OpenVMS Training Overview

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.

OpenVMS Training Prerequisites

It is assumed that the participant has successfully completed the Fundamentals of OpenVMS: Getting Started course, or has equivalent system time as a user.

OpenVMS Training Course duration

This course normally requires five (5) days, approximately 50% lecture, and 50% lab time.

OpenVMS Training 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.
OpenVMS Training Course outline

Advanced System Concepts for System Managers

    Process concepts
    Logical Names

Startup and Shutdown

     Alpha and Integrity Console Layouts
     Default bootstrap
     Booting from a different device
     Conversational bootstrap
     Powerfail recovery setup
     Normal shutdown procedure
     Emergency shutdown from DCL
     Emergency shutdown from CC

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

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 Archival Volumes

    Commands to manipulate disk and archive volumes
    BACKUP utility (on-line and standalone)
    ANALYZE/DISK utility

Customizing the System

    The Startup database
    The INSTALL utility
    Adding or removing DCL definitions
    Adding or modifying system help information

Monitoring System Activity

    Informational Utilities
    The MONITOR utility
    The SYSGEN utility
    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