OSS tools on HP-UX

[joseph pareti]

Hi,

I am responding to a customer RFP on a HA solution for database that would fit HP-UX. However the customer has linux servers as well, and they need a common environment across linux and unix, so they would need gnu and other OSS tools on HP-UX as well. While some of these (e.g. Perl) are indeed available per
http://h21007.www2.hp.com/portal/site/dspp/menuitem.4e983fadbd4374752c24b83f8973a801/?required=subcat&subcat=Open+Source+Tools+%26+Contributed+Software

However, not all tools required by the customer seem to be available (see enclosure for more details on their requirements).

Any further help would be greatly appreciated.

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

Serviceguard runs on both Linux and HP-UX, the installation method is different, the binaries are different, but there is a common configuration methodology and language.

There is no open source high availability solution that I know of that runs on HP-UX

There might be something in sourceforge, but its not a widely known solution.

Serviceguard costs money but does the HA job well.

SEP

[joseph pareti]

Steve,

thanks for your reply; please note that my question is related to OSS tools and their availability under HP-UX (per enclosure). Regarding SG, we are going to propose it whichever way (Linux or UX)

Thanks again.

[James R. Ferguson · Accepted solution]

Hi:

Your tool requirements are rather easily met. Perl is installed by default on all HP-UX platforms. You can easily add modules from CPAN:

http://www.cpan.org/

The HP Software Depot offers the Internet Express bundles for 11.23 and 11.31 which allows you to add a variety of pre-built opensource tools:

http://h20392.www2.hp.com/portal/swdepot/displayProductInfo.do?productNumber=HPUXIEXP1131

http://h20392.www2.hp.com/portal/swdepot/displayProductInfo.do?productNumber=HPUXIEXP1123

Other free products can be found at this site too:

http://h20392.www2.hp.com/portal/swdepot/index.do

In addition, the HP-UX Porting and Archive Centre offers another vast repository of object and source. You will want to be sure to install 'lsof' and 'tusc' from here:

http://hpux.connect.org.uk/

Lastly, Merijn offers a number of tools, particulary Perl distributions from his own web site:

http://mirrors.develooper.com/hpux/

The standard HP-UX shell is the Posix shell as found in '/usr/bin/sh' or as '/sbin/sh' (statically linked) for root. It is essentially a superset of the Korn shell. The Korn88 shell is available as '/usr/bin/ksh' and the Korn93 variant as '/usr/dt/bin/dtksh'.

Regards!

...JRF...

[OldSchool]

note that there probably won't be any "automated dependency resolving" of the OSS tools.

and some of the tools noted have not been ported to hpux. at least for some, you are going to have to download / build yourself. while doable, it does add time / complexity.

note that in such an environment, you need to keep the GNU versions of the tools separate from the std HPUX distribution location(s) so that the sys admin account finds the std stuff first, so as not to muck up the system tools (i've seen gnu grep break SAM for instance).

then for the developers, put the gnu stuff first in the path.