HP-UX Network Administration II

 

Course Description

This is a five-day lecture and lab course designed for experienced HP-UX network administrators. It concentrates on practical problems encountered in everyday administration of complex networks. This course is a follow-on to the HP-UX Network Administration I course, but it also is appropriate for experienced administrators of any UNIX network.

Student Performance Objectives

Introduction

• On completion of this module you will be able to do the following:

— Describe how this course relates to the HP-UX Network Administration I course.

— Discuss the topics that are covered in this course.

Serial Line Protocols

• Configure and maintain connections using the point-to-point protocol (PPP) and its associated daemon, pppd.

• Manage Internet protocol (IP) routing over PPP.

• Apply appropriate PPP security functions to a connection.

• Troubleshoot a PPP connection.

• Migrate serial line Internet protocol (SLIP) connections to PPP.

Troubleshooting of Common TCP/IP Problems

• Detect, characterize, and correct common TCP/IP faults.

• Use tracing and logging to identify faults that vary with system conditions.

Routing Tables and Dynamic Routing Protocols

• Upon completion of this module you will be able to do the following:

— Apply at least two different methods to the problem of maintaining routing tables.

— Determine the table maintenance method most appropriate to a given network environment.

Managing the NIS Environment

• Upon completion of this module you will be able to do the following:

— Discuss NIS maps and their function within NIS.

— Generate new NIS maps.

— Configure the automounter to use NIS maps.

NIS+ Administration

• Describe the purpose of NIS+ and its name space.

• Plan the NIS+ name space.

• Set up the NIS+ name space.

• Administer NIS+.

Network and NFS Performance

• Isolate and characterize network bottlenecks.

• Isolate and characterize NFS bottlenecks.

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol

• List the characteristics of the BOOTP protocol.

• Describe the features of the BOOTP protocol header.

• Understand BOOTP protocol vendor formats.

• Understand Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol.

• List DHCP client states.

• Understand DHCP architecture on HP-UX.

• Describe DHCP keywords.

• Configure DHCP client and server.

Configuring and Maintaining the Domain Name Service

• Describe DNS (Domain Name Service) features and operation.

• Explain how DNS resolves hostnames into IP addresses, and vice versa (reverse name resolution).

• Describe in detail how DNS data files are built and maintained.

• Set up a complete Internet domain.

Configuring sendmail

• List at least three different mail address formats.

• Describe the operation of SMTP.

• Make at least one valid modification to a ruleset in the sendmail.cf configuration file.

• Set up site hiding to support mail clients and servers.

• Configure forwarding.

• Configure a mail relay.