Course number HG776S

Delivery method
Remotely assisted instructional learning (RAIL)
Instructor-led training (ILT)
Onsite dedicated training (OST)

Course overview
The course also covers functional command use to allow monitoring system files with the use of FUP and monitoring the system spooler with PERUSE and SPOOLCOM commands. The 5-day course is 80 percent lecture and 20 percent hands-on labs using HP servers.

Prerequisites

• Concepts and Facilities for NonStop Systems (U4147S)
• At least 6 months operational experience on NonStop servers

Audience

• System operators
• System administrators
• System analysts
• Techincal support analysts

Course objectives
At the conclusion of this course you should be able to:

• Be familiar with the Integrity NonStop BladeSystem server architecture, OSM, TACL, and SCF commands
• Describe computing environments and operator tasks
• Start up, monitor, and shut down your NB-series server and its subsystems
• Change system configuration and recover from a previous setup
• Demonstrate the use of TACL, FUP, and SCF commands
• Describe how to manage security, disks, tapes, processes, and applications
• Demonstrate how to view, modify, and correct system spooler and print job problems
• Manage your Integrity NonStop NB-series server
• Identify and resolve common problems

Next steps
HP NonStop NB-series Server Administration II (HG777S)

Benefits to you

• Gain skills and knowledge needed to optimize Integrity NonStop BladeSystem servers so users experience smooth functioning IT operations
• Obtain valuable hands-on experience using OSM, TACL, and SCF commands

Course outline

Module 1 - Course Overview
Module 2 - Computing Environments and Operator Tasks

• Basic data processing
• Integrity NonStop BladeSystem operations
• Problem solving and problem prevention

Module 3 - NonStop Multicore Architecture (NSMA)

• NSMA overview
• The ServerNet environment
• Maintenance architecture
• Mirrored disk volumes

Module 4 - Operator Tools: TACL, OSM, and SCF

• Introduction to TACL
• The TACL environment
• Open System Management (OSM) overview
• Monitoring enclosures, hardware, and software
• Event Management Service (EMS)
• Monitoring processors
• The Subsystem Control Facility (SCF)
• Monitoring disks, printers, tape drives, and terminals
• Lab exercises: monitoring system hardware; SCF and hardware monitoring

Module 5 - Managing Files

• File system introduction
• The File Utility Program (FUP)

Module 6 - Managing Security

• Types of security issues
• Managing NonStop operating system security

Module 7 - Managing Disks and Tapes

• Disk volumes
• Introduction to the CLIM storage subsystem
• Introduction to the legacy storage subsystem
• SCF CLIM disk drive actions
• Checking disk drive actions
• Tapes and tape drives
• BACKUP and RESTORE operations
• Backup and restore operations for OSS and NonStop SQL/MX
• Labeled-tape operations using MEDIACOM
• Common tape problems
• Lab exercise: DSAP

Module 8 - Managing Processes and Applications

• Processes - background
• Common process problems
• Pathway/iTS applications
• Client/server applications
• NonStop Transaction Management Facility (TMF)
• Lab exercise: monitoring and manipulating processes

Module 9 - Managing Printers and the Spooler

• Spooler concepts
• Commom spooler and printer problems
• Working witb spooler jobs - PERUSE
• Lab exercise: printers and the spooler

Module 10 - Managing LANs and WANs

• Networking Cluster I/O Module (CLIM)
• IOAME network legacy connections
• Common problems - legacy connections

Appendix (optional) - HP Integrity NonStop Carrier-Grade BladeSystem Differences

• System description, characteristics, and features
• Carrier-grade requirements
• Commercial and carrier-grade comparison

Onsite Delivery Equipment Requirements

• One 2-processor NonStop NB50000c server with J06.03 or later version of the NonStop operating system
• One PC per student in the class with connectivity to the NonStop NB-series server
• One NB-series server with OSM console
• Spooler and associated software installed on the server

• Upis u radnu knjižicu: ne
• Certifikat: ne
• Uvjerenje: ne
• In-house: ne
• Svjedodžba: ne
• Diploma: ne