topic Re: Favorite ITRC Forums threads in Operating System - HP-UX

Favorite ITRC Forums threads

Bill Hassell — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 15:34:11 GMT

To maintain the highest level of usable content in the new Communities, I would like Forums users to post your favorite thread URLs. They can be great answers, great explanations, great attachments. These URLs will then be pushed to the top for conversion so they will continue to function. Here's a one of my favorite topics:

Favorite sysadmin scripts
http://h30499.www3.hp.com/t5/System-Administration/favorite-sysadmin-scripts-you-always-keep-around-2/m-p/4846715#M394188

http://h30499.www3.hp.com/t5/System-Administration/favourite-sysadmin-scripts-you-always-keep-around/m-p/4844855#M393717

http://h30499.www3.hp.com/t5/System-Administration/favorite-sysadmin-scripts-you-always-keep-around-3/m-p/4848275#M394718

Re: Favorite ITRC Forums threads

Hakki Aydin Ucar — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 17:27:57 GMT

Thanks for the idea , even though lots of favorite this one is useful:

A Greasemonkey script for BSC documents
http://h30499.www3.hp.com/t5/HP-UX-Technical-Documentation/A-Greasemonkey-script-for-BSC-documents/m-p/4469289#M1203

Re: Favorite ITRC Forums threads

James R. Ferguson — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 15:30:51 GMT

Hi Bill:

There are your own contributions:

bdfmegs version 5.8 available
http://h30499.www3.hp.com/t5/System-Administration/bdfmegs-version-5-8-available/m-p/4673433#M381988

And the infamous one from Clay [which I believe is the last version posted]:

Date Calculation Failed
http://h30499.www3.hp.com/t5/General/Date-Calculation-Failed/m-p/4004412#M14965

And a number of fine scripts from VK2COT

ONE PROPOSAL AND ONE ENQUIRY: OAT script and Universe DB on HP-UX cluster
http://h30499.www3.hp.com/t5/System-Administration/ONE-PROPOSAL-AND-ONE-ENQUIRY-OAT-script-and-Universe-DB-on-HP-UX/m-p/4953099#M414059

SMALL GIFT TO UNIX COMMUNITY: Perl script for add batch users
http://h30499.www3.hp.com/t5/System-Administration/SMALL-GIFT-TO-UNIX-COMMUNITY-Perl-script-for-add-batch-users/m-p/5054149#M435368

SUMMARY: Three simple methods to mount ISO files on HP-UX 11.31
http://h30499.www3.hp.com/t5/System-Administration/SUMMARY-Three-simple-methods-to-mount-ISO-files-on-HP-UX-11-31/m-p/5201873#M463582

FREE PERL SCRIPT: Non-Interactive bulk root password change on HP-UX servers
http://h30499.www3.hp.com/t5/System-Administration/FREE-PERL-SCRIPT-Non-Interactive-bulk-root-password-change-on-HP/m-p/5239103#M469490

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: Favorite ITRC Forums threads

Manix — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 17:31:11 GMT

Thanks Bill,

few of my favorites are ..

HP-UX 11.31: how to rescan the new LUNs?

http://h30499.www3.hp.com/t5/System-Administration/How-do-you-determine-the-current-boot-path-device/m-p/4714249#M385318

How do you determine the current boot path/device

http://h30499.www3.hp.com/t5/System-Administration/How-do-you-determine-the-current-boot-path-device/m-p/4714249#M385318

what is use of EMC powr path in HPUX

http://h30499.www3.hp.com/t5/System-Administration/what-is-use-of-EMC-powr-path-in-HPUX/m-p/4703576#M384223

SecurePath or pvlinks
http://h30499.www3.hp.com/t5/LVM-and-VxVM/SecurePath-or-pvlinks/m-p/3677340#M25654

Changing cluster lock without stopping cluster...
http://h30499.www3.hp.com/t5/Serviceguard/Changing-cluster-lock-without-stopping-cluster/m-p/3120808#M6982

Many more to compile ..
Thanks
Manix

Re: Favorite ITRC Forums threads

Michael Leu — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 17:32:06 GMT

http://forums11.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/pageList.do?userId=BR667588&listType=response&forumId=1
...all of those posts are my favorites! :-)

Also there is a great big thread about the Firmware DVD:
> PXE Boot Image from an ISO
http://h30499.www3.hp.com/t5/ITRC-ProLiant-deployment/PXE-Boot-Image-from-an-ISO/m-p/3743865#M2932

Re: Favorite ITRC Forums threads

Steven E. Protter — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 17:34:47 GMT

Shalom Bill,

I have a number of favorites:

Password free ssh
http://h30499.www3.hp.com/t5/HP-UX-Technical-Documentation/Whitepaper-Integrate-Logins-with-HP-CIFS-Server-HP-UX-and/m-p/4355961#M1110

Kernel compiling procedures
http://h30499.www3.hp.com/t5/System-Administration/Compiling-Kernel-steps-procedure/m-p/3094059#M7278

Recipe for DVD based Ignite Recovery boot disk.

http://h30499.www3.hp.com/t5/System-Administration/Recipe-for-making-an-Ignite-Recovery-on-DVD-RW/m-p/3224900#M171001

See my favorites for many more.

SEP

Re: Favorite ITRC Forums threads

Hakki Aydin Ucar — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 15:36:27 GMT

On second thought, favorite sysadmin scripts you always keep around :
http://h30499.www3.hp.com/t5/System-Administration/favorite-sysadmin-scripts-you-always-keep-around-3/m-p/4848275#M394718

Re: Favorite ITRC Forums threads

Pete Randall — Tue, 03 May 2011 09:10:02 GMT

Hakki,

That's one of the 3 versions of "Favorite Sysadmin Threads" that Bill mentioned when he opened this thread. I don't think he's counting votes, but you never know.

Pete

Re: Favorite ITRC Forums threads

Hakki Aydin Ucar — Tue, 03 May 2011 11:47:28 GMT

sorry Bill , I missed out you already entered this link.

Re: Favorite ITRC Forums threads

Duncan Edmonstone — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 15:38:18 GMT

A great post on how to convert between different power measurements (kVA ot kW):

http://h30499.www3.hp.com/t5/HP-9000/KVA-vs-KW/m-p/2649373#M4988

worth preserving as great info, but also because it's one of the funniest threads we've ever had. Boy we miss Clay's input...

And one blowing my own trumpet - why you shouldn't do heavy sequential IO on system disks (and what to do about it if you really can't avoid it):

http://h30499.www3.hp.com/t5/General/IO-performance-puzzle/m-p/3977326#M128426

HTH

Duncan

Re: Favorite ITRC Forums threads

V. Nyga — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 15:55:37 GMT

@Duncan - KVA vs. KW was one of my farorites too :-)

MY favorite - U.SivaKumar's 'daring question':
https://forums11.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=186828
also it seems like it was cut very much (?)

Also interesting:
U.SivaKumar's 'greatest blunders':
http://h30499.www3.hp.com/t5/System-Administration/greatest-blunders/m-p/2857148#M95056

About UNIX history:
http://h30499.www3.hp.com/t5/General/What-is-UNIX/m-p/3112190#M81561

http://h30499.www3.hp.com/t5/General/The-Art-of-Unix-Programming/m-p/3242429#M91988

and about HP-UX license transfers:
http://h30499.www3.hp.com/t5/General/License-questions/m-p/5200174#M176270

Volkmar
*Good old times ...*

Re: Favorite ITRC Forums threads

Viktor Balogh — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 17:38:16 GMT

here are the posts which made me laugh, see the last posts in both topic:

I learned about the new "root is less than dirt" NFS option here, thanks to Dannis :)
http://h30499.www3.hp.com/t5/System-Administration/change-file-permission-on-nfs-mount-point/m-p/4484096#M362944

and here are some alternative methods from Steven to test a hammer :)
http://h30499.www3.hp.com/t5/System-Administration/Monitoring-if-ssh-works/m-p/4671930#M381863

Re: Favorite ITRC Forums threads

Hein van den Heuvel — Tue, 17 May 2011 17:40:33 GMT

I just stumbled into a good ITRC thread albeit not in the forums: The HPUX Handbook chapters:

http://www11.itrc.hp.com/service/rsb/rsbDisplay.do?fileName=highlights/hp-ux_sw_recovery.htm

You could consider those a threat to the forum threads, because if folks would just (know where to) read they'd be all set, not needing the forums.

Introduction PDF:

http://www11.itrc.hp.com/service/cki/docDisplay.do?docLocale=en&docId=emr_na-c00863981

A couple of bloobers (on 5/17/2011)

emr_na-c01037984 HPVM ---> displays intro instead
emr_na-c01037881 Network service - not found
emr_na-c01037913 LVM ---> displays intro instead

Hein

Re: Favorite ITRC Forums threads

Michael Steele_2 — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 17:39:52 GMT

How To Timestamp the KORN Shell History File

http://h30499.www3.hp.com/t5/Languages-and-Scripting/How-To-Timestamp-the-KORN-Shell-History-File/m-p/4763299#M29979

Missing in Action - A Clay Stephenson

http://h30499.www3.hp.com/t5/General/Missing-in-Action-A-Clay-Stephenson/m-p/4607901#M145019

Re: Favorite ITRC Forums threads

Ismail Azad — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 15:59:37 GMT

Greetings ITRCians,

Well here are some of my favorites...

Some striking differences pointed out about a cluster lock disk/ lock lun..

http://h30499.www3.hp.com/t5/Serviceguard/LockLun-vs-Lock-disk/m-p/4749600#M19308

Some of bill hassell's comments on the bit bucket and other special device files

http://h30499.www3.hp.com/t5/System-Administration/Test-write-performance-found-error/m-p/4743422#M387492

SEPs humorous technology story

http://h30499.www3.hp.com/t5/General/Humorous-technology-story/m-p/3779087#M121497

The act of destroying confidential data...

http://h30499.www3.hp.com/t5/System-Administration/Permanently-destroy-data-inside-failed-disk/m-p/5270101#M473193

And then Clay said holidays...

http://h30499.www3.hp.com/t5/System-Administration/Company-holidays/m-p/4063206#M306195

Regards
Ismail Azad

Re: Favorite ITRC Forums threads

Mel Burslan — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 23:05:33 GMT

Sorry to re-hash this old thread, but is there a master document or anything similar to that, showing a mapping for these favorite sysadmin scripts and whatever else marked as forum favorites ? The site search, together with being a smidgen better than the ITRC's legacy search engine, still leaves a lot to be desired. I have searched for some keywords that I know existed in the context of the same thread and found nothing.

Thanks in advance for all the help.

Re: Favorite ITRC Forums threads

Shibin_2 — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 06:46:10 GMT

Thanks for the great effort to bring this back :)