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Title: The HP-UX 11.x System Administration Handbook and Toolkit (2nd Edition) by Hewlett-Packard Professional Books, Martin Poniatowski ISBN: 0-13-012514-8 Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR Pub. Date: 18 June, 1999 Format: Textbook Binding Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $54.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.25 (12 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Hoped it would be better.
Comment: I bought this book hoping it would help me with my job and to some extent it has. The book presents material specific to HP-UX systems and seems written for intermediate to advanced users so someone, who is a novice like myself, may seem a bit overwhelmed. Experienced users may find that out of the 1147 pages they only reference a few. Most of the examples presented are basic, or are from the man pages, which to me, are not very helpful. The simple and sparse examples in the book, and the structure of the man pages, has never worked well with my personal learning style and because of that, I've often had to write my own documentation for myself, co-workers, and clients. There are some errors throughout the book and at least one page is scrambled. A co-worker bought a copy of this book from another source and it has the same errors. In my particular job, I have never found a need for the included CD, but others may find it useful. I would recommend looking at other books on HP-UX before buying this one.
Rating: 5
Summary: A very complete and detailed book
Comment: That prolific writer, Marty Poniatowski, has done a great job with his latest book "HP-UX 11.X SYSTEM ADMINISTRATION - Handbook and Toolkit". Marty describes in detail, the new features of HP-UX 11.0 and explains them with clarity. To give you an example of the detail, Marty uses up 140 pages of this 1150 page book covering SAM. You will learn all of SAM's features, including some poorly documented ones such as "restricted SAM". Mr. Poniatowski covers how to use SAM to manage device files as well as the command line approach. Especially useful, are the 150 pages devoted to NT/HP-UX interoperability. Salient topics covered include printer and file system sharing, and Microsoft Services for Unix. There is some excellent information on how to supplement your disaster recovery process and backup procedures using IGNITE/UX. The performance tools and benchmarking section is very thorough, with detailed examples and illustrations of MeasureWare and PerfView. I believe this book is an excellent addition to HP's fine education program, as he not only teaches the mechanics of doing something but also explains the "why's" of system administration. Some of these include...why audit?.....why is security important?.... why you want to configure a dump device. There was a lot of ergonomics that went into this publication. Besides being chock full of illustrations and examples, the fonts are large and easy on your eyes, while the included man pages are smaller, as to save space. A tear-off vi "cheat sheet" is included as well as a CD-ROM that has 60 day trial copies of EXCEED, MAESTRO, PERFVIEW, MEASUREWARE, and docs. The targeted audience is from the beginner to the near-guru. I've been working with HP-UX for over 12 years, and I've learned quite a bit from this publication.
Rating: 5
Summary: Landed me a job!
Comment: The HP-UX 11.x Sys Admin Handbook and Toolkit is the catalyst that landed me a HP-UX poistion at HP. In partiular the networking and HP-UX proprietary chapters were really easy to go through and well thought out and written. I came to HP with an edge and this but gave me that edge. In fact, I use this book at least once a week as a reference guide to help with work.
GREAT BOOK!
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Title: HP-UX Tuning and Performance: Concepts, Tools and Methods by Robert F. Sauers, Peter S. Weygant, Hewlett-Packard Professional Books ISBN: 0131027166 Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR Pub. Date: 07 July, 1999 List Price(USD): $49.93 |
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Title: HP-UX 11i Security by Chris Wong ISBN: 0130330620 Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR Pub. Date: 24 September, 2001 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
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Title: HP-UX 11.x System Administration "How To" Book (2nd Edition) by Marty Poniatowski, Hewlett-Packard Professional Books ISBN: 0130125156 Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR Pub. Date: 28 December, 1998 List Price(USD): $49.95 |
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Title: HP Certified: HP-UX System Administration by Rafeeq Ur Rehman ISBN: 0130183741 Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR Pub. Date: 31 May, 2000 List Price(USD): $59.99 |
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Title: UNIX Fault Management: A Guide for System Administrators by Brad Stone, Julie Symons, B. Stone ISBN: 013026525X Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR Pub. Date: 10 December, 1999 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
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