HP-UX Commands Cheat Sheet

Table of Contents

• HP-UX Commands Cheat Sheet
  • Reference
  • Hardware
  • OS Information
  • Network
  • User
  • Disk
  • Storage
  • Software
  • Operation
  • Service
  • Note
  • ICAP
  • Replacement for Linux Command

Reference

• HPUX 10.20 - man pages http://ods.com.ua/win/eng/unix/usail/man/hpux/

Hardware

Operation	Command	supplement
Check Hardware (CPU, Memory, Firm, OS)	machinfo machinfo |grep -i memory
Check model number	model	Example: superdome, Integrity rx2800
reboot	shutdown -r 0 shutdown -r now reboot
halt	shutdown -h 0

# shutdown -r 0

SHUTDOWN PROGRAM
05/23/15 11:40:00 JST
Do you want to send your own message? (You must respond with 'y' or 'n'.): n

Broadcast Message from user01 (pts/0) Sat May 23 11:40:15...
PLEASE LOG OFF NOW ! ! !
        System maintenance about to begin.
All processes will be terminated in 0 second

# shutdown -r 0

SHUTDOWN PROGRAM
05/23/15 11:42:53 JST
Do you want to send your own message? (You must respond with 'y' or 'n'.): y
Type your message.
End with a new-line and EOF character ([CTRL]-[D]).                                        <- Ctrl - D

# reboot
Shutdown at 16:44 (in 0 minutes)

        *** FINAL System shutdown message from user@test-hpux-1 ***

System going down IMMEDIATELY

System shutdown time has arrived
reboot: redirecting error messages to /dev/console

OS Information

Operation	Command	supplement
Check OS Information	osinfo	Host, Version, LastBootTime, SystemUpTime
Check hostname	hostname grep -i hostname /etc/rc.config.d/netconf
Check runlevel	who -r grep initdefault /etc/inittab
Check release date	uname -a uname -r
Check kernel configuration date	kconfig -w
Check kernel parameter	kctune ← all parameter kctune -S ← not default parameter kctune PARAMETER
Setting kernel parameter	kctune PARAMETER=VALUE kctune PARAMETER= ← Change Default kctune PARAMETER=Default ← Change Default kctune -h PARAMETER=VALUE -h : Changes will be held until next boot Example kctune filecache_max=4% kctune semmns=“(semmni*2)”
	dmesg

Network

• /etc/rc.config.d/netconf

Operation	Command	supplement
Check NIC	nwmgr	Is the NIC Down or Up?
Check NIC	lanscan	Is the NIC Down or Up?
List All NIC's IP	netstat -in ← no DNS netstat -i ← Use DNS
Check IP	ifconfig NICNAME ifconfig lan0
Check routing	netstat -rn
Check NIC Speed	lanadmin -x PPANUMBER lanadmin -x 0
Change NIC Down	ifconfig NICNAME down
Change NIC Up	ifconfig NICNAME up

User

Operation	Command	supplement
add a new group to the system	groupadd -g GID GROUP groupadd -g 1000 dev
add a new user login to the system	useradd -m USER useradd -g PRIMARY_GROUP -G GROUP -u UID -s /usr/local/bin/bash -m USER -m : Create the home directory for the new login if it does not exist.
delete a user login from the system	userdel USER userdel -r USER ← delete home directory
change login password	passwd passwd USER
password expires's day	passwd -x 90 USER ← 90days
Check Locked User?	userstat -u USER
unlock user	userdbset -d -u USER auth_failures
password rule	/usr/sbin/userdbget -u USER ← check /usr/sbin/userdbset -u USER MIN_PASSWORD_LENGTH=8 PASSWORD_HISTORY_DEPTH=1 AUTH_MAXTRIES=10 PASSWORD_MIN_LOWER_CASE_CHARS=1 PASSWORD_MIN_UPPER_CASE_CHARS=1 PASSWORD_MIN_DIGIT_CHARS=1 PASSWORD_MIN_SPECIAL_CHARS=0
modify a user login on the system	usermod -u UID -g PRIMARY_GROUP -G GROUP USER

Disk

Operation	Command	supplement
utilization ratio	bdf
summarize disk usage	du -sk DIRECTORY
check mount	mount mount -v
mount volume	mount -F vxfs -o largefiles,log,nodatainlog /dev/vg01/lvol1 /u02 largefiles : using over 2GB file.
umount volume	umount /u02
check mount process	fuser -u /u02
	pvdisplay /dev/disk/disk3_p2
list vg (volume group)	vgdisplay vgdisplay -v vgdisplay -v vg00 |grep "PV Name"	check activated or not
VG activate / deactivate	vghcnage -a n /dev/vgxxx ← deactivate vgchange -a y /dev/vgxxx ← activate
list lv (logical volume)	lvdisplay /dev/vg*/lvol*

Associated Site

• How to use LVM on HP-UX

Storage

Operation	Command	supplement
Check LUN of Storage	ioscan -N -fnu -C disk ioscan -fnkC disk ioscan -m dsf ioscan -m lun
Check HP XP Storage	xpinfo -i ← reduction xpinfo ← detail xpinfo -v ← check xpinfo version
Scan Storage	ioscan ioscan -f ← Detail

Software

Operation	Command	supplement
Listing Software	swlist
HP-UX Version	swlist |grep HPUX11i
HP-UX pach version	swlist -l bundle QPKBASE swlist -l bundle | grep QPK
Installing Software	swinstall -s ./SOURCE.depot swinstall -s ./SOURCE.depot SOFTWARE swinstall -s ./SOURCE.depot "*"	Installed /usr/local You need correct hosts and DNS.
Removing Software	swremove ← GUI swremove SOFTWARE ← CUI
	show_patches

Operation

Operation	Command	supplement
ls	ls -l ← Byte Unit
sudo	visudo
Performance Information right now	top
Performance Information right now	glance
Memory Information	swapinfo
Load Average	w
login information right now	w
login information backward	last

Service

Operation	Command	supplement
stop service	/sbin/init.d/SERVICE stop	secsh ← ssh net ← network
start service	/sbin/init.d/SERVICE start

restart

/sbin/init.d/secsh stop; /sbin/init.d/secsh start

Note

Operation	Command	supplement
Japanese LANG	export LANG=ja_JP.SJIS

ICAP

Operation	Command	supplement
	icapstatus
	parstatus

Replacement for Linux Command

Linux Operation	HP-UX Command	supplement
find --maxdepth=1	cd /etc ; find . -name "hosts" -type f ! -path '.*/*/*'
compress tar z option	tar -cvf - test.d | gzip > /tmp/test.tar.gz tar -cvf - /etc/test.d | gzip > /tmp/test.tar.gz
uncompress tar z option	gzip -dc test.tar.gz | tar xvf - bzip2 -dc test.tar.bz2 | tar xvf -