OpenVMS System Management
Designed for experienced users, this course dives deeper into system management, performance optimization, and advanced OpenVMS topics.
Choose the format that suits you: enroll now for self-paced learning, or contact us to schedule an instructor-led session
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OpenVMS System Management
This course provides a system manager with information and skills needed to manage an existing OpenVMS system or build a system configuration from scratch. It covers all system management considerations from everyday tasks like user and queue management to system design, performance, and troubleshooting. This course is a mix of instructor-led System Management I and System Management II available as a self-paced course.
Course Objectives
Upon completion of the course, students should be able to:
- Install, upgrade, and configure an OpenVMS system and layered products
- Install and manage licenses
- Work in the console (MP, EFI Shell, SRM)
- Understand and manage the queue mechanism
- Configure and manage the storage subsystem
- Design and implement a backup strategy
- Configure basic networking
- Implement login, object, network, and physical security, as well as security auditing
- Maintain system management command procedures
- Create and manage basic OpenVMS clusters
Self-Paced Course Pricing
$1000
Discounts are available for multiple attendees or multiple course enrollments. For exact discount levels, please reach out to our team at training@vmssoftware.com.
Curriculum
Course Outline
System Environment Concepts
- Obtaining key system information
- Navigating the system disk
- Rooted and concealed logicals, logical search lists
- File aliases
Installing the System
- OpenVMS system requirements
- Installing OpenVMS
Licensing
- VSI and HPE licensing schemes
- Installing licenses
- The License Management Utility
Layered Products
- PCSI
- VMSINSTAL.COM
- ECO kits
- Displaying and managing layered products
Customizing Your System
- System Startup and Shutdown
- SYSGEN
- AUTOGEN
- Page, swap, and dump files
Console Concepts
- System Startup and Shutdown
- SYSGEN
- AUTOGEN
- Page, swap, and dump files
User Management
- Using AUTHORIZE to manage user records, privileges, and quotas
- Managing rights identifiers
- Maintaining system security with respect to user management
- Managing intrusion attempts
Process Management
- Understanding process states and priorities
- Managing processes
- Using $ MONITOR and $ SHOW PROCESS/CONTINUOUS to analyze processes
Queue Managment
- Managing queue managers and queue database files
- Managing print and batch queues
- Managing jobs
- Troubleshooting queue problems
Volume Managment
- Managing disks and tapes on OpenVMS
- Initializing and mounting volumes
- File systems (ODS-2 and ODS-5)
- Reliable storage solutions
- Volume Shadowing for OpenVMS
Network Managment
- TCP/IP Services for OpenVMS: configuring, starting, and stopping the product and services
- OpenVMS and Unix-style commands for network management
- Managing network interfaces with LANCP
Backup Managment
- Creating and implementing a backup strategy
- Backing up to tape
- Physical, file, and image backup and restore
- Encrypting backup savesets
- Compressing backup savesets
- Standalone backup of the system disk
- Reverting from ODS-5 to ODS-2 using the BACKUP utility
Security
- Creating and maintaining default protection, creator, subsystem, audit, and alarm ACEs
- Physical and network security standards
- Maintaining login security
- Managing security alarms and audit
System Administration Tasks and Automation
- Maintaining the order of startup tasks, startup and shutdown procedures
- Writing command procedures to automate system administration
Upgrading the System
- Upgrading an OpenVMS system
Clustering
- Creating and managing OpenVMS clusters
- Quorum algorithm and disk
- Taking a node out of a cluster
- Shutting down a cluster safely
- Changing a node name
- Solving common cluster problems