Favorite ITRC Forums threads

[Bill Hassell]

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

[Hakki Aydin Ucar · Accepted solution]

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

[James R. Ferguson]

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...

[Manix]

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

[Michael Leu]

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

[Steven E. Protter]

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

[Hakki Aydin Ucar]

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

[Pete Randall]

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

[Hakki Aydin Ucar]

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

[Duncan Edmonstone]

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

[V. Nyga]

@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 ...*

[Viktor Balogh]

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

[Hein van den Heuvel]

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

[Michael Steele_2]

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

[Ismail Azad]

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

[Mel Burslan]

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.

[Shibin_2]

Thanks for the great effort to bring this back :)