VMS System and Network Management II

This document is a student workbook for a course on VMS System and Network Management II. It covers various aspects of managing VMS systems and networks, including:

• Managing Disks: This section covers VMS device names, device names in a VAXcluster, mounting and dismounting volumes, using the SHOW DEVICE command, creating volume sets, using disk quotas, and setting file characteristics.
• Using Logical Name Tables: This section explains logical names, logical name translation, search lists, system-created logical names, defining names in the system table, and the duration of logical names.
• Queue Management: This section covers queue facilities and operations, how VMS handles print and batch jobs, monitoring print and batch queues, and managing batch and print operations in a VAXcluster.
• Performing Backups and Restores: This section details making backup copies of files (image and incremental backups), using save sets, using the BACKUP command, restoring files from backup copies, and listing the contents of a save set.
• Introduction to System Customization: This section covers system startup files, configuring devices, defining system-wide logical names, installing paging and swapping files, general site-specific startup functions, login command procedures, and maintaining system parameters.
• Layered Product Installation: This section covers the overview of optional software products installation, the license management facility (LMF), managing product licenses, and installing layered products.
• Reporting on User Activity: This section focuses on collecting process information using the ACCOUNTING utility and producing reports.
• Maintaining System Security: This section discusses physical security, software security, VAXcluster security considerations, file security (erase-on-delete and erase-on-allocate), login security, intruder lists, UIC and ACL protection, tailoring user accounts, and conversational startup.
• Managing a Network Node: This section covers reviewing, starting, stopping, and monitoring the network, NCP overview, maintaining the DECnet configuration database, and executing remote commands.
• System Monitoring: This section focuses on using the MONITOR utility, monitoring with DCL commands, using the network control program (NCP), and using SHOW CLUSTER in a VAXcluster system.
• Developing Command Procedures: This section covers developing command procedures, passing parameters, using symbols, terminal I/O, controlling the flow of execution, and using lexical functions to manipulate data.
• Written Exercises and Laboratory Exercises: The workbook includes written exercises and laboratory exercises for each major topic to help students practice and test their skills.