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:

1HP Smart Array P800 Controller     (version 7.22)  0 Logical Drives
21785-Drive Array Not Configured
3     Run Smart Array Configuration Utility
4...
5 …

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 JPG file (or some other picture format) on another machine using XnView.

After executing the xwd command simply click on the window for the …

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 11.23 additional tools are required to get the requested information - this is much easier under 11.31.

Controller …

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 be created and modified using a template. If this isn't done, neither XF86 nor the sw utility …

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 a black screen. Even the serial interface was not working at all - no good sign.

I had a deepter look at the issue and unplugged all …

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.

1# mn^?^?man
2mn^?^?man: command not found

A possibility is to modify the configuraton of PuTTy - but this requires resetting the current …

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 might have used ioscan - and found nothing:

1# ioscan -funC fc
2Class     I  H/W Path  Driver S/W State   H/W Type …

Especially on new installed systems it is possible  that the manpage database wasn't initialized, yet. You can identify this if whatis / man -k doesn't "find anything":

1# man -k man
2man: nothing appropriate

Under HP-UX the index is created using the following command:

1# catman -m

Under RHEL there is a tool …