OpenVMS System Manager's Manual

This manual, intended for OpenVMS system managers, is the second part of a task-oriented guide to managing an OpenVMS system, published in May 1993. It covers essential topics for system optimization and maintenance, including:

• System Parameter Management: How to understand, modify, and manage system parameters using utilities like AUTOGEN, SYSMAN, and SYSGEN, including conversion of customized settings.
• System Files Management: Guidance on managing page, swap, and dump files, including calculating appropriate sizes, creating, installing, and removing them.
• Performance Considerations: An introduction to performance management, understanding workloads, tuning strategies, and using utilities like INSTALL to optimize image performance and conserve memory.
• System Information & Monitoring: Details on utilizing system log files, error logging, security auditing, and the Monitor utility for performance analysis.
• Resource Tracking: Methods for tracking resource usage through accounting files, including determining tracked resources, starting new files, and generating reports.
• VMScluster and Network Management: Concepts and utilities for managing VMScluster systems, DECnet networks (configuration, security, monitoring), InfoServer systems, and LAT (Local Area Transport) software.
• Special Processing Environments: Managing multiprocessing (SMP) and VAX vector processing environments.
• Files-11 Disk Structure: An appendix detailing disk concepts and reserved files.

The document serves as a comprehensive reference for system managers to tune, monitor, and manage complex OpenVMS environments efficiently.