Thanks to all who replied. I have many links and general resources to
HP-UX. I appreciate all the help.
The general rule, or the lesson I am learning is that you have to be
very specific with your job requirements, git it in writing if possible.
I have noticed that companies are willing to bend the truth to get you
on-board. There is a great demand for technical people, specialy UNIX
people; sometimes that demand forces managers to get the people in and
take their chances; chances been that they might just pick up and leave.
Just make sure that you have assurances about your specific area of
expertise or interest and a clear understanding of what you will be
doing. The company I am working for "The larges Corporate Bank
WorldWide is looking to fill upto six UNIX spots in the Wall Street area
NY, NY (let me refrase that, on my floor). I don't think that they are
too picky if you are HP or SUN; they just want the UNIX hands.
I have decided to stay put for now. I get a nice smile on my face "hear
to hear" twice a month. I can't get desparate or worry too much about
HP-UX. I have asked for HP training in the mean time. The issue for me
was that I was looking to work on Solaris (9-5) and keep up with the NT
world on my own time. This HP-UX learning period will affect my ability
to keep on top of NT and will force me to keep up with Solaris on my own
time. Another issue is that I have NOVELL, NT, Solaris, and now I will
be getting an HP backgrown; in reality we know that a company can only
pay you for one set of skills at the time...maybe two skills. You don't
want to find yourself knowing a little of everything and a lot of
nothing.
I have included the responsed and the URL's provided by many of you. I
tried to edit the contents to make it more readable...
Thank you again.
Conner McCleod
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sun-managers@sunmanagers.ececs.uc.edu
Solaris 2x to HP-UX 10x
Thanks to:
Philip Plane philip@ra.tepapa.govt.nz
Thomas Anders anders@hmi.de
Ian Parkin parkini@BGEP.CO.UK
Bill Shorter bill@aloft.micro.lucent.com
valerie gray valerie@facade.cc.bellcore.com
Allen, Michael A. AllenMA1@ADIMSG.JHUAPL.EDU
David W. Blaine blained@kostabi.gdls.com
Mark Hargrave hargrme@wisdom.maf.nasa.gov
Wolf Schaefer schaefer@wolfe.llnl.gov
Jeff Kennedy jkennedy@eiq.com
Andrew M Townsend ATOWNSEND@DOLETA.GOV
Frank Velazquez frank@grumpy.lm.ssc.siemens.com
Line Printer lps@rahul.net
Michael Hill Michael_Hill@csgsystems.com
Special Thanks to:
Celeste Stokely celeste@stokely.com
William Duvall WDuvall@atd.gmeds.com
Robert Owen Thomas robt@cymru.com
David Evans DJEVANS@au.oracle.com
Dale Wright DWright@jbwere.com.au
Goodson Alex Alex.Goodson@cts.zeneca.com
Colin Melville Colin_Melville@mastercard.com
Ian MacPhedran Ian_MacPhedran@engr.USask.Ca
Colleen Nielsen colleen@smartdb.com
T Karthikeyan sun_ultra@hotmail.com
Viet Hoang vhoang@lucent.com
Support:
Get in touch with hpux-admin. Their email is
hpux-admin@dutchworks.nl. Very similar so this email group.
The top four places to check are:
http://www.stokely.com/
http://www.interex.org/
http://www.dutchworks.nl/htbin/hpsysadmin
http://iworks.ecn.uiowa.edu/Tech/sun_hpux_interop/
Try these:
http://www.stokely.com/unix.sysadm.resources/faqs.a-m.html#faq.link.hpux
Don't miss the HP-UX/Sun interoperability cookbook there.
For free software:
http://hpux.cae.wisc.edu/
Resource:
http://www.comet.ucar.edu/pub_html/sac_html/hpresource.html
http://www.comet.ucar.edu/pub_html/sac_html/hpresource.html
This URL should get you started:
www.interex.org
check out:
http://hpux.csc.liv.ac.uk/
Try this site.
http://www.ugu.com/sui/ugu/show?I=hpux&F=1111111111&G=Y
Search the hpsysadmin mailing list
http://www.dutchworks.nl/htbin/hpsysadmin
Software Porting And Archive Centre for HP-UX
http://hpux.cs.utah.edu/
Archives: ftp.dutchworks.nl:/pub/digests/hpux-admin
(FTP, browse only)
http://www.dutchworks.nl/htbin/hpsysadmin (Web,
browse &
search)
Mailing list info:
1 To subscribe/unsubscribe to this list, contact
majordomo@dutchworks.nl
Name: hpux-admin@dutchworks.nl Owner:
owner-hpux-admin@dutchworks.nl
2 A similar lists is 'majordomo@dutchworks.nl.' Put 'subscribe
hpux-admin' in
both subject line and message body. Excellent list.
You can find some links on http://www.hmi.de/dv/unix/hp/
Books:
The best book comes with the HP-UX media. Its called HP-UX
Systems Administration Tasks (Part number B2355-90079).
Alternatively try HP-UX 10.x Systems administration by
Marty Poniatowski (isbn 0-13-125873-7), its quite good but rather GUI
orientated (whoops I've just reread your message and you've already got
this).Finally the O'Reilly Essential Systems Administration book by
Aeleen Frisch (isbn 1-56592-127-5) is a must for any administrator as it
compares Solaris with HP-UX as well as AIX, LINUX and ULTRIX.
Get the book "The HP-UX System Administrator's "How To" Book" by
Marty Poniatowski, Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ,
isbn 0-13-099821-4 (my copy), 1994 (my copy).
Education:
www.hp.com/education/usacanada.html
1-800-472-5277 (US)
1-800-563-5089 (Canada)
Resource:
www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/hp/hpux-faq/faq.html
HP Course # H5875S : hp-ux 10.x system & network admin for
experienced unix sysadmins
For shareware:
The Liverpool Archive is THE site for HP sysadmins. Sorry, I don't
have the
URL but a search engine should easily find it. (I DIDN'T
FIND IT?!)
Checkout the following:
http://interworks.org/Tech/sun_hpux_interop/outline.html
Where to Start:
I recommend that you start with http://docs.hp.com. It's a
start, and quite
a good collection of information. There are also the
following
links:
ftp://iworks.ecn.uiowa.edu/pub/comp.hp/ -- software and
ports
http://hpux.cae.wisc.edu/ -- a large collection of ports
for
HP-UX
http://hp73.pvamu.edu/~hp73e771/hpfaq.html -- an HP-UX FAQ
>From Bill:
Here are some things you may want to check-out:
* http://www.dutchworks.nl/htbin/hpsysadmin (Fuzzy search
the
HPUX Sysadmin mailing list)
* http://www.docs.hp.com/ (Info & Documentation)
*http://www.software.hp.com/OS_transition/DOCS/CDE/TOC.HTM
(Contents - HP CDE Getting Started Guide)
* http://www.software.hp.com/OS_transition/INDEX.HTM
(HP-UX
10.20 Transition Toolkit)
* http://www.hp.com/education/sections/hpux.html (Course
Listing)
* http://www.hp.com/education/course-listing.html (HP-PS:
Education)
* http://us-support.external.hp.com:80/ (HP Electronic
Support
Center)
* http://gatekeep.cs.utah.edu/hppd/hpux/
* http://hpcc997.external.hp.com:80/ (Welcome to
Hewlett-Packard)
* http://www.hppro.com/ (HP Professional Web Edition)
Here is info on an HP mailing list similar to
Sun-Managers:
To subscribe to hpux-admin-digest, send the command:
subscribe hpux-admin-digest
in the body of a message to "majordomo@dutchworks.nl". If
you
want to subscribe something other than the account the
mail is
coming from, such as a local redistribution list, then
append
this address to the "subscribe" command; for example, to
subscribe "local-hpux-admin":
subscribe hpux-admin-digest
local-hpux-admin@your.domain.net
When you recieve your first mailing, there will be further
directions at the bottom of the digest.
Hope this is enough to get ya started!! Have fun!!
William
>From Colin:
I worked a little with HP-UX two years ago. Still have a few
links on my
WWW page at:
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/6706/HP.html
and other Unix links at:
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/6706/Unix.html
Good luck! Learn to use GPM/Glance, you'll love it.
Colin Melville
Technology Partners
>From Ian:
> Things like - but for HP-UX:
> http://www.sun.com/:
http://www.hp.com/home.html
http://us-support.external.hp.com/
Sysadmin mailing list:
http://www.dutchworks.nl/htbin/hpsysadmin
Send mail to: majordomo@cv.ruu.nl
Subject:
Body: subscribe hpux-admin
Software porting and archive centres:
http://hpux.ced.tudelft.nl/
http://hpux.cs.utah.edu/
http://hpux.csc.liv.ac.uk/
http://hpux.cae.wisc.edu/
....
User your browser to get to the HP Electronic Support
Center page
at:
http://us-support.external.hp.com
(for US, Canada, Asia-Pacific, & Latin-America)
http://europe-support.external.hp.com (for
Europe)
>From T:
Most of the things, you can find it from www.dutchworks.nl for
HP-UX System Admin.
Also go to http://www.ugu.com
Good Luck !
To subscribe/unsubscribe to this list, contact
majordomo@dutchworks.nl
Name: hpux-admin@dutchworks.nl Owner:
owner-hpux-admin@dutchworks.nl
Archives: ftp.dutchworks.nl:/pub/digests/hpux-admin
(FTP, browse only)
http://www.dutchworks.nl/htbin/hpsysadmin
(Web,
browse & search)
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