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Lesson 1A: Design Goals for NonStop Servers
- 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
- The NonStop server and terminology
Lesson 1B: 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 exercise: NTL
Lesson 2A: NonStop Server Architecture Basics
- NonStop S-series and Integrity NonStop servers
- NonStop Advanced Architecture (NSAA) and terminology
- Integrity NonStop family
- NSAA and NonStop Value Architecture (NSVA)
- X and Y fabrics for fault tolerance
- Summary of peripheral and communications line connections
- Power architecture of NonStop S7x000 processors
Lesson 2B: Guardian User Interface and File System
- Guardian environment — authentication of users
- Managing the Guardian user environment
- File access codes — RWEP
- Lab exercises: basic commands, more TACL commands, using TEDIT, and printing
Lesson 3A: 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
- Message and file systems
- NonStop OS evolution
Lesson 3B: 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 exercises: fault tolerance, fault-tolerant processing, process control, TACL programming, and OSS
Lesson 4A: 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
Lesson 4B: 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
- Client access to Pathway servers
- Distributed Pathway applications
- iTP WebServer definition and processing modes
Lesson 4C: Application Services
- Application Servers/Transaction Processing (TP) monitors
- Tuxedo and NonStop Tuxedo definitions
- CORBA and NonStop CORBA definitions
- WebLogic Server (WLS) and WebLogic Server 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
Lesson 4D: Application Development Environment
- Tools and components
- HP Enterprise Toolkit (ETK) — NonStop edition
- Visual Inspect
- Eclipse and Eclipse for NonStop definitions and benefits
- Current Eclipse features
- Lab exercises: Pathway subsystem and requesters and servers
Lesson 5: 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
- Lab exercises: Enform Query Language, SQL Conversational Interface (SQLCI), and File Utility Program (FUP)
Lesson 6: NonStop Transaction Management Facility (TMF) and RDF
- NonStop server core services
- Preventing data integrity problems in OLTP environments
- ACID properties of transactions
- Transaction Management Facility (TMF)
- TMF audited files and audit-trail files
- TMF operation
- Volume and file recovery
- Remote Database Facility (RDF)
- RDF operational overview
- Summary of TMF and RDF database protection
- Lab exercise: data integrity
Lesson 7A: NonStop Server Manageability Strategy
- 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 - Total System Management (TSM) and Open System Management (OSM)
- OSM event viewer
- Installing software — DSM/SCM
- Configuring/reconfiguring the system — subsystem control facility
Lesson 7B: 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
- Lab exercises: measure tool and system control
Lesson 8: Security
- Security issues
- Guardian environment
- $CMON
- Comparing security in the OSS and Guardian environments
- Safeguard software
- Safeguard auditing
- Atalla encryption facilities
Lesson 9: Networking and Data Communications
- Networking requirements
- Communication with like systems
- The path to remote systems and devices
- Expand networking software
- NonStop (split-star) ServerNet cluster
- Communicating with specialized input devices
- Connecting to devices and other systems
- SWAN 2 concentrator and AWAN access server
- Summary of NonStop server networking capabilities
Lesson 10: Information Sources and Education Planning
- Sources of information on NonStop servers and software
- NonStop Enterprise Division web site
- Education and Training Center
- Curriculum paths
- International HP NonStop Users’ Group (ITUG) and regional user groups
- NonStop Enterprise Division field sales and support
- Global Mission Critical Solution Center (GMCSC) - product support
- Support optionss
Onsite Delivery 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
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