New HP Smart Array controllers built into a HP Integrity machine are basically unconfigured. When running the EFI Shell, you will probably see the following message: HP Smart Array P800 Controller (version 7.22) 0 Logical … Read more
When a RAID controllers cache battery fails it is a benefit if you can gather the spare part number without any downtime. If your server is equipped with a HP SmartArray controller you can easily … Read more
If you want to create a screenshot of your HP-UX system and don’t have GIMP installed, you can easily create a X dump using the xwd commandos. This X dump can be converted into a … Read more
A couple of months ago I installed Red Hat Enterprise Linux on a dedicated hard drive of my HP Integrity RX2600 servers. Because the installation programm doesn’t support the native Management Processor console I had … Read more
Many administrators or IT enthusiasts still might know Common Desktop Environment (CDE) from old UNIX days. Introduced in 1993, it was Unix’s standard desktop for HP-UX, IBM AIX, Sun Solaris and Tru64 for more than … Read more
There are plenty of changes that have to be made after a fresh HP-UX 11i v1/v2 installation because of missing pre-configuration. For example: Name resolution By default, the file /etc/nsswitch.conf doesn’t exist and has to … Read more
Reading the World Wide Name (WWN) / World Wide Identifier (WWID) of a controller or a LUN is not always easy unter HP-UX – depending on the release. Especially under the older releases 11.11 and … Read more
A few days ago I wanted to use my HP C8000 workstation after a long time – but a defect changed my plans. Instead of showing the Boot Console Handler (BCH) the C8000 only presented … Read more
Depending on SSH client configuration and HP-UX release it is possible that the backspace control key (which is used for deleting erroneous inputs) is not working as expected. # mn^?^?man mn^?^?man: command not found A … Read more
Especially in older PA-RISC and Itanium machines HP Tachyon XL2 hostbus adapters can be found. If you want to know the associated HP part number (e.g. if you need to compare a support matrix) you … Read more
