GUI interface on HP/UX

[Jorge Cocomess]

Greetings,

I am new with HP/UX system. Is there a GUI interface with these HP/UX system or everything done in command line? The current version we're runnning here is HP-UX B.11.11 U 9000/800.

What I need is to create file systems and give it a name. Not sure on where or how to go about this.

I have no problem doing this in the Linux world, but HP/UX is another question.

Would someone point me to where I need to go from here?

Thank you in advance.

Jorge

[Pedro Cirne]

Hi,

You may start with sam...login with root account and type:

#sam

Boa sorte!

Pedro

[Pete Randall]

How are you accessing this system? From a serial connected console (a dumb console)? From a PC via telnet? or null modem cable? Without knowing how you're getting there, it's hard to answer.


Pete

[Torsten.]

Some always do everything from the commandline, but you can also use "SAM".

Some time ago the system management homepage was introduced to hp-ux - you can do some admin task from there also.

It's up to you. If you want to learn about hp-ux, you should IMHO first try SAM, then focus on the command line (to see how things work).

[Paul McCleary]

Hi,

Do you use LVM on your Linux systems?

If so you should be quite at home with using LVM CLI on HP-UX.

Hth,
Paul

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom Jorge,

For system administration tasks what you are asking for is sam

sam has a X windows gui and a windowed, text based interface as well.

SEP

[SKR_1]

There is no GUI for HP-UX.

And for creating FS and naming them, you can use sam ( System administration Manager)

# sam

Disk and File systems
File syaytems

Thanks

SKR

[OFC_EDM]

There's also CDE (Common Desktop Environment) which you use along with and X windows connection.

[Grayh]

Using SAM to Install a Disk and Create a File System
Log on as root.
Run SAM.
Highlight Disks and File Systems-> and activate Open.
Highlight CD-ROM, Floppy, and Hard Disks and activate Open.
From the Actions menubar title in the Disk and File System Manager window, highlight and choose Add a Hard Disk Drive... .
Within the Add a Hard Disk Drive window, highlight and choose Select disk to add.
Within the Select disk to add window, highlight the disk you wish to add. You can identify it by its model number, select code and bus address. Activate OK.
Within the Add a Hard Disk Drive window, highlight and choose Set disk usage and options.
Within the Set disk usage and options window:
Activate the highlighted menu button. Highlight and choose the disk usage you prefer (File System, Swap, or File System and Swap).
In the Mount Directory: field, type in the name of the directory that will be the mount point for the file system on this disk. Press Return.
Turn on the check box labeled Create a new file system.
Several check box options appear below Create a new file system. Turn on or off any of these check box options as required by your new file system.
Activate OK.
You may need to change certain options, such as when to mount the disk and how its access permissions are set. If so, within the Add a Hard Disk Drive window, highlight and activate Modify Defaults, then within the dialog box, turn on the check boxes that apply.
Within the Add a Hard Disk Drive window, highlight and activate OK.
A Messages box appears, reporting the progress of the task. When the task if finished, activate OK.
Exit SAM by returning to the System Administration Manager window and activating Exit SAM.

Using Command Line:-
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Is this what you need?
This is an example of creating volume group vg01 & logical
volume/partion data.

Prepare for logical volume creation:

root:/> mkdir /dev/vg01
root:/> mknod /dev/vg01/group c 64 0x010000
root:/> pvcreate -f /dev/rdsk/c0t5d0
Physical volume "/dev/rdsk/c0t5d0" has been successfully created.

root:/> vgcreate vg01 /dev/dsk/c0t5d0
Volume group "/dev/vg01" has been successfully created.
Volume Group configuration for /dev/vg01 has been saved in
/etc/lvmconf/vg01.conf

root:/> vgdisplay -v vg01
root:/> lvcreate -L 100 -n data vg01
Logical volume "/dev/vg01/data" has been successfully created with
character device "/dev/vg01/rdata".

Create HFS file system

root:/> newfs -F hfs /dev/vg01/rdata

Create Journal or Veritas file system

root:/> newfs -F vxfs /dev/vg02/rdata

[Jorge Cocomess]

Gentlemen,

Would it be possible to use SAM with putty? I am using mostly putty for accessing my Linux servers these days. I could setup a telnet connection if needed.

Thanks so much for your responses.

Jorge

[Torsten.]

This makes not difference - of course you can use ssh (putty) even with X (putty -X).

[Tim Nelson]

Yes.

SAM comes with either a character/menu driven intface or a GUI based interface.

Simply try it.

/usr/sbin/sam

Tab and arrow keys to navigate, space or return to select.

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