Who Should Attend

This course is designed for system managers who need the skills to install and configure a new system or upgrade an existing system.

Benefits of Attending this Class

This course covers tasks to create new OpenVMS Systems. These tasks include installing the OpenVMS and layered products software, setting up the network, and customizing the system. The course also covers post installation tasks, such as registering licenses and configuring the cluster environment. This course involves the students in relevant exercises that reinforce the lectures and gives students the application of the lectures so that they can install and configure a new OpenVMS installation.

This goal of this course is to teach how to configure and manage an OpenVMS environment on Alpha and Integrity servers, configure it into a network and cluster environment and perform other post installation tasks to help student became proficient system managers. However, it is not a goal in this course to make students network managers.

Course Contents

Console

• Integrity Console
  • Baseboard Management Controller
  • Management Processor
  • Extensible FIrmware Interface
  • Boot Options
  • Backing Up and Restoring the EFI
  • Updating the Firmware
• Alpha Console
  • Commands
  • Console Variables
  • Updating the Firmware
  • wwidmgr

System Startup

• Overview
  • Boot Block
• Managing Boot Options from OpenVMS
• Customizing Startup
  • Site-Specific Startup Procedures
  • SYSMAN Startup Database
  • Cluster Environment
  • Group and Account Specific Startup
• Startup Logging

Shutdown Procedures

• Overview
  • Application Cleanup
  • System Cleanup
• Orderly System Shutdown
  • Shutdown Steps
  • Shutdown Options
  • Customization
  • SHUTDOWN.COM
  • SYSMAN
• Emergency Shutdown
  • Emergency Shutdown from DCL
  • Emergency Shutdown from Console
  • Power off the System

Licensing

• Overview
• Terminology
  • License Database
  • License Management Utility
  • License Unit Requirement Table
  • Operating Environment
  • Product Authorization Key
  • Unit
• Product Authorization Key
  • License Size
  • Checksum
  • Sample PAKs
• Activating a License
  • License Command
  • VMSLICENSE Command Procedure
• License Availability and Usage
  • Show License Command
  • License List Command
  • Operating Environment
  • License Usage
• Cluster Considerations
• Cleaning up the Database

Software Installation and Patches

• Overview
  • Patches
  • Installation
• Software Kit Validation
• PolyCenter Software Installation
  • Installing a Product
  • Listing Installed Products
  • Viewing Installation History of a Product
• VMSINSTAL
  • Software Installation
  • Example Installation
  • Viewing Installation History

INSTALL Utility

• Overview
  • Reasons to Install a Known Image
• Installing an Image
  • Using an Installed Image
  • Replacing an Installed Image
• Viewing Installed Images
• Removing an Installed Image

Device Management

• Configuring Devices
• Network Device Management
  • Console Settings on Alpha
  • LANCP
  • LAN Failover
  • Virtual LANs
• USB
  • USB Configuration Manager
  • Viewing USB Configuration
  • Viewing USB Events
  • Managing USB Event Log
• Multi-Processing
  • Terminology
  • Managing Multi-Processing Support
  • Managing CPUs
  • SHOW CPU Command
  • Starting and Stopping Processors
• RAID
  • RAID 0
  • RAID 1
  • RAID 5
  • RAID 6
  • RAID 10 or 0+1
  • Virtual RAID
  • Host-Based Shadowing
  • Controller vs. Host-Based RAID
• Storage Controllers
  • MSA$UTIL
  • SAS$UTIL

Network Configuration

• TCP/IP Services
• TCP/IP Management Utility
  • HELP Command
• TCP/IP Addresses
  • Configuration Options
• Name Translation
  • Local Host Database
  • Domain Name Server
• Starting with Default Configuration
• Configuration
  • General Configuration
  • Using sysconfig
• Routing
  • Routing Tables
  • Managing Static Routes
  • Example with Multiple Routes
• Services
  • Client Configuration
• Startup and Shutdown

Volume Management

• Overview
  • ODS-2 File System
  • ODS-5 File System
• Manaing Volumes
• Initializing a Volume
• Mounting Volumes
• Volume Characteristics
• Process Characteristics Related to Volumes
  • Extended Command Parsing
  • Case Sensitive File Names
• Bound Volume Sets
• ODS-2 vs. ODS-5
  • Convert from ODS-2 to ODS-5
  • Revert from ODS-5 to ODS-2
• UNIX Compatibility
• Dynamic Volume Expansion
• Host-Based Shadow Sets
  • Shadow Set Operations
  • Mounting a Shadow Set
  • Overriding Previous Shadow Set Membership
  • Managing Shadow Sets
  • Multi-Site Clusters
  • Initializing a Host-Based Shadow Set
  • Host Based Minimerge
  • DVE and Shadow Sets

Security

• Login Security
  • System Password
  • Inaccessible User Authorization File
• Object Security
  • Types of Access
  • Terminology
  • Classes of Protected Objects
  • UIC Based Security
  • Access Control List Protection

OpenVMS Clusters

• Overview
  • Homogeneous vs. Heterogeneous
  • System Processes
  • Software Components
• Cluster Interconnects
  • IP Cluster Interconnect
• Cluster Authorization
• Voting
  • Adjusting Expected Votes
  • Three Node Example
  • Four Node Example
  • Quorum Disk
  • Two Node Example with Quorum Disk
  • Other Configurations with Quorum Disk
• Cluster State Transitions
• Device Sharing
  • SHOW DEVICE Command
  • SET DEVICE Command
  • Mounting and Dismounting Cluster Accessible Disks
• Device Naming
  • Using Only Local Disks
  • Using Only Shared Disks
  • Using Shared and Local Disks
• VMScluster Configuration
  • System Parameters
  • Convert a Stand-Alone System to a Cluster Member
• Satellite Nodes
• Removing a Node from the Cluster
• Modifying VMScluster Characteristics
• Shared System Disk
  • Rolling Upgrade Considerations
• System Shutdown
• Viewing Cluster Information
• SCACP

System Parameters

• Overview
  • Dynamic vs. Static Parameters
• Parameter Files
  • Utilities to Manage Parameters
• Manual Changes to System Parameters
  • System Generation Utility
  • System Management Utility
  • SYSBOOT
• Autogen
  • Feedback Information
  • When to Run AUTOGEN
  • Using AUTOGEN
  • MODPARAMS.DAT
  • AUTOGEN Files

System Files

• Overview
  • Creating or Extending a System File
• Page and Swap Files
  • Page and Swap File Usage
  • Secondary Files
  • Autogen
• System Dump File
  • Dump Off System Disk
  • Sizing Dump File
  • Preserving the System Dump File
  • Viewing Dump File

Appendix A - Installing OpenVMS

• Overview
  • OpenVMS Distribution
• Installation
  • Boot Installatino Media
  • Configuration
  • Initial Reboot
  • Initial Autogen
  • Final Reboot

Appendix B - VAX Installation

• Overview
• VAX Installation

Appendix C - Post Installation Tasks

• Expanding Page File
• Decompressing Libraries
• Secure Sockets Layer
  • Upgrade
  • System Startup
  • System Shutdown
  • Symbols
  • Installation Verification Procedure
• Add Standard System Accounts
• Other Tasks
  • User Environment Test Package

Appendix D - DECnet

• Overview
• DECnet Phase IV
  • Types of Objects
  • Routing
  • Managing DECnet
  • NETCONFIG.COM
  • Managing Node Database
  • Connectivity
  • Cluster Alias
  • Services
• DECnet Plus
  • Manaing DECnet Plus
  • Managing Node Database
  • Services

Appendix E - Local Area Transport

• Terminal Servers
• Enable the LAT Protocol
• Load Software on a Terminal Server
  • DSVCONFIG.COM

Appendix F - Accessing Storage Controllers

• Diagnostic Utility Protocol
  • Configure FY Driver
  • Connecting to a Storage Controller
  • HSC50 Example
  • DSSI Example
• SCSI Controller
  • Example
• Smart Array Controllers
  • Example
• Serial Attached SCSI RAID Controller