Networks on HP-UX

HP 9000 computers with HP-UX were frequently used as network (LAN) and later Internet servers with dozens of protocols and services supported. There were a few NetWare products for integration of Novell environments plus a large range of network management software, protocols and servers on HP-UX. HP-UX also supported groupware (Internet).

NetWare

NetWare HP 9000
NetWare HP 9000, © 1991

There were several NetWare products on HP-UX to allow HP 9000 computers to interface with NetWare networks and use or provide NetWare services. These were provided by NetWare and HP in the mid-1990s to HP-UX users. Note there was an aborted port of NetWare to PA-RISC.

Documentation for NetWare on PA-RISC disappeared mostly, some of it remained at old HP software pages.

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Network management

OpenView

HP OpenView is a software solution for network management (NMS), later extended to IT infrastructure and service management. OpenView supported HP-UX in many (all?) versions and had a large range of modules for infrastructure, network, asset and service management. It was mostly used by IT and network departments within their ITSM and NOC organizations.

Firewalls

Various commercial firewall solutions were available for HP-UX, with some ported specifically by HP.

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Protocols

SNA

HP 9000 workstations and servers supported IBM’s SNA (Systems Network Architecture) with a large range of software products and services. SNA was initially a network design of the 1970s used for IBM System/370 mainframes and 37xx devices such as terminals to access host computers.

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Other networking

There were myriad other network protocols, services and architectures supported on HP-UX troughout the years, including Token Ring, FDDI, X.25, SNAplus, TN3270 and many others not listed here.

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Servers

Web servers

Many web server and e-commerce products were made available on HP-UX, with HP 9000 products having had wide distribution through the dot-com e-commerce boom.

Oracle Web Application Server: was bundled on the HP-UX 10.20 Application CD, in version 3.0.

Netscape FastTrack: was an entry-level web server for static and dynamic web pages, supplied on HP-UX Application CDs and later bundles with the HP-UX 11.00 core operating system. This included Netscape FastTrack 3.01 and Netscape Communicator 4.03.

HP Apache was provided by HP as formally ported and support product of Apache 2.0, as well as HP Tomcat and Webmin. These were part of Internet software bundles but made available freely.

Lotus Domino Web Server supported or planned to support HP-UX in at least version 1.5 (1996).

IBM Websphere Application server supported HP-UX in a few versions, at least in 3.5.

Other: There was a long-list of diverse other web servers and components provided for HP-UX, it was the time of the dot-com boom. This includes E-speak Service Engine for dynamic e-services and much more.

CIFS

CIFS/9000 included both clients and servers for using CIFS (SMB) on HP-UX computers to provide and mount files and directories with Windows NT computers. This was a packaged, licensed product for HP-UX 10.20 and 11.* that was later made available for free.

Advanced Server/9000

An earlier product to provide an NT Server environment on an HP-UX platform (1996) was HP Advanced Server/9000 or Advanced Server for UNIX (AS/U). With Advanced Server/9000, network clients could access NT resources on Unix servers, it supported Windows NT, Windows 95, Windows 3.11 WfW and Windows 3.1 clients.

Advanced Server/9000 was based on AT&T Advanced Server for UNIX, itself an authorized port of Microsoft's NT Server to a UNIX platform.

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