HP-UX System Administration Best Practices

[Amit Dixit_2]

Hi,
I am currently administering 11 HP-UX IA64
servers running 11.23, in a development
environment

I want to know the best practices to monitor,
maintain these system.

Eg: Developers on a daily basis ftp's
files from one host to another or from
their system to HP-UX host.

How to centralize and monitor user logins
How to secure shutdown and reboot ?
How to centralize installation depot for
all the systems.

Managing samba
All these services are either not
confiugred or in hapazard manner.
Please guide me

Thanks,
Amit

[Michael Tully]

Here's a valuable contribution.

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=178934

You can capture ftp logging through /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log. You could also turn on extra logging by adding a 'lv' to the /etc/inetd.conf line of ftp.
ftp stream tcp nowait root /usr/lbin/ftpd ftpd -lv

Centralise logins through LDAP/NIS/NIS+

Add entries to /etc/shutdown.allow or leave the file blank, which means only root can use shutdown.

[Michael Tully]

CIFS/Samba
http://docs.hp.com/hpux/onlinedocs/B8724-90044/B8724-90044.html

Software distributor
http://docs.hp.com/hpux/onlinedocs/B2355-90740/B2355-90740.html

[Tyagi]

Hi Amit Sir,


First Of all congrats for ur new job.
well where r u now a days ????



DUSHYANT TYAGI

[Bharat Katkar]

HI Amit,

Best practise is to read more and more and keep learning, sharing your knowledge.
Keep working hard, always look out for preventive measure.
HAve a indepth look at the Site below:
docs.hp.com
All the best.

Regards

[Petr Simik_1]

Just a few tips:

centralize install depot (and many other things) is done by ignite:
http://www.software.hp.com/products/IUX/download.html


you can centralise syslog
by including
*.debug @hostname
than you will centralize system logging from any hosts to one.

[john kingsley]

Check out this book:
"The Practice of System and Network Administration"
by Thomas A. Limoncelli, Christine Hogan

This book is not platform specific, but discusses best practices for system administration. I found this book extremely helpful.