topic Re: HPUX Essential Documentation in Operating System - HP-UX

HPUX Essential Documentation

hans_63 — Thu, 11 Nov 2004 05:59:33 GMT

Hi

What would we consider to be essential documentation for a HP unix environment (good practice).

Not manuals, I mean for example sysinfo output, what software is where, maintenance procedures, patching procedures etc.

Looking for good-practices.

Re: HPUX Essential Documentation

Pete Randall — Thu, 11 Nov 2004 06:10:36 GMT

Hans,

Install Ignite ( http://www.software.hp.com/products/IUX/index.html ), and use it's "print_manifest" command to get a summary of your system. If you don't have Ignite (and you should), you would want to save ioscan output, vgdisplay output, lanscan, netstat, etc.

Software should be located in /opt - period. Some people put things in /usr/local - I don't like to do that.

Maintenance and patching procedures, other than your own policies regarding when and where, come down to basically running swinstall and making sure you have a good backup first.

Pete

Re: HPUX Essential Documentation

Borislav Perkov — Thu, 11 Nov 2004 08:09:41 GMT

Hi Hans,
You can also install cfg2html utility from
http://come.to/cfg2html
and it can generate most of the things you needed, summary of your system. Procedures you can find when you install patches it is included in patches, etc. And finaly you can find all you need searching ITRC database.
Regards,
Borislav

Re: HPUX Essential Documentation

Robert-Jan Goossens — Thu, 11 Nov 2004 08:23:29 GMT

Hello Hans,

You could also use sysinfo.

# Run the sysinfo script
0 6 1 * * /usr/local/sysinfo/sysinfo -a -b -o /usr/tmp/`hostname`.sysinfo >/tmp/sysinfo.cron 2>&1

Regards,
Robert-Jan

Ps I attached the sysinfo.zip file.

Re: HPUX Essential Documentation

Geoff Wild — Thu, 11 Nov 2004 11:56:01 GMT

I use all of the above.

Set yourself up with a Intranet server to store your documentation...

We use Mambo:

http://www.mamboserver.com/

I works great for documentation.

If you can, DR that box - ie, have all the files rsync'ed to another server.

Another thing to look at - ISEE

http://www.software.hp.com/portal/swdepot/displayProductInfo.do?productNumber=U2512AA

It's also free and has the added benefit of documenting your server.

Rgds...Geoff