Unix Administration Tools

[Doug_85]

I currently use sam, top and glance to perform administrative functions. Are there any other gui or command line tools that would be useful to have?

Thanks,
Doug

[Sundar_7 · Accepted solution]

Ignite-ux - for system recovery management and to simplify installation of the systems

Measureware/Perfview - For performance management

System Control Manager - Gives you a centralized administration point for your servers.

procsize,kmeminfo,shminfo - useful while troubleshooting memory usage related issues

tusc - for tracing the system calls

vmstat- you should already have it - for virtual memory usuage monitoring

sar - System activity reporter.

cfg2html - download from net - to create a snapshot of the system configuration.

[Jeff Schussele]

Hi Doug,

You absolutely need lsof to track down file usage - get it here:

http://hpux.cs.utah.edu/hppd/hpux/Sysadmin/lsof-4.70/

Highly, highly recomended.

Rgds,
Jeff

[Kent Ostby]

While its not a tool per se, ps can provide some useful information.

ps -ef | cut -c42-80 | sort -nr

gives you the processes using the most CPU

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ps -ef | awk '{if (index($5,":")==0){print $0}}'

will give you a list of processes that have been running > 24 hours.

Best regards,

Kent M. Ostby

[Steven E. Protter]

You are the tool.

Some things, especially if you end up working in single user mode, you have no gui tools at all. You have commands only.

You will need to learn the LVM commands, at least the basics to operate in that manner.

On a more question answering note, I am attaching a set of sar scripts for performance monitoring. Don't leave your system without them.

Also, Bill McNAmara has a 3 part series of articles on scripst no sysadmin should ever be without. Click on his name at the main forums page and you will see it listed on his threads.

SEP

[Hemanth Gurunath Basrur]

Hello Doug,

Also, refer to the foll. link on various system management tools:

http://h71028.www7.hp.com/enterprise/cache/4225-0-0-225-121.aspx

Regards,
Hemanth

[Olivier Decorse]

Hi,
if you have to manage the hardware, don't forget :
- stm (with gui),
- EMS (hardware monitor with alert through mail, snmp or syslog),
- ioscan (inside shell scripts).

If you have to share files or printers between unix and windows :
- SWAT (via internet navigator on http://localhost:901)

For security :
- HIDS (gui) will supervise any security problem.

Olivier.

[Pete Randall]

To review you system's security readiness - Bastille:

http://www.software.hp.com/portal/swdepot/displayProductInfo.do?productNumber=B6849AA


Pete

[R. Sri Ram Kishore_1]

Hi Doug,

Take a look at this thread:
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=602106

HTH.

Regards,
Sri Ram

[Keith Bevan_1]

Doug,

Have a look at the following products :-

UPM (Unix Privilege Manager)
URM (Unix Resource Manager)

Both available at :-

http://www.passgo.com/products/index.shtml

Keith

[Bill Hassell]

All my systems get both lsof (to show open files and network sockets) and sudo (to distribute root privileges). Ignite/UX is an imperative for all HP-UX systems and as mantioned, Bastille is useful as a teaching configuration guide for security. Along with Bastille, SSH is the tool of choice for secure communications.