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Old 12-10-2007
System to learn on.

Hello all!

I have recently picked up a contract job doing system administration. I was told it was primarily a Linux Red Hat shop but when I started I found out was about 60% HP-UX. I have very little HP-UX experience. I need to get an affordable HP-UX box to learn on. Any suggestions on what would be a good starter system? I do not have a clue on what system to buy. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks!

Chris Edwards
# 2  
Old 12-10-2007
Getting the hardware is no major problem (eBay etc) getting a legal copy of HPUX is more of a problem.

OpenPA: PA-RISC Information Resource is a great resource for hardware information, a minimum suggestion may be a PA-RISC 1.1 system that can run HPUX 11i.

If the site has a number of HP-UX system find the development/test environments and request time on those. A site should have some mechanism to test it's disaster recovery procedures, so it should have systems that can be rebuilt from scratch.
# 3  
Old 12-10-2007
They do have 2 dev boxes but no spares to play with. I was hopeing to get a handle on the boot procedures and such. I have found some cheap machines on Ebay, will something with 400Mhz or faster work to give me a decent machine to learn on?
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Old 12-10-2007
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Originally Posted by offline
will something with 400Mhz or faster work to give me a decent machine to learn on?
More than sufficient. I have a lowly 725/100 which happily runs HPUX 11i. Not the fastest but does what I want.
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Old 12-10-2007
Thanks for the info. The link is great, now i can actually tell what types of systems we are running here at work by running the "model" command and comapring it to the OpenPA website.
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Old 12-10-2007
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Originally Posted by offline
now i can actually tell what types of systems we are running here at work
It's always a bonus if a contractor can sound like he knows what he is talking about. Smilie
# 7  
Old 12-10-2007
You can get a decent C3600 for a reasonable amount on ebay.

Regarding HP-UX, the product does not require authentication to install, so you can probably just borrow a set of your client's CDs.

Itanium boxes are more difficult, as they've stopped the Itanium workstations so it's servers only (££!).

You'll be looking at 11i v1, as v2 and v3 have a more limited list of supported systems.
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