VAX/VMS UETP

This guide explains the function and provides operating instructions for the VAX/VMS User Environment Test Package (UETP), released in August 1978. The UETP is a collection of tests designed to verify the proper functioning of a VAX/VMS system's hardware and software components, ensuring they work both individually and as an integrated system in an environment similar to normal timesharing. Its primary users are manufacturing technicians and DIGITAL field service/software support personnel, though customers can also use it.

The UETP tests standard devices like disks, line printers, magnetic tapes, and terminals; various native mode functions (system services, VAX-11 RMS, native mode utilities, and optionally the VAX-11 FORTRAN IV-PLUS compiler); most RSX-11M utilities in compatibility mode; and the system's multiuser capability. It does not test optional compilers (other than FORTRAN IV-PLUS) or network devices.

The UETP can be run automatically via a master command procedure or by initiating individual test phases. These phases include:

1. Initialization: Gathers system configuration information and performs basic read/write tests to confirm device operability.
2. I/O Device Test: Creates detached processes to simultaneously test various device types connected to the system.
3. Native Mode Test: Exercises VAX/VMS-specific software services and utilities.
4. System Load Test: Simulates multiple concurrent users to stress system resources.
5. Compatibility Mode Test: Verifies RSX-11M utilities running under the Application Migration Executive (AME).
6. Termination: Cleans up temporary files and can restart for continuous runs.

Operating instructions detail preparing the system (booting, logging in as SYSTEST, setting up scratch disks and magnetic tapes, configuring terminals/printers), defining UETP variables (output level, number of load test users, number of runs, magnetic tape for specific tests), and interpreting output. While the UETP provides status and error messages through console logs and detailed log files, it does not diagnose the cause of errors; users are directed to VAX/VMS error logging and diagnostic facilities for deeper investigation.