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Summary: The best HP-UX book, but not well edited
Review: 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: Understand HP-UX 11i
Review: This book is very good to get Understanding of HP-UX 11i. It has lots of command line output. A book with big quantity and quality material in it.
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Summary: Great Book!
Review: This booked has helped me get started with HP-UX 11i. I've never seen the HP 9000 boot process documented until I read chapter one of this book. I was able to load and configure 11i using this book. All of the kernel parameters for 11i are documented, I've never seen much on HP-UX kernel parameters before. There are bonuses to this book such as the manual pages for many commands so I didn't have to look at man pages online, which I hate. There's also a vi tear out card and trial performance software in the book. In addition to HP-UX material there is a UNIX section and a Windows and UNIX interoperability section. There is a lot to this book beyond the 11i material that I've used. This is the most complete guide for any UNIX variant that I've ever seen.
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