HP-UX Internet Services Administrator's Guide (May 2010)

1 Internet Services Overview
The HP-UX Internet Services software, (formerly the ARPA Services suite of products)
enables your HP system to carry out the following tasks:
• Transfer files.
• Log on to remote hosts.
• Execute commands remotely.
• Manage IP addresses and network clients.
• Perform all routing protocols.
• Exchange mail with remote hosts on the network.
• Locate and configure networked services in enterprise networks.
• Start network services such as ftp, telnet, rlogin, and tftp without
overloading the system.
• Implement a powerful security mechanism for various services spawned by inetd,
the Internet super daemon.
The link product, which comes with the core operating system, provides the hardware
and software needed for communication by an HP workstation over an IEEE 802.3
network, an Ethernet local area network, or an X.25 packet switch network. NIS and
NFS Services also require link software and can run concurrently on the same node
with the Internet Services.
The information in this manual applies to all HP workstations unless noted otherwise.
IMPORTANT: System Administration Manager (SAM) is deprecated in HP-UX 11i
v3. HP System Management Homepage (HP SMH) is the system administration tool
for managing HP-UX. HP SMH provides systems management functionality, at-a-glance
monitoring of system component health, and consolidated log viewing. HP SMH
provides Graphical User Interface (GUI), Text User Interface (TUI), and Command
Line Interface (CLI) for managing HP-UX. You can access these interfaces using the
/usr/sbin/smh command.
When you run either the /usr/sbin/sam or /usr/sbin/smh command and if the
DISPLAY environment variable is set, HP SMH opens in the default Web browser. If
the DISPLAY environment variable is not set, HP SMH opens using its terminal
interface.
Introduction to Internet Services
The HP-UX Internet Services software combines services developed by the University
of California at Berkeley (UCB), Cornell University, Merit Network, Inc.,
Carnegie-Mellon University (CMU), Hewlett-Packard, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology (MIT), Internet Software Consortium, and other public domain sources.
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