Managing HP-UX Centrally

[Amit Dixit_2]

HI,
I am having 20 HP-UX server running, I want
to know the best and most effiecient way to
manage them centrally and dont want to buy
any commercial software for the same.

Thanks,
Amit

[Kusuma Sashidhar]

Hi Amit,

Exactly what "managing 20 srvrs" mean?

For user mngmt & n/w services you can use NIS with automounting.

For logs, you can direct all the machines to log in to one of the server (syslog)

you can configure sendmail and write some scripts for performance tuning and monitoring.

Regards,
Kusuma

[Steve Steel]

Hi

http://www.software.hp.com/portal/swdepot/displayProductInfo.do?productNumber=B8339BA3.0
overview

Servicecontrol manager 3.0
HP Servicecontrol Manager 3.0 is an easy-to-use multi-system management solution with web-enabled and command line interfaces. HP Servicecontrol Manager delivers multi-system access to all key system administration tools for fault monitoring, configuration, and workload management.


http://www.software.hp.com/portal/swdepot/searchProducts.do


Servicecontrol manager 3.0 $0.0
Servicecontrol Manager and SCR+DMI CD for HP-UX 11i *$0.0 information only

its free


Steve Steel

[Duncan Edmonstone]

Actually Service Control Manager has now been superseded by System Insight Manager, which can also manage Proliant/Windows systems, and Linux (I think maybe Tru64 and OpenVMS too):

http://h18013.www1.hp.com/products/servers/management/hpsim/index.html

This is also completely free...

HTH

Duncan

[Raj D.]

Hi Amit ,

HP Systems Insight Manager , [ Combines Insight Manager 7 + HP Toptools + HP Service Control Manager] .Can be used to manage large HP Systems.

OVERVIEW:
HP Systems Insight Manager combines the best of Insight Manager 7, HP Toptools, and HP Servicecontrol Manager to deliver hardware fault, asset, and configuration management for all of your HP Systems.

HP SIM can be easily extended to deliver rapid deployment and performance management for ProLiant Servers, or workload and partition management for Integrity and HP 9000 systems. It can be extended with management for HP clients, storage, printers and power products, and can manage non- HP platforms through industry standard management protocols.



And can be Downloaded from the following link , which can be used to manage large HP-Ux systems ,

Download SIM 4.1 :
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http://h18013.www1.hp.com/products/servers/management/hpsim/download.html

Hope this will help ..

Regards ,
Raj D.
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[Michael Tully]

Part of your problem will be that 10.20 is not supported anymore, particularly for commercial based software.
There are a number of script techniques that can be used to assist you. You could of course search the forums for the sysadmin favourite script threads for help, as these provide a gold mine.