This course briefly reviews the highlights of the OpenVMS System Management I course to establish a common framework for students. More complete discussion of system customization tasks leads to discussion of system management utilities (SYSMAN, ACCOUNTING, ANALYZE/AUDIT, and RMS utilities). for managing and monitoring the system.

The course stresses the importance of establishing a performance baseline both for capacity planning and trouble-shooting purposes. The topic of managing backups to preserve and protect data provides a prelude to the discussion of system security. The security discussion includes topics related to the further discussion of network connectivity. Finally, some fundamental guidelines for troubleshooting conclude the course.

This course supports OpenVMS 7.3-1

• Quick review of the OpenVMS System Management I highlights.
• Focus on using the system management utilities provided by OpenVMS.
• Emphasis on performance baseline and on security.
• Overview of network connectivity with TCP/IP.

Students who complete this course should be able to:

• Apply customizations in site-specific startup files on standalone and clustered systems
• Perform other customizations, including login command procedures, startup databases (with SYSMAN), the Help Message Database, Mail (on clustered systems), time and time zone settings
• Add useful OpenSource programs (such as SSL and Stunnel)
• Identify system data files affected by SYSMAN commands and create and use SYSMAN initialization files
• Use SYSMAN command procedures, SYSMAN commands (to monitor and modify OpenVMS systems, clusters, and cluster nodes)
• Configure (if applicable) and use the ACCOUNTING, AUDIT, INSTALL, and the SHOW CLUSTER utilities
• Use RMS utilities
• Outline a plan for establishing a performance baseline on OpenVMS and analyzing a system’s workload
• Gather baseline data using OpenVMS utilities and commands
• Devise a backup strategy and use the OpenVMS Backup utility and Backup Manager interface to perform backup commands to save and restore data
• Outline the features of OpenVMS security and implement user, object, network and Internet security measures
• Describe secure management practices
• Describe elements of a network environment, including the major components of the TCP/IP protocol stack
• Navigate and use TCPIP$CONFIG menu system and the independent command procedures to start and stop TCP/IP and individual services
• Perform management and maintenance commands for TCP/IP Services
• Troubleshoot system problems systematically
  

Module 1 — Reviewing Basic System Management
Module 2 — Customiizing the System
Module 3 — Using the SYSMAN Utility
Module 4 — Using System Management Utilities
Module 5 — Using RMS Utilities
Module 6 — Establishing a Performance Baseline
Module 7 — Managing Backups
Module 8 — Managing Security
Module 9 — Managing Network Connectivity
Module 10 — Basic Troubleshooting