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Summary: A true HP-UX 11i Handbook
Comment: I used this handbook to get a better picture of HP-UX system administration and as supplement to the CSA exam study guide.. In fact this book helped me well in my preparation for the HP-UX CSA exam. It covers wide range of topics related to system administration. The book is heavy but very resourceful. I like it and I am keeping it aroung for a while.
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Summary: too little for the money
Comment: It is a pretty good book, but poorly indexed. Has valuable tips if you are not experienced, but most of the data found here can be found by searching the internet. For half the price, it would be a good book
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Summary: The best HP-UX book, but not well edited
Comment: There are dozens of good UNIX administration books; this is the only one that covers comprehensively the feature set of HP/UX 11i. For that reason, you should definitely pick it up if you have HP UNIX machines to manage. It covers specific HP stuff well: SAM, the boot process, the backup utilities, virtual partitions, etc. The information is accurate and the overall style is easy to read. I think it's the most complete books on a given operating system I can think of: most authors/publishers would have divided the information here into at least two or three books: one for the basic UNIX stuff, one for regular HP sysadmin, and one for advanced features found in high-end HP servers. This book has all three.It does fall down on occasion in terms of its editing. Overall, I tend not to trust the editing quality of books published by the company that produces the software (they don't exercise the editorial scrutiny because they want more books about their products), and this book is no exception. Sometimes, it strangely talks about things that aren't HP/UX, for instance, the section on CDE contains a lot of superfluous information (like what Sun puts in what drawer on the front panel) and the section on Samba is a weird mix of discussion of Samba on HPUX and on Linux. I can only imagine those sections were slapped in there from other papers without tailoring them for this book. There are some other annoying things that a good editor could have taken care of, for instance, repetition in between sections of the same chapter and screenshots/console dumps that have confusing information in them. One boot screenshot shows leftover console garbage that should have been removed, for instance. There are also occasional omissions, like any mention of using LDAP services, but all the basics are covered. There are some nice additions, too, such as information on setting up PRM and a nice tear-out card with hardware commands.
I still give this book a 4/5, because none of its flaws prevent it from being very useful and informative. If a good technical editor put it under the knife, it would definitely deserve the status of best HPUX-specific book. Right now it holds that position, but mostly due to the lack of titles out there that concentrate on HP UNIX.
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Summary: Wow! Why wasn't this around when I was learning HP-UX?
Comment: It has the wide range of topics needed for every sysadmin and the detail needed to actually help you learn the OS. The book has a *lot* of information; it freely uses example code, output, and visual aids to help clarify.If you want to learn HP-UX, then this is the book! You will be able to set up, configure, and make available a great server and you'll know the "why" that goes with the "what".
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Summary: Excellent Book for System Admin
Comment: Go for it!!! If you just starting with 11i this is the book!! Author has made good attempt of covering the latest topics - virtual partition, PRM, EFI (Itanium based firmware). Book also include different manual pages for quick refernce. There are three separate sections covering genreal admin topic (beginners), advance admin topics and latest tech topics. There is separate chapter with the detailed booting information. This is a lot of information and it gives better understanding of HP boot process. In all one will find almost everything a system admin needs to start with HP-UX and advance to higher level.
