Needs Advice on HP-UX

[kapra]

Dear Sirs,

I am totally new to Unix world and have recently started working on HP-UX (I am straight out of university and now doing a Graduate Job).
The thing that worries me is that even after speding roughly 3 months now on live systems, I don't think I understand unix that much :(, I tend to forget commands… and specially when I read posts here on this forums, I don't think I make even 20% of it. At work I can resolve issues but that’s only because someone has documented it with procedures to solve it. If I get a totally new issue I have no clue how to troubleshoot it.

Earlier when at university, I started learning windows server products and in a very short period of time (2-4 months), I was feeling confident on solving problems, if not complex then atleast medium ones. But with unix I don't feel confident enough to solve simple issues…

Please help me with your suggesstions on what books/websites should I refer to improve my unix skills, I am really feeling tensed… I keep thinking is it just me? Shall I drop the idea of learning unix and revert to windows ? Please help me….

Thanks in advance,

Sumeet.


Yasin Amadmia

Graduate UNIX Technical Specialist
Network Rail UNIX Support Team
Managed Operations
Atos Origin
Nottingham, UK
Tel: +44 (0) 115 934 7851
Yasin.Amadmia@atosorigin.com
nrunix@atosorigin.com

[kapra]

xcv

[Raj D.]

Hi Sumit ,

If you have hp-ux or anyother unix system , try working and setting your hands on it.

Also if you hav any test system , start playing around and you can learn lot many things unknowingly.

Start from the scratch , with installation -->. Then configuration-->. Then go for troubleshooting.

Go through the good books ,and try to understand how things works. It will really help you troubleshooting and resolving problems.

Here is few good books:

1.
HP-UX 11i System Administration Handbook and Toolkit, Second Edition
By Marty Poniatowski

Publisher : Prentice Hall PTR
Pub Date : February 10, 2003
ISBN : 0-13-101883-3
Pages : 1440
Link: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0131018833/103-8194516-7258200?v=glance&n=283155&v=glance

2. HP-UX System Administration.
By: Rafeeq Ur Rehman.
Is also good for certification.

3. Also download books from hhtp:docs.hp.com
Sysadmin -I & II.

4. If you have HP sytem handle then you can get the "Software Recovery Handbook" that is having many real time example and good book. It is available in itrc ,under knowledge tree section.


Hope this will help you ,

Cheers,
Raj.

[kapra]

Thanks a lot Raj for your valuable help. I will definately have a look at these books and I take your advice of getting a test-system and having some hands on.

Thanks again.

Cheers,
- Sumeet.