OpenVMS System Management I: Essentials

This course provides to the system manager who is going to manage an OpenVMS system or cluster the core information and essential skills needed to examine the system, the software and hardware configuration, and the administrative setup already in place, and make modifications to it.

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Course Objectives

Upon completion of the course, students should be able to:

  • Describe and use OpenVMS commands to display information about the following key OpenVMS concepts: the hardware/software environment, processes, memory management, logical name translation, and the system disk structure
  • Manage public and private volumes on OpenVMS
  • Start up and shut down the system
  • Manage user accounts
  • Get the network up and running
  • Manage batch and print queues
  • Back up and restore system and user data
 

  • Prerequisites

    OpenVMS Fundamentals or equivalent experience.

Curriculum

Course Outline

System Environment Concepts
  • OpenVMS cluster concepts
  • Logical names
  • Accessing data on disk
Volume Management
  • Understanding volumes
  • Displaying device information
  • Verifying the integrity of the file system
  • Disk fragmentation
  • Managing volume shadowing
System Startup and Shutdown
  • System boot process
  • Console concepts
  • Conversational boot
  • System startup
  • Shutting down the system
User Management
  • Planning user accounts
  • Authorize utility
  • Account flags
  • Privileges and quotas
  • Managing accounts
  • System interactions
  • Security considerations for user management
  • User management aids
Process Management
  • Process review
  • Overview of memory management
  • Managing processes
  • Displaying memory information
Network Management
  • Networking environment
  • Using LANCP to view network information
  • TCP/IP Services for OpenVMS
  • Managing TCP/IP
  • Viewing network information
  • Starting and stopping TCP/IP Services for OpenVMS
Queue Concepts
  • The job control process
  • Queue manager
  • Batch queues
  • Managing print queues
  • Autostart queues
  • Managing batch and print jobs
  • Logical queues
  • Queue request communication
Backup Management
  • Backup concepts
  • Backup types
  • Managing tape volumes
  • Backup interfaces
  • Backup operations
System Administrative Tasks
  • Using the SYSMAN utility
  • Using the Accounting utility
  • Monitor utility
  • Device errors
  • Security audit reports
  • Communicating with users