HP-UX SAM Comparison with Tru64 UNIX SysMan

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1 HP-UX SAM Comparison with Tru64 UNIX SysMan Thomas Aussmann Consultant Proactive Services Hewlett-Packard GmbH 2004 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. The information contained herein is subject to change without notice Agenda Overview System Administration Manager (SAM) Restricted SAM Builder System Management Tool (SysMan) Division Of Privileges (DOP) More HP-UX Management Tools Resources

2 Overview System Administration Manager (SAM) Menu-driven tool to perform system administration Simplifies complex administration tasks Minimizes potential of errors Provides a built-in help utility Is less flexible than manual configuration Is not helpfull in some troubleshooting situations Overview System Administration Manager (SAM) Requires superuser privileges to execute Tools are grouped within functional areas Two user interfaces available X Window/Motif (GUI) Terminal User Interface (TUI)

3 Overview System Management Tool (SysMan) Menu driven system management tool Monitoring and managing single system and cluster Replicates configuration for cloning systems Tree type display, branches of management categories Must be root to perform most tasks Replaced common management commands Overview System Management Tool (SysMan) Sysman and associated tasks can be run on X Window (GUI) Terminal (CLI) Locally on a PC A Web Browser

4 System Administration Manager System Administration Manager SAM GUI with icons for functional areas

5 System Administration Manager SAM TUI with branched tree for areas System Administration Manager Menu bar with pull down menus available for Configuring views Select columns for selected objects Configure and use filter for selected columns and objects Save view as default Execute management tasks on selected objects List information from other object within same group Without leaving/closing window Avoids time consuming rescans Refresh lists, view log file

6 System Administration Manager System Administration Manager

7 System Administration Manager Restricted SAM Builder Grant non-root user access to selected functions Colours define permissions for objects or groups Red: no permission for an object or whole group Green: full access for all objects within a group Yellow: partial access to objects within a group Grant or revoke permissions for objects with Right mouse button (GUI) Actions pull down menu (GUI and TUI)

8 Restricted SAM Builder Restricted SAM Builder

9 Restricted SAM Builder Also available for terminal user interface Tru64 UNIX - SysMan SysMan Menu Task oriented system management tool SysMan Station GUI for monitoring and managing systems SysMan CLI Generic command line interface SysMan Cloning Saves certain SysMan configuration information Used to replicate and clone systems

10 Tru64 UNIX - SysMan Tru64 UNIX - SysMan

11 Tru64 UNIX - SysMan Tru64 UNIX - SysMan

12 Tru64 UNIX - SysMan Tru64 UNIX - SysMan

13 Tru64 UNIX - SysMan Division Of Privileges (DOP)

14 Division Of Privileges (DOP) More HP-UX Management Tools Support Tools Manager (stm) xstm (GUI), mstm (TUI) Underlying tools (info, update, verify, diagnostic, exerciser,...) xstm is similar to SyMan Station cstm scriptbased command line interface Similar to SysMan CLI config2html, freeware Similar to Tru64 UNIX sys_check utility

15 More HP-UX Management Tools More HP-UX Management Tools

16 More HP-UX Management Tools Resources HP-UX System and Network Administration Course Material Tru64 UNIX System Administration Guide

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