OpenVMS Itanium (I64)/Alpha/VAX SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT COURSE DESCRIPTION This course will teach the commands and methods needed to setup and manage an OpenVMS Itanium, Alpha, or VAX platform system. The course will also use a problem solving approach in the lab exercises to teach system managers advanced topics for long-term mangement of an OpenVMS system. COURSE OBJECTIVES On completion of this course, a system manager should be able to install, update, and boot the OpenVMS operating system; set up user accounts and directories; prepare queues for use; perform backups for integrity and performance reasons; monitor the system for performance and do basic hardware and software errors analysis. COURSE TOPICS Advanced System Concepts for System Managers Process concepts Itanium - Alpha - VAX Architecture Differences Logical Names Startup and Shutdown Itanium / Alpha / VAX Console Layouts Itanium / Alpha / VAX Default bootstrap Booting from a different device Conversational bootstrap Normal shutdown procedure Emergency shutdown from DCL Emergency shutdown from CCL - VAX Emergency shutdown from CCL - Alpha Emergency shutdown from CCL - Itanium System Installation and Updating Installing/upgrading to a major release of OpenVMS Upgrading to a minor release of OpenVMS Installation of layered products Backup of the console volumes - VAX Managing of System Users Quotas, Privileges, and UIC concepts The AUTHORIZE utility The DISKQUOTA utility Creation of a first level directory Login sequence Responding to operator requests Operator-user communications Using and maintaining the OPERATOR.LOG file Managing Queues Queue types Creation of an execution print queue Creation of a generic print queue Creation of a batch queue Commands to manipulate queues Commands to manipulate jobs in queues Stopping and deleting queues Managing Disk and Tape Volumes Commands to manipulate disk and tape volumes BACKUP utility ANALYZE/DISK utility Customizing the System The Startup database The INSTALL utility Granularity Hint Regions - Itanium / Alpha Adding or removing DCL definitions Adding or modifying system help information Monitoring System Activity Informational Utilities The MONITOR utility The SYSGEN utility Using SYSMAN (for SYSGEN) - Itanium / Alpha Using the AUTOGEN procedure Maintaining System Integrity The ACCOUNTING utility Identifiers and the RIGHTSLIST database Access Control Lists (ACLs) OpenVMS login security techniques Registering and maintaining product licenses Maintaining security auditing information Using the Error Report Facility Using the System Dump Analyzer utility COURSE DURATION This course normally requires five (5) days, approximately 50% lecture, and 50% lab time. COURSE PREREQUISITES It is assumed that the participant has successfully completed the Fundamentals of OpenVMS course, or has equivalent system time as a user. |