Open System Services (OSS) operations and management for HP NonStop systems

Prerequisites

• Six months experience as a NonStop Administrator and
• OSS Advanced Commands and Utilities for NonStop Servers (U5517S) or six months UNIX experience and
• Experience with system management tools, such as FUP, SCF, and Safeguard

Audience

• HP NonStop System Administrators

Benefits to you

• Become familiar with Open System Services (OSS) architecture, interfaces, and procedures
• Gain skills needed to optimize HP NonStop systems so users experience smooth functioning IT operations
• Gain valuable hands-on experience managing an Open System Services (OSS) environment

Course Objective

• Identify the components of the Open System Services (OSS) subsystem
• Configure the OSS subsystem and its components
• Identify steps to configure, install, mount, and delete a fileset
• Understand the OSS user requirements and how to create user identities
• Use and maintain OSS subsystem resources
• Understand post-installation tools and procedures

Course outline

Module 1 - Course Overview

• Course highlights
• Course objectives

Module 2 - Open System Services (OSS) Overview

• Open System Services (OSS) definition
• OSS environment
• OSS fileset, hierarchy, and versions
• OSS limits
• System process overview
• User equivalencies
• Managing OSS servers
• OSS pipe server and extended segment
• File manager
• OSS monitor and name servers
• Lab: OSS overview

Module 3 - Installation Tools

• Event Management Service (EMS)
• Persistence monitor
• SCF and subsystem managers
• Checking for virtual volumes
• Checking OSS disk volumes with SCF
• Checking the telserv configuration
• Safeguard review
• OSS hierarchy archive facility
• OSS object file version determination
• OSS versions utility
• Lab: installation tools

Module 4 - Basic OSS Installation Overview

• OSS EasySetup and EasySetup files
• The OSSSETUP utility
• OSS load processes
• STARTOSS
• OSSINF file content
• STOPOSS
• OSSREMOV utility
• Removal procedure
• Lab: basic OSS installation

Module 5 - Configuring OSS

• /etc/profile
• Securing filesets
• Security options
• System user IDs and aliases
• User and user group attributes
• Remote passwords
• Initial home directory
• File sharing groups
• Configuring the OSS service
• Network services
• Periodic tasks
• Lab: configuring OSS

Module 6 - Creating Filesets - Considerations

• OSS processes
• OSS fileset pathname support
• OSS fileset disk-file storage pool
• Multiple fileset support and considerations
• Multiple name servers
• Creation pool volumes and lists
• Fileset considerations
• Lab: configuring OSS filesets

Module 7 - Creating Filesets

• Fileset attributes overview
• Fileset attributes
• Reasons to add a fileset
• Fileset auto start
• Subsystem Control Facility (SCF)
• Lab: creating OSS filesets

Module 8 - OSS Auditing

• OSS fileset auditing overview
• Safeguard Access Control Lists (ACLs)
• Setting AUDITENABLED
• Safecom audit G06.25
• OSS file auditing overview
• Audit Client OSS (ACO)
• Access control
• Security groups
• Secure shell

Module 9 - Catalog Maintenance

• Catalog Volume Tool (CVT)
• Checking and reloading catalog files
• FSCK
• Checking and repairing a fileset
• Fileset capacity summary
• Lab: OSS catalog maintenance

Module 10 - Configuring the OSS Printing Environment

• SPOOLER review
• Printing in the OSS environment
• OSS printing facility
• Lab: configuring the OSS printer service

Module 11 - Configuring Reference Pages

• The man utility
• Locating online documentation
• The whatis database
• Lab: configuring reference pages

Module 12 - Configuring FTP

• FTP server
• FTP server support
• Anonymous FTP
• Anonymous logon

Module 13 - Post-Installation Topics

• OSS maintenance
• Defragmentation
• Compressing files
• BACKUP and RESTORE 2.0 utility
• OSS process management
• Interprocess Communication (IPC)
• Shared resource management
• Guardian and OSS text files
• OSS file purge protection
• Lab: maintenance topics

• Equipment:
• Cs or workstations with a terminal emulator such as OutsideView:
• NonStop server with the NonStop kernel operating system, version G06 or later for NonStop S-series servers
• Software:
• Safeguard activated
• OSS configured and activated