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Course number U3585S
Length 10 days
Delivery method Instructor-led training (ILT)
Onsite dedicated training (OST)
Price USD $7,000

Course overview

This course is primarily designed to provide Customers, Presales Systems Engineers, Services Employees, and Selling Partners with short duration training to help them achieve hp OpenVMS certifications. Students likely to benefit from the course are those with previous hp OpenVMS training and experience that need an update in preparation for certification.


Prerequisites

Students taking this course are expected to meet the following prerequisites:

  • One or more years of hands on hp OpenVMS support or system management experience
  • The ability to perform the tasks covered in the hp OpenVMS Fundamentals course
  • The ability to write hp OpenVMS Command procedures to the level covered in the latest hp OpenVMS fundamentals course
  • The ability and motivation to complete the recommended post-course self-study

Audience

This course is intended for customers, business partners, presales system engineers, service employees and partners.


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  • Describe the OpenVMS environment
    • Packaging
    • Hardware overview
    • Software overview
    • Associated products
  • OpenVMS operating system technical concepts
  • Installing OpenVMS and layered products
  • Choosing and configuring and managing cluster configurations
  • OpenVMS and OpenVMS cluster trouble-shooting
  • Choosing and configuring OpenVMS storage
  • Configuring and managing OpenVMS Galaxy
  • Configuring OpenVMS and networking software (LAN, LAT, TCP/IP, DECnet Plus)
  • Performing day to day OpenVMS and network management tasks (TCP/IP)
  • Trouble shooting TCP/IP Services

Course Objetive

  • Describe the OpenVMS environment
    • Packaging
    • Hardware overview
    • Software overview
    • Associated products
  • OpenVMS operating system technical concepts
  • Installing OpenVMS and layered products
  • Choosing and configuring and managing cluster configurations
  • OpenVMS and OpenVMS cluster trouble-shooting
  • Choosing and configuring OpenVMS storage
  • Configuring and managing OpenVMS Galaxy
  • Configuring OpenVMS and networking software (LAN, LAT, TCP/IP, DECnet Plus)
  • Performing day to day OpenVMS and network management tasks (TCP/IP)
  • Trouble shooting TCP/IP Services

Detailed Course Outline

System Environment Concepts

  • Introduction
  • System Environment Concepts
  • Symmetric Multiprocessing
  • Looking at System Information
  • Cluster Systems
  • Galaxy Systems
  • Logical Names
  • System Disk Structure
  • Learning Check

Volume Management

  • Introduction
  • Understanding Volumes
  • Displaying Device Information
  • Making Volumes Available
  • Initializing Disks
  • Mounting and Dismounting Disks
  • Using the ANALYZE/DISK_STRUCTURE Utility
  • Disk and File Fragmentation
  • Defragmenting a Disk with BACKUP
  • Learning Check

User Management

  • Introduction
  • Planning User Accounts
  • Relocating SYSUAF.DAT
  • Managing Accounts
  • Setting Privileges, Limits and Quotas
  • Account Prototypes
  • System Interactions
  • OpenVMS Management Station
  • Learning Check

Process and Virtual Memory Management

  • Introduction
  • Processes
  • Process Context
  • Alpha Virtual Address Space
  • OpenVMS Itanium Virtual Address Regions
  • Kernel Threads
  • Scheduling Priorities and States
  • Memory Management
  • Page and Swap Files
  • Displaying Memory Information
  • Learning Check

Queue Management

  • Introduction
  • Introducing Queue Concepts
  • Queue Manager Commands
  • Queue Related Commands
  • Managing Batch Queues
  • Managing Print Output Queues
  • Symbionts
  • DECprint Supervisor
  • Device Control Libraries
  • Module Types
  • Learning Check

System Shutdown and Startup

  • Introduction
  • Shutting Down the System
  • Emergency Shutdown Procedures
  • System Boot Concepts
  • Using the Alpha SRM Console to Boot the System
  • Understanding the I64 Console
  • Using a Conversational Boot
  • Learning Check

Day-to-Day System Management

  • Introduction
  • Setting System Time
  • Controlling User Processes
  • User Communication
  • Viewing the System Errorlog File
  • Learning Check

Installing and Updating OpenVMS

  • Introduction
  • OpenVMS Packages
  • Installing OpenVMS Overview
  • Updating OpenVMS Overview
  • Upgrading the Firmware
  • Installing the OpenVMS Operating System
  • Itanium Installation Example
  • Learning Check

Licensing

  • Introduction
  • License Management Overview
  • License Types
  • License Management Utility
  • Displaying Licenses
  • VMSLICENSE.COM
  • Learning Check

OpenVMS Security

  • Introduction
  • User Security
  • Object Security
  • Physical Security
  • Auditing
  • Intrusion/Break-in Detection
  • Learning Check

Customizing the System

  • Introduction
  • Modifying System Parameters
  • Using the SYSGEN Utility
  • Using the SYSMAN Utility
  • Using AUTOGEN
  • The Install Utility
  • Paging and Swapping Files
  • System Dump File
  • Learning Check

Layered Products

  • Introduction
  • Product Installation Guide and Release Notes
  • Licenses for Layered Products
  • Locating the Distribution Kit
  • POLYCENTER Software Installation (PCSI)
  • Using PCSI to Install Layered Products
  • Engineering Change Orders (ECO)
  • DCL Tables
  • Learning Check

Getting System Information

  • Introduction
  • Error Logging Facility
  • Analyze/Error_Log
  • The Monitor Utility
  • Accounting Utility
  • SHOW Command Summary
  • Learning Check

Cluster Concepts and Configuration

  • Introduction
  • OpenVMS Cluster Overview
  • OpenVMS Cluster Software
  • OpenVMS Cluster Device Naming Conventions
  • Setting up OpenVMS Cluster Accessible Disks
  • Setting up OpenVMS Cluster Accessible Tapes
  • Satellite Nodes
  • Single Versus Multiple System Disks
  • Configuring OpenVMS Clusters
  • The SHOW CLUSTER Utility
  • Learning Check

OpenVMS Cluster Design and Configuration

  • Introduction
  • Business Requirements
  • Design Goals
  • OpenVMS Cluster Interconnects
  • Learning Check

Cluster Troubleshooting: Connection Management and Port Issues

  • Introduction
  • Cluster State Transitions
  • CLUEXIT Bugchecks
  • Port Issues
  • NISCA Issues
  • Learning Check

Troubleshooting Basics

  • Introduction
  • Troubleshooting Basics
  • Troubleshooting Hardware Failures
  • Troubleshooting Software Failures
  • Availability Manager Concepts and Setup
  • Learning Check

Storage Overview

  • Introduction
  • Storage Overview
  • Storage Area Network (SAN) Concepts
  • RAID Concepts
  • HSx Controller (HSG)
  • Learning Check

Volume Shadowing for OpenVMS

  • Introduction
  • Volume Shadowing for OpenVMS Concepts
  • Creating a Shadow Set
  • Merge Operations
  • Managing Shadow Sets
  • Dissimilar Device Shadowing and Dynamic Volume Expansion
  • Volume Shadowing Bitmap and Mini-Copy
  • Booting from a Shadow Set
  • Learning Check

Managing Backup Tapes

  • Introduction
  • Backup Types
  • Devising a Backup Strategy
  • Managing Tape Volumes
  • Backup Interfaces
  • Backup Concepts
  • Backup Operations
  • Backing up a Shadow Set
  • Learning Check

SMP Concepts

  • Introduction
  • Synchronization
  • Uniform Memory Access
  • Non-Uniform Memory Access
  • Resource Affinity Domains
  • Fast Path Processing
  • Dedicated CPU Lock Manager
  • Learning Check

Hard Partitions

  • Introduction
  • Alpha Overview
  • Alpha Commands
  • nPartitions Overview
  • nPartitions Commands
  • Learning Check

Virtualization

  • Introduction
  • OpenVMS Virtualization Concepts
  • OpenVMS Virtualization Capabilities
  • Global Workload Manager (gLWM)
  • iCAP for OpenVMS
  • TiCAP for OpenVMS
  • PPU for OpenVMS
  • Learning Check

Establishing the Network

  • Introduction
  • Networking Environment
  • Networking Options
  • Viewing the Network Environment
  • LAN Failover
  • Learning Check

DECnet

  • Introduction
  • DECnet Phase IV and DECnet-Plus
  • Using DECnet-Plus
  • Learning Check

Local Area Transport (LAT)

  • Introduction
  • Viewing LAT Information
  • Learning Check

TCP/IP Networks Overview

  • Introduction
  • HP TCP/IP Services for OpenVMS
  • Network Concepts
  • Network Communication Essentials
  • IP Addresses (IPv4)
  • IPv4 Subnet Masks
  • Learning Check

TCP/IP Commands

  • Introduction
  • User Services
  • Management Examples
  • Modifying Subsystem Attributes in SYSCONFIGTAB.DAT
  • Learning Check

Configuring TCP/IP Services

  • Introduction
  • Pre-Installation Tasks
  • Installation and Upgrade
  • TCP/IP Configuration Files
  • DHCP Configuration
  • Manual Configuration
  • Starting and Stopping TCP/IP Services
  • Startup and Shutdown of Individual Services
  • Unix Services Database File
  • Managing User-Written Services
  • Configuring DECnet over IP
  • Learning Check

Protocols

  • Introduction
  • TCP/IP Services for HP OpenVMS
  • Network Standards
  • Physical Layer
  • Data Link Layer
  • Network Layer
  • Transport Layer
  • Serial Connections
  • Learning Check

Network File System (NFS)

  • Introduction
  • NFS Concepts
  • NFS Implementation
  • NFS Server File Systems
  • NFS Server Configuration
  • NFS Server Administration
  • NFS Client Configuration
  • Learning Check

Routing

  • Introduction
  • Routing Concepts
  • Static Routing
  • Dynamic Routing
  • Routing Daemon (ROUTED)
  • Gateway Routing Daemon (GATED)
  • Configuring Routing Examples
  • Learning Check

DNS and BIND

  • Introduction
  • Domain Name Service (DNS)
  • DNS History
  • BIND 9 for TCP/IP Services
  • Hierachical name format
  • DNS Master and Slave Servers
  • DNS Server
  • DNS Query Types
  • BIND Resolver
  • Querying the Name Server
  • BIND Configuration Examples
  • BIND 9 Security Enhancements
  • Configuring Key for Managing Server
  • Cluster Considerations
  • Learning Check

Bootstrap Protocol (BOOTP) and DHCP

  • Introduction
  • BOOTP (Bootstrap Protocol)
  • DHCP Concepts and Operation
  • Comparing DHCP and BOOTP
  • DHCP Configuration
  • Learning Check

Network Time Protocol (NTP)

  • Introduction
  • NTP and Time Synchronization
  • Quick Look at NTP
  • Configuration Modes
  • NTP Configuration
  • NTP Shutdown and Startup
  • NTP Utilities
  • NTP and DTSS
  • Troubleshooting NTP
  • NTP Example
  • Learning Check

Simple Network Command Protocol (SNMP)

  • Introduction
  • Agents and Management Stations
  • SNMP Communication
  • SNMP on HP OpenVMS
  • SNMP Through TCPIP$CONFIG.COM
  • Quick Look
  • SNMP Utilities
  • SNMP Troubleshooting
  • Learning Check

Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP)

  • Introduction
  • E-Mail Concepts
  • Using SMTP for Sending Mail
  • Receiving E-Mail via SMTP
  • Troubleshooting SMTP with Telnet
  • SPAM and SMTP AntiSPAM
  • Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP)
  • Post Office Protocol (POP)
  • Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME)
  • Learning Check

TCP/IP Troubleshooting

  • Introduction
  • General Troubleshooting
  • Configuration Troubleshooting
  • Network Troubleshooting
  • Lower-Level Protocol Testing
  • Network Interface Problems
  • Connectivity
  • Network Traffic Problems
  • Performance Tuning
  • Learning Check

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