ostby