diff --git a/check_date.ksh b/check_date.ksh
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+#!/usr/bin/ksh
+echo "Checking date command availability and date arithmetic support..."
+
+# Check for date commands
+echo "Available date commands:"
+if command -v date >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+    echo "  date: $(which date)"
+    DATE_CMD="date"
+else
+    echo "  date: NOT FOUND"
+fi
+
+if command -v gdate >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+    echo "  gdate: $(which gdate)"
+    if [ -z "$DATE_CMD" ]; then
+        DATE_CMD="gdate"
+    fi
+else
+    echo "  gdate: NOT FOUND in PATH"
+    # Check common HP-UX locations for gdate
+    echo "  Checking common HP-UX locations for gdate..."
+    for gdate_path in /usr/local/bin/gdate /opt/gnu/bin/gdate /usr/contrib/bin/gdate /opt/coreutils/bin/gdate; do
+        if [ -x "$gdate_path" ]; then
+            echo "  gdate: FOUND at $gdate_path"
+            if [ -z "$DATE_CMD" ]; then
+                DATE_CMD="$gdate_path"
+            fi
+            break
+        fi
+    done
+    if [ -z "$DATE_CMD" ] || [ "$DATE_CMD" = "date" ]; then
+        echo "  gdate: NOT FOUND in common locations"
+    fi
+fi
+
+if command -v perl >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+    echo "  perl: $(which perl)"
+    PERL_AVAILABLE=1
+else
+    echo "  perl: NOT FOUND"
+    PERL_AVAILABLE=0
+fi
+
+if [ -z "$DATE_CMD" ]; then
+    echo "ERROR: No date command found!"
+    exit 1
+fi
+
+echo ""
+echo "Testing date arithmetic with: $DATE_CMD"
+
+# Test basic date
+echo "Basic date output:"
+$DATE_CMD +"%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S"
+
+# Test date arithmetic like used in rman_db.ksh
+echo ""
+echo "Testing date arithmetic: '$DATE_CMD +%m-%d-%Y\ %H:%M:%S -d \"-1 hour\"'"
+if $DATE_CMD -d "-1 hour" >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+    RESULT=$($DATE_CMD +%m-%d-%Y\ %H:%M:%S -d '-1 hour')
+    echo "SUCCESS: Date arithmetic works"
+    echo "Result: $RESULT"
+else
+    echo "ERROR: Date arithmetic (-d option) not supported"
+    echo "This system may need GNU date (gdate) installed"
+fi
+
+# Test perl-based date arithmetic as fallback
+if [ $PERL_AVAILABLE -eq 1 ]; then
+    echo ""
+    echo "Testing perl-based date arithmetic fallback:"
+    echo "Command: perl -e 'use POSIX qw(strftime); \$time = time() - 3600; print strftime(\"%m-%d-%Y %H:%M:%S\", localtime(\$time))'"
+    PERL_RESULT=$(perl -e 'use POSIX qw(strftime); $time = time() - 3600; print strftime("%m-%d-%Y %H:%M:%S", localtime($time))')
+    echo "SUCCESS: Perl date arithmetic works"
+    echo "Result: $PERL_RESULT"
+else
+    echo ""
+    echo "WARNING: Perl not available - no fallback for date arithmetic"
+fi
+
+echo ""
+echo "Test complete."
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diff --git a/rbk_api.conf.example b/rbk_api.conf.example
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--- a/rbk_api.conf.example
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@@ -1,26 +0,0 @@
-# ID and Key for RSC Service Account (starts with client|) (use single quotes)
-ID='client|xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'
-SECRET=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
-
-# DNS name of Rubrik CDM
-RUBRIK_IP=<CDM address>
-
-# Oracle Settings
-MOUNTPOINT_PREFIX=/rubrik_
-# How many hours of archivelog to keep on host. 0 means do not purge logs
-HOSTLOGRET=2
-
-# Percentage threshold to warn if an MV filesystem is getting full
-MV_SPACE_WARN=75
-
-# Logging directories
-
-# API calls 
-API_LOG_DIR=/tmp/rubrik
-# RMAN sessions
-RMAN_LOG_DIR=/tmp/rubrik/rman
-
-# List of email addresses to send failure alerts to
-ALERT_EMAILS=root,oracle
-# Set to 1 to enable email alert on success also
-EMAIL_SUCCESS=1
diff --git a/test.ksh b/test.ksh
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+++ b/test.ksh
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+#!/usr/bin/ksh
+echo "Testing HP-UX compatibility for Rubrik scripts..."
+
+# Check for required commands
+for cmd in ksh awk readlink egrep date dfsdf expr mkdir; do
+  if ! command -v $cmd >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+    echo "ERROR: $cmd not found in PATH"
+  else
+    echo "OK: $cmd found"
+  fi
+done
+
+# Test awk JSON extraction for numChannels
+echo '{"numChannels": 4, "foo": "bar"}' > /tmp/testjson.$$
+numChannels=$(awk '{match($0, /"numChannels":[ ]*[0-9]+/); if (RSTART > 0) {val=substr($0, RSTART, RLENGTH); sub(/.*:[ ]*/, "", val); print val}}' /tmp/testjson.$$)
+if [ "$numChannels" = "4" ]; then
+  echo "OK: awk numChannels extraction works"
+else
+  echo "ERROR: awk numChannels extraction failed (got '$numChannels')"
+fi
+
+# Test awk JSON extraction for ManagedVolume
+echo '{"id":"ManagedVolume:::abc-123-xyz"}' > /tmp/testjson.$$
+mvId=$(awk '{match($0, /ManagedVolume:::[a-z0-9-]*/); if (RSTART > 0) {id=substr($0, RSTART, RLENGTH); sub(/"$/, "", id); print id}}' /tmp/testjson.$$)
+if [ "$mvId" = "ManagedVolume:::abc-123-xyz" ]; then
+  echo "OK: awk ManagedVolume extraction works"
+else
+  echo "ERROR: awk ManagedVolume extraction failed (got '$mvId')"
+fi
+
+# Test readlink
+ln -s /tmp/testjson.$$ /tmp/testlink.$$
+linkres=$(readlink /tmp/testlink.$$ 2>/dev/null)
+if [ "$linkres" = "/tmp/testjson.$$" ]; then
+  echo "OK: readlink works"
+else
+  echo "WARNING: readlink did not return expected result (got '$linkres')"
+fi
+rm -f /tmp/testjson.$$ /tmp/testlink.$$
+
+# Test expr arithmetic
+i=0
+i=$(expr $i + 1)
+if [ "$i" = "1" ]; then
+  echo "OK: expr arithmetic works"
+else
+  echo "ERROR: expr arithmetic failed"
+fi
+
+echo "Testing complete."
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