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Course number U4147S
Length 4 days
Delivery method Remotely assisted instructional learning (RAIL)
Instructor-led training (ILT)
Onsite dedicated training ( OST)
Price USD $2,000
CAD $2,400

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 NonStop S-series and Integrity NonStop 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

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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