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Module 1: course introduction
Module 2: HP NonStop S-series servers
- Lesson 1a: Introduction to NonStop S-series Servers
- NonStop Server design goals
- Availability
- Data integrity
- Lesson 1b: Performance and scalability
- Compatibility and flexibility
- NonStop Server Software Environment
- Lesson 2: NonStop Server Software Environment
- Major functions of the NonStop Kernel file and message systems
- The role of process pairs in ensuring fault tolerance
Module 3: HP NonStop Systems Architecture
- Lesson 1: NonStop Server architecture
- The NonStop S-series and K-series server product lines
- Hardware and software fault tolerance
- Lesson 2: NonStop S-series Servers
- The ServerNet system area network (SAN) and the role it plays in meeting the demand for performance and scalability in NonStop S-series servers
- How HP provides hardware fault tolerance in its NonStop S-series servers
Module 4: NonStop Technical Library (NTL)
Module 5: NonStop S-series Server Architecture
- Lesson 1a: Introduction to NonStop S-series Servers
- Fundamentals of the ServerNet system area network (SAN)
- Comparing and contrasting NonStop K-series and NonStop S-series server architectures
- Lesson 1b: NonStop S-series server enclosures and components
- ServerNet communications (comm) subsystems
- Functions of the communications subsystems
- Purpose of the ServerNet LAN systems Access (SLSA) subsystem
- Lesson 1c: Purpose of the asynchronous wide area network (AWAN) subsystem
- Purpose of the wide area network (WAN) subsystem
- Supported communications products
- Lesson 1d: Non-supported communications products
- Introduction to the HP OSM application
- Serviceability and testability features of the NonStop S-series server
- New end-to-end service model
- Lab Exercise
- Lesson 2a: Data Transfer Through the ServerNet SAN
- Options for transferring data through the ServerNet SAN and its impact on I/O for NonStop Kernel systems
- Lesson 2b: Data transfer for interprocessor communications
- Standard model for I/O
- I/O models used for NonStop S-series server
- Layered model for I/O
- Lesson 3: ServerNet Hardware Overview
- Review of the fundamental elements of the ServerNet SAN
- Structure of a ServerNet packet
- Identifying the purpose of various fields within the ServerNet packet
Module 6: TACL
- Lesson 1: Introduction to TACL
- Lesson 2: File Terminology
- Lab Exercise: Using TACL
Module 7: PS text edit (TEDIT)
- Purpose of the TEDIT program
- Creating a document using TEDIT
Module 8: file utility program (FUP)
- FUP overview
- Nonstop Kernel files
- File names, filesets, and fileset lists
- Starting FUP interactively or non-interactively
- FUP commands
- Security levels for a file
- Common file system errors
- Lab Exercise: FUP and TEDIT Obey Files
Module 9: HP NonStop S-series Hardware Components and Power System Description
- Lesson 1: Processor and I/O Enclosure
- Subsystem Overview
- Processor enclosures
- I/O enclosures
- The NonStop S-series naming convention
- Lesson 2a: Power Subsystem Description
- Power subsystem of the NonStop Sx000, and Sxx000 server
- Power subsystem of the I/O enclosures
- Power system architecture
- Components of the power system
- Lesson 2b: Explanation of the power sequences
- Power monitor and control unit (PMCU)
- Power scrubbing background
- What power scrubbing does
- Description of some OSM event messages
Module 10: LAN Topologies, Media and Protocols
- Lesson 1a: Introduction to LAN Topologies, Media , and Protocols
- Definition of a LAN
- Common LAN topologies and variations
- Common Ethernet media types
- The Open Systems Interconnect (OSI) model and its relationship to LANs
- Lesson 1b: The access methods CSMA/CD and token passing
- Common protocols
- Describing in writing how to extend an Ethernet network
- Describing in writing the basic differences between a repeater, bridge, and router
- Lesson 2a – Networking Concepts Overview for the NonStop S-series Server
- Components of client/server computing
- Data communication protocols utilized by the TSM software
- Purpose of the Ethernet LAN as used by the NonStop S-series servers
- Lesson 2b: TCP/IP communications environment
- IP addressing, including classes, subnet addressing, and masks
- Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP)
- Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol (CHAP)
- Lesson 2c: Simple Network Management
- Protocol (SNMP), including its main components and use by OSM
- File transfer protocol (FTP)
- Remote Procedure Call (RPC) and its use with OSM
Module 11: Service Processor (SP) Functions and Features
- The service processor (SP) environment
- SP components at a block-diagram level
- SP configuration tables and their structure
- SP services and their functions
- Connectivity between the SP and the system
- PC console
Module 12: System Management Applications
- Lesson 1 – OSM Overview
- Lesson 2 - OSM configuration
Module 13 Introduction to Subsystem Control Facility (SCF)
- SCF overview:
- Subsystem managers
- Online configuration changes
- Security
- Brief explanation of:
- SCF commands
- SCF subsystems
- object types
- Identifying peripheral devices attached to your system
- Identifying the paths to those devices
- Determining what state the devices and paths are in
Module 14: Storage Subsystem
- Lesson 1: Disk Storage Subsystem
- Introduction to the disk storage subsystem
- System configuration and control by means of SCF
- Plug and play
- Online disk upgrade
- Enclosure interleaving for storage devices
- Lesson 2: Tape Storage Subsystem
- Introduction to the disk storage subsystem
- System configuration and control by means of SCF
- Plug and play
- Online disk upgrade
- Enclosure interleaving for storage devices
- Lesson 3a: Introduction to ServerNet/DA
- Adapter
- ServerNet/DA
- Supported products
- Installing the ServerNet/DA
- Legal configurations
- Lesson 3b: Configuring disk and tape devices
- Performing SAC installation and/or removal and replacement
- Nomadic disk
Module 15: Disk and Tape Utilities
- Lesson 1: Introduction to Disk and Tape
Utilities:
- Disk and Tape Utilities
- The BACKUP utility
- The RESTORE utility
- The BACKCOPY utility
- The labeled tape environment
- Processing modes
- MEDIACOM commands
- Lab Exercise: Tape Utilities
- Lesson 2: DSAP/DCOM
- Disk space utilization
- The Disk Space Analysis Program (DSAP)
- Methods of compressing disk space
- Using DSAP to determine file ownership and age
- Using DCOM to reallocate
Module 16: Peruse / SPOOLCOM
- Spooler subsystem
- Using Peruse to perform basic functions
- Determining the status of the job
- Re-assigning the job output location
- Deleting the job
- Identifying the spooler components
- Various states the spooler can be in
- Use SPOOLCOM to:
- Check the status of the spooler components
- Properly drain and restart the spooler and devices
- Lab Exercise: Using Peruse/Spoolcom
Module 17: System Monitoring
- Web Viewpoint
- The Web ViewPoint product
- Features and benefits
- Main components of Web ViewPoint
- Starting Web ViewPoint
- Using Web ViewPoint
- Customizing object trees
- Lab Exercise: Using Web ViewPoint
Module 18: Processor Recovery Operations
- Lesson 1: Memory Dumps
- Identify processor problems
- Determining when a processor memory dump
should be performed
- Performing a processor memory dump
- Additional information to include when sending a dump to the GCSC
- Lesson 2: Tandem Failure Data System (TFDS)
- Benefits of TFDS
- Components of TFDS
- Configuring TFDS
Module 19: Server Configuration and Management
- Various types of configuration files
- Creating a base configuration
- Creating a user configuration
- Online configuration changes
- NonStop Kernel configuration services SCF0000, STARTCOM, and STARTSCF files
- Lab Exercise: Using SCF to Manage and Configure a NonStop S-series server
Module 20: Software Management
- Lesson 1a: Software Management Using DSM/SCM and SYSGENR
- How an OSIMAGE is created using SYSGENR
- How SYSGENR is run
- Files that result from a SYSGEN operation
- Features and capabilities of DSM/SCM
- Lesson 1b: Typical DSM/SCM process flow
- Five actions performed by the DSM/SCM application for software management
- Contents of the CONFTEXT file
- Changes to the ALLPROCESSORS paragraph
- Lesson 2: Electronic Delivery And Installation of SPRs
- Access IPM Scout
- Search for an IPM
- Access IPM details
- Download an IPM
- Lesson 2b: Upload an IPM
- Use SWARCSET
- How to request a software update tape (SUT)
- How to request an Independent Product
- Software Product Relationship Query (SPRQ)
- Lab Exercise: Using the DSM/SCM Planner Interface
Module 21: NonStop S-series Server Maintenance and Expansion
- Lesson 1a: Online CRU Replacement
- Physical and functional characteristics of PMF and IOMF CRUs
- How the loss of a PMF or IOMF CRU in an enclosure affects the adapters in associated enclosures
- Lesson 1b: Replacing a PMF or IOMF CRU online
- Steps necessary to resume operations
- Using the Guided Replacement Tools for online removal and replacement of PMFs, IOMFs, NonStop Sxx000 power supplies, and ServerNet Device Adapter (SNDAs)
- Lab exercise:
- Removing and Replacing a PMF CRU
- Removing and Replacing an IOMF CRU
- Lesson 2a: Online Expansion and Reduction
- Understanding the prerequisites and planning requirements
- Building blocks
- Lesson 2b: Preparing your target system Preparing a block
- Adding a block to your target system
- Verifying the resized system
- Lab Exercise: Expanding a 4-Processor System to a 16-Processor System (Including I/O Enclosures)
Module 22: NonStop S-series Communications Subsystems
- Lesson 1: Expand Networks
- Basic Expand architecture
- Expand components
- New features and functions that let Expand work with the ServerNet Cluster more efficiently
- Lesson 2a: ServerNet Lan System Access (SLSA) configuration and management
- Matching components with product name and number
- Functions of the SLSA components
- SCF/SLSA object hierarchy
- Lesson 2b: Recommended names of the SLSA adapter components
- SLSA and QIO subsystem relationship
- Steps to install the adapters
- Features of the Fast Ethernet ServerNet adapter (FESA)
- Lesson 2c: The 6763 Common Communications ServerNet adapter (CCSA) components
- Functions of CCSA components
- The SCF/CCSA object hierarchy
- Recommended names of the CCSA components
- Lesson 3a: ServerNet Wide Area Network (SWAN) Concentrator configuration and Management
- SWAN 2 (3881) concentrator hardware components
- Processes required for proper SWAN and SWAN 2 operation
- Lesson 3b: IOPs available for use with the SWAN and SWAN 2 concentrators
- Startup files used to configure processes for proper SWAN operation
- Using Wan Wizard Pro to configure a SWAN or SWAN 2 concentrator
- Lab Exercise: Installing and Configuring a SWAN Concentrator
Onsite-Delivery Equipment Requirements
- Each group of two students requires a minimum of:
- One 2-processor model NonStop Sxx000 server with G06.21 or later version of the NonStop Kernel operating system (4-processor system recommended)
- One I/O expansion enclosure with cables for each processor enclosure
- One PC workstation per student
- One S7X-iPAQ PC TSM console
- Two ServerNet expansion boards (6750) (may be replaced by MSEBs (6750M). MSEBs are required if ServerNet clustering is being taught
- Two 3861 ServerNet Ethernet adapters with cables
- One 3880 SWAN or 3881 SWAN 2 concentrator with cables and 2 two multiport Ethernet hubs
- Three multiport Ethernet hubs, including cables
- One 5525B printer or equivalent
- One tape drive (525x, CT9840, 519x, etc.) and appropriate tape cartridges and cables
- Optional equipment:
- Two 6760 ServerNet/DA adapters with cables and a minimum of one F-SAC for each SNDA
- One 455MOD8 disk module with at least two drives
- One 6760 ServerNet/DA adapter with cables and a minimum of one S-SAC
- Two 6740 ServerNet/FX or 6742 ServerNet/FX2 adapters with cables
- One 3863 Fast Ethernet ServerNet adapter
- A minimum of two systems as listed above is required for the class
- ServerNet cables of appropriate length are required to connect the servers to form one server during the class
- Additional optional equipment:
- Two ServerNet Cluster Switches (SC-xx) as appropriate for the location with NNA PICs, and appropriate PICs and cables as required for the system
- Two modular ServerNet expansion boards (6750M) with appropriate PICs for the selected cable types (ECL, SMF, MMF, SCu) and appropriate cables
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