HP NonStop Transaction Management Facility (TMF) operations and management

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Prerequisites

• NonStop S-series Server Administration I (U5448S) and NonStop S-series Server Administration II (U5449S) or
• NonStop NS-series Server Administration I (U8528S) and NonStop NS-series Server Administration II (U8638S) or
• Concepts and Facilities for NonStop Systems (U4147S) and
• System management experience on NonStop K-series, S-series, or NS-series servers

Audience

• Database administrators
• System managers
• System operators
• Technical support analysts

Ways to save

Next steps

• Consider attending the other optional and advanced learning courses in the HP NonStop Operations Management curriculum

Benefits to you

• Learn how to use the appropriate TMFCOM commands to perform monitoring and configuration activities and routine maintenance on NonStop TMF objects
• Improve operational efficiencies by gaining valuable hands-on experience running and configuring TMF
• Learn how to recover from accidental or intentional database modification or deletion by enabling your applications to use NonStop TMF software

Course outline

• Module 1 - Introduction to transaction management
• Challenges and solutions in maintaining an online database
• Purpose and function of the different database protection strategies
• Protection terms and concepts associated with a database
• Lab: data integrity
• Module 2 - NonStop TMF components
• Major software and system components of NonStop TMF and their functions
• System and software components necessary for NonStop TMF to provide both minimum protection and full protection functions
• Database protection fundamental design of NonStop server hardware and software
• Module 3 - NonStop TMF configuration planning and installation
• NonStop TMF configuration examples with and without file recovery
• Choosing appropriate values for the NonStop TMF configuration attributes
• Subsystem and application impact of specific operations
• Lab: utilities for NonStop TMF operations
• Module 4 - NonStop TMF operations overview
• Routine and corrective NonStop TMF operations and management tasks
• Display information from TMFCOM commands
• Use of other system utilities to perform NonStop TMF proactive tasks
• Module 5 - NonStop TMF catalog operations
• TMFCOM commands to use and manipulate the NonStop TMF catalog
• Lab exercises (4 hours):
  • NonStop TMF labeled tape processing
  • NonStop TMF dumps and file recovery
  • NonStop TMF dump operations
• Module 6 - NonStop TMF data volume operations
• Data volume manipulations
• Online dumps
• Volume recovery
• File recovery
• Module 7 - NonStop TMF audit-trail operations
• Multivolume audit trails
• Audit-trail volume manipulations
• Audit-trail files
• Overflow volumes
• Restore volumes
• Labs:
  • NonStop TMF operator messages
  • NonStop TMF configuration
  • NonStop TMF data volumes
  • NonStop TMF audit trail operations
• Module 8 - NonStop TMF transaction operations
  • Local transactions
  • Distributed transactions
  • Heterogeneous transactions
  • Transaction thresholds
• Module 9 – TMF and TMFCOM features added in G06.17
• General enhancements
• Summary of G06.17 TMF updates
• TMFCOM general enhancements
• TMFCOM history buffer
• Added TMFCOM command options
• OBEYFORM option
• Improved wildcard function

 

Onsite-delivery equipment requirements

• One dedicated NonStop S-series server with a minimum of:
• NonStop Kernel operating system, version G06.10 or later
• Six disk volumes in addition to the system disk
• 96 MB memory per CPU
• One 3613/5 Ethernet controller
• TCP/IP software package (SD20)
• One STK 4480 SILO with 25 tapes
• One PC per student and one PC for the instructor with projection capabilities
• All PCs must have outside view and have connectivity to the server
• No other use of the NonStop TMF subsystem by any other class or product
• One volume that can be taken down multiple times in class to demo a crashed database

Or

• Exclusive access to the customer's NonStop TMF subsystem
• One volume that can be taken down multiple times to demo a crashed database
• One PC, workstation, or terminal with Outside View and TCP/IP LAN connectivity to the NonStop server per student and one for the instructor*

Note: The recommended maximum class size is 10 students.