Masters Education Program
PARSEC’s Masters Education Program (MEP) isn't your typical online technical seminar.
What if each month you could be a part of a seminar that is geared towards creating best practices for legacy and state-of-art systems with topics such as OpenVMS Crash-Dump Analysis or IP Filtering on UNIX? Would it impress your boss if you learned new methods to ensure current relevance and utility for your company? Would it elevate your job performance, or help you solve a vexing problem? If so, save your seat now in PARSEC's next MEP!
Every month you will learn information inspired by actual case studies that you can apply on-the-spot. We pack technical and practical material into a comfortable 2 hour online session that tops off with ample time for Q&A and valued feedback. Bonus! You get exclusive access to download our extensive documentation at the time of each seminar. Here's a sample list of some of our past seminars:
- Road Trip! VMS Bootcamp 2016 Conference Report
- Bare-Metal System Recovery
- Cleaning Out the Cruft on OpenVMS
- Systemd and Other Major Changes in Redhat Linux 7
- Monitoring OpenVMS with Open-Source SNMP Tools
- OpenVMS Performance Tools
- IP Filtering on Unix
As a perk of being a much appreciated PARSEC support customer, each session is free. If your company is not yet benefiting from PARSEC’s support, you can join any MEP for a modest cost per person. Furthermore, if you sign up for a telephone support contract with us, within 30 days of attending the MEP, we will credit the seminar cost to your support invoice. For as long as you’re a support customer, you will not only enjoy the peace of mind in knowing you’re support needs are covered, but future seminars will be free as well.
Understanding Cluster Protocol on OpenVMS
The SCACP utility was first introduced in OpenVMS 7.3. Its utilization allowed system managers to easily control which channels, or typically NIC paths between cluster members, are to be the preferred communication path. This allowed OpenVMS system managers to get off their corporate network teams “naughty list” for having too much non-IP traffic on the corporate backbone. We’ll take a look at the history of the SCA protocol, gain awareness of what the various displays are showing you, how to interpret various counters to determine if there are any problem areas with your cluster communication and finally what commands can be used to help alleviate any communication issues.
Introduction
History of SCA
ECS - Equivalent Channel Set
Configuration
Setting Priorities
ECS_MAX_DELAY
CALCULATE
Checksums in SCA
Troubleshooting
Channel Troubleshooting
Virtual Circuit Troubleshooting
Receive Errors
Transmit Errors
VC Closure Errors
IPCI
Fast Failover
This training session is scheduled - 1:00pm MST. We link to www.worldtimeserver.com to convert to your local time. Note that this is planned as a 2 hour presentation to provide sufficient time to cover all of the topics. To register or to ask any questions, please contact us via e-mail to experts@parsec.com or fill out the inquiry page.
Unix and Linux Processes
This webinar is designed to help you better understand Linux and Unix processes. The only active entities on a Unix or Linux system are processes.
The process is a core concept on any modern operating system. Every task on a system is represented by some type of process.
Unix runs many tasks, seemingly at the same time, because each process receives a slice of CPU time in a roughly round-robin fashion. This mechanism is analogous to that of traditional cinematography where the camera captures still images at a rate that human vision perceives to be smooth motion when played back.
Overview
Topics
What is a Process
Non-Unix examples
- VMS
- Multics
- Primos
Categories of Processes
- init and sched
- Daemons
- User
- Orphans
- Zombies
Process Attributes
- PID
- PPID
- UID
- GID
Process Creation
- fork
- exec
Process Termination
- exit codes
- signals
Process Management
Job Control
- Foreground
- & (ampersand)
- Background
- Stopped
- Niceness
- nohup command
Threads / Lightweight Processes
- differences with processes
- creation
- termination
Other execution environment abstractions
- hypervisors
- emulators
- jails
- zones
- chroot
- partitions
This training session is scheduled - 1:00pm MDT. We link to www.worldtimeserver.com to convert to your local time. Note that this is planned as a 2 hour presentation to provide sufficient time to cover all of the topics. To register or to ask any questions, please contact us via e-mail to experts@parsec.com or fill out the inquiry page.
Worry-Free Delivery
PARSEC Group uses Zoom to deliver our e-Learning to our customers. Zoom provides several options for connecting to the class.
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Audio is provided via Voice over IP (VoIP) and requires speakers, or a USB headset.
