Concepts and facilities for HP NonStop systems

Course overview

This course is an extensive introduction to HP NonStop servers and to the system software that makes them reliable, scalable, open, and fast. It also covers NonStop server application, database, networking, security, and operations environment topics and is the foundation and prerequisite for most other NonStop courses. The four-day course is 60 percent lecture and 40 percent hands-on labs using HP servers.

Prerequisites

• Knowledge of basic computer and IT concepts

Audience

• Application designers and developers
• System managers and network managers
• Data communications programmers
• Technical support personnel

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Course objectives

• Understand the unique capabilities of HP NonStop servers
• Discuss the hardware and software architecture of Integrity NonStop servers and Integrity NonStop BladeSystem servers and understand how availability, data integrity, high performance, and flexibility are assured
• Learn the concepts and facilities for application development and management, database and system management, networking, and security
• Learn how to use the full capabilities of your system through hands-on lab exercises

Benefits to you

• Build your NonStop operating system knowledge to effectively utilize your NonStop system
• Increase your productivity by gaining experience with the Open System Services (POSIX-based) and Guardian interfaces
• Prepare for additional education in NonStop operations management and application development

Next Steps

Consider attending any of the beginning operations management, database, or programming courses in the HP NonStop Operations Management and/or Application Development (Guardian) curricula.

Course outline

Module 1 – An Introduction to HP NonStop Systems

• Characteristics of HP NonStop servers
• NonStop servers — the power of clustering and design goals
• Availability definitions
• Data integrity concepts
• High performance and scalability methods and strategies
• Open interfaces — Open System Services (OSS)
• Open cluster application protocols

Module 2 - NonStop Technical Library (NTL)

• NonStop Technical Library (NTL) concepts and home page
• Browsing and viewing NTL
• Using search facilities to find NTL documents and information
• Lab: NTL

Module 3 - NonStop Operating System (OS)

• The NonStop OS — code/system procedures stored in $SYSTEM.SYSnn
• Basic functions of the NonStop OS and the two alternative interfaces
• NonStop OS process management, states, and scheduling
• Why a message-based operating system?
• System and application processes
• Process pairs
• Message and file systems
• NonStop OS evolution

Module 4 – Guardian Environment

• Guardian environment — authentication of users
• Managing the Guardian user environment
• File security codes — RWEP
• Labs: basic Guardian commands; more TACL commands; using TEDIT, printing;
• fault tolerance; fault tolerant programming; process control; TACL programming

Module 5 - The Open System Services (OSS) Environment

• OSS definition
• NonStop facilities and tools based on OSS
• Guardian, OSS, and shared APIs
• OSS file system and types
• Guardian and OSS text files
• POSIX.2 shell and utilities
• Directories and filenames
• Lab: OSS

Module 6 - Requesters and Servers

• The primary goal
• OLTP requirements
• Application modularity basic design principle and advantages
• Introduction to Pathway and the requester-server model
• Requester-server approach
• Lab: requesters and servers

Module 7 - Pathway Application Environment

• The Pathway solution and components
• NonStop TS/MP components
• Pathway/iTS definition and components
• Terminal Control Program (TCP)
• Non-TCP access to Pathway servers
• RSC client access to Pathway servers
• Distributed Pathway applications
• iTP WebServer definition and processing modes
• Lab: Pathway subsystem

Module 8 - Application Services

• Application servers/Transaction Processing (TP) monitors
• Tuxedo and NonStop Tuxedo definitions
• CORBA and NonStop CORBA definitions
• WebLogic Server (WLS) and WLS on the NonStop server
• Summary of terminal-oriented and client/server application environments
• Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) definition, characteristics, and benefits
• SOA and the HP NonStop server

Module 9 - Application Development Environment

• Tools and components
• HP Enterprise Toolkit (ETK) — NonStop edition
• Eclipse and Eclipse for NonStop definitions and benefits
• Current Eclipse features
• Visual Inspect
• Code Coverage tools

Module 10 - Database Management

• Relational database systems
• Database file structures
• Partitioned and distributed files and tables
• Relational databases specifically designed for NonStop servers
• Database terminology
• Enscribe Database Record Manager
• NonStop SQL/MP
• NonStop SQL/MX
• Labs: Enform Query Language; SQL Conversational Interface (SQLCI); File Utility Program (FUP)

Module 11 - NonStop Transaction

• Management Facility (TMF) and Remote Database Facility (RDF)
• NonStop server core services
• Preventing data integrity problems in OLTP environments
• ACID properties of transactions
• Transaction Management Facility (TMF)
• Volume and file recovery
• Concurrency control
• TMF audited files and audit-trail files
• Remote Database Facility (RDF)
• RDF operational overview
• Summary of TMF and RDF database protection
• Lab: data integrity

Module 12 – NonStop Server Hardware Architectures

• Integrity NonStop servers and Integrity NonStop BladeSystem servers
• HP NonStop Value Architecture (NSVA)
• HP NonStop Advanced Architecture (NSAA)
• HP NonStop Multi-core Architecture (NSMA)
• ServerNet system area network
• X and Y fabrics for fault tolerance
• Cluster I/O Modules (CLIMs)
• Mirrored disks
• Power management

Module 13 - NonStop Server System Management

• NonStop server manageability strategy
• Element and enterprise management
• Problem detection - Event Management Service (EMS) and event messages
• Problem detection and response – EMS infrastructure and Virtual Hometerm Subsystem (VHS)
• System maintenance and service – Open System Management (OSM)
• HP Systems Insight Manager (SIM) and NonStop plugins
• Installing software — DSM/SCM
• Configuring/reconfiguring the system — Subsystem Control Facility (SCF)
• NonStop server system management issues
• What is different about managing a NonStop server?
• Availability issues
• Fault-tolerant application software
• Other availability issues
• Tuning goals
• System configuration impact on performance
• Process priorities
• Operations and system management issues — summary
• Labs: measure tool; system control

Module 14 - Security

• Security issues
• Guardian environment
• $CMON
• Comparing security in the OSS and Guardian environments
• Safeguard software
• Safeguard auditing
• Atalla encryption facilities

Module 15 - Networking and Data Communications

• Networking requirements
• Communication with like systems
• The path to remote systems and devices
• Expand networking software
• NonStop ServerNet cluster
• Communicating with specialized input devices
• Connecting to devices and other systems
• IP Cluster I/O Modules (CLIMs)
• ServerNet Wide Area Network (SWAN)
• Summary of NonStop server networking capabilities

Module 16 - Information Sources and Education Planning

• Sources of information on NonStop servers and software
• NonStop Enterprise Division web site
• Education and Training Center
• Curriculum paths
• Connect - International HP Users’ Group and regional user groups
• NonStop Enterprise Division field sales and support
• Global Mission Critical Solution Center (GMCSC) - product support
• NonStop support plans Onsite Delivery Equipment Requirements
• Windows-based workstations providing each student with access to a NonStop server
• Student and instructor access to: Internet, basic Guardian utilities, the Guardian spooler, TEDIT, TACL, and OSS Pathway, Enscribe and SQLCI, TMF, Measure, ViewPoint