This blended learning course combines web-based training and instructor-led classroom training to provide fundamental skills for the OpenVMS system manager. The program begins with self-paced, web-based training covering the Introduction to OpenVMS. Hands-on labs using an Alpha server accessed via telnet sessions reinforce the concepts. After completing the e-learning modules, the student takes a web-based self-assessment test. When a score 75% or greater is achieved, the student can register for the instructor-led 5-day classroom portion of the course. DCL programming topics begin this section, followed by the four-day OpenVMS System Management I course which introduces the core set of concepts, tasks, and skills immediately important to managing an OpenVMS system. Recall and Review questions reinforce the instruction and reading. Lab Exercises provide opportunities for hands-on experience because doing anchors and confirms learning.

This course supports OpenVMS 7.3 though 8.2.

• Over 2 weeks of content provided with just 5 days away from work.
• Discussion of the context in which system management occurs.
• Startup and shutdown procedures and installation and upgrade of OpenVMS.
• Management tasks discussed, with examples and related lab exercises.
• Covers licenses, layered products, and managing users, processes, volumes, virtual memory and queues.

• Describe architectures, connectivity options and processor options for OpenVMS systems
• Use console commands to boot from a CD, upgrade the firmware, install or upgrade OpenVMS
• Perform post-installation and post-upgrade tasks
• Outline the major phases of the startup and shutdown sequences
• Describe the uses of the site-specific startup and shutdown files
• Use console commands to control startup for conversational boots
• Describe the components of the LMF and the differences among the license types and perform license management tasks
• Perform installation of layered products
• Design the account management scheme for standalone systems and clusters
• Perform AUTHORIZE utility subcommands to create and maintain user accounts and rights, using available tools and techniques
• Create account prototypes for user groups and determine account privileges and resource limits
• Describe the integration of account management with other system constraints
• Discuss the OpenVMS implementation of a process, OpenVMS process scheduling, and the types of processes OpenVMS provides
• Perform process control and management tasks
• Differentiate disk and tape terminology, On Disk Structure (ODS), Record Management Services (RMS)
• Perform DCL commands to create and manage disk and tape volumes, including use of ACLs for disk files
• Explain the concept of virtual memory and describe demand paging, page faults, swapping, and the function of the free and modified lists
• Use the SHOW MEMORY command and the MONITOR utility to view memory information
• Describe the implementation and operation of the queue manager and perform queue manager management tasks
• Discuss criteria for designing printer and batch queues
• Implement device control libraries
• Create print and batch queues and perform print and batch queue maintenance tasks

Self- paced, e-Learning modules:

Module 1 — The OpenVMS Operating System
Module 2 — Interactive Access
Module 3 — Using Interactive DCL Commands and Procedures
Module 4 — Directories, Files, and RMS
Module 5 — Editing Files
Module 6 — Using Logical Names
Module 7 — Operations on Files
Module 8 — Networking and Communication
Module 9 — Basic DCL Programming

Instructor-led, classroom training:

Module 1 — Review of Introduction to OpenVMS
Module 2 — Intermediate DCL Programming
Module 3 — OpenVMS System Management Context
Module 4 — Installing and Upgrading OpenVMS
Module 5 — Shutdown and Startup of OpenVMS
Module 6 — Managing Licenses and Layered Products
Module 7 — Managing Users
Module 8 — Managing Processes
Module 9 — Managing Volumes
Module 10 — Managing Virtual Memory
Module 11 — Managing Queues