HP-UX 11.0 Inheritance

[Alan Camp_1]

I just recently inherited administration duties on our company's Unix box.

Is there some information available that can quickly bring someone upto speed.

Initially I would like to know how to see what software is installed and
associated patches.

I thank you in advance for any help.

[Robert Gamble_3]

Welcome to the land of HP-UX !!! hehe

I would suggest to become familar with SAM, the System Administration Manager
included with HP-UX. Go into each of its Menus and sub-menus and see what each
will do for you. (I wouldn't necessarily execute the commands, just see what is
offered. There are warning pop-ups when executing most dangerous tasks). Once
you feel comfortable with SAM, learn what the command line equivalents of the
tasks you learned and performed.

Ask your management to allow you to attend a HP-UX System Admin class. See the
Training/Education link to the left for class descriptions, and online training
seminars.

This online forum you posted to is a great resource for asking questions. I
use this forum to learn from other's questions and experiences.

Good Luck!

[Robert Gamble_3]

To see what software and patches are installed use the command 'swlist'. See
the man page for all the different ways of using it, but you can try this for
starters: swlist -l product | more .

SAM can be run either graphically or in text-mode. /usr/sbin/sam

Good Luck!

[Gary O'dwyer]

G'day Alan,

The answer to your basic question is to use the swlist command. Try it with the
-product argument or check the man page.

Other commands that you may find useful to check out what you've got are:

ioscan (for hardware)
vgdisplay (for logical volume group details)
lvlnboot (for other logical volume group details)
model (server type)

Also have a look at /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log