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I am a brand spanking new dropped in my lap HP admin. I have some Unix
experience but no HP/UX. I am in for some fun fun times.

I am trying to find a daily task sheet for things I should be checking
regularly on the servers (log files, freespace, etc.).

Is there a resource like that out there somewhere?

Robert

On 11 Apr 2006 11:59:01 -0700, "Robert Hicks" <sigzero@gmail.com>
wrote:

>I am a brand spanking new dropped in my lap HP admin. I have some Unix
>experience but no HP/UX. I am in for some fun fun times.
>
>I am trying to find a daily task sheet for things I should be checking
>regularly on the servers (log files, freespace, etc.).
>
>Is there a resource like that out there somewhere?
>
>Robert

You already found this newsgroup. Good start ;-)

Make sure you can recover the server [or any server you're responsible
for] if it goes down. Take a look at Ignite-UX (free download or
install from App CD) and create a recovery image of the root volume
group eg with make_tape_recovery.

Ignite-UX is for system recovery, and not intended for backups. So how
are backups currently being made? Verify that the current backups are
readable and complete, or use something like fbackup to start making
backups.

Use bdf to check free space.

Watch system messages in /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log.

Run /usr/contrib/bin/check_patches tol look for any problems in the
system software configuration. Output is to /tmp/check_patches.out,
and swverify output (run by check_patches) is in
/var/adm/sw/swagent.log - take swverify output with a grain of salt as
warnings may or may not mean anything.

Hardware diagnostic logs are at /var/stm/logs/os/. The file ending in
*.cur is the current one. It's a binary file so use one of the stm
interfaces to review it - mstm (menu interface), xstm (X interface) or
cstm (command line interface). Or ask the Response Center for a copy
of declogtool (DECode LOG TOOL).


Happy Trails
Eric Stahl

Thanks Eric, luckily I have done some of those already. I have even
gone through a quarterly patching and ignite tape creation. : )

Backups are taken care of by the "enterprise" people via netbackup.

Cool...I will monitor those.

Robert