OpenVMS System Management Utilities Reference Manual 1

This document is the "OpenVMS System Management Utilities Reference Manual: A–L", published in April 2001 by Compaq Computer Corporation. It provides reference information for system management utilities used with OpenVMS Alpha and OpenVMS VAX operating systems.

The manual covers the following utilities alphabetically from A to L: - Access Control List (ACL) Editor: Used to create and maintain ACLs for various object classes (e.g., Capability, Device, File, Queue), detailing ACE formats and qualifiers. - Accounting Utility: Generates reports on system resource use, with various qualifiers for selecting and formatting data (e.g., /ACCOUNT, /ADDRESS, /BEFORE, /BINARY, /BRIEF, /FULL, /JOB, /LOG, /NODE, /OUTPUT, /OWNER, /PRIORITY, /PROCESS, /QUEUE, /REJECTED, /REPORT, /SINCE, /SORT, /STATUS, /SUMMARY, /TERMINAL, /TITLE, /TYPE, /UIC, /USER). - Analyze/Disk_Structure Utility: Checks disks for inconsistencies, errors, and helps recover lost files, detailing its eight stages of verification and repair, and qualifiers like /CONFIRM, /HOMEBLOCKS, /LIST, /OUTPUT, /READCHECK, /RECORDATTRIBUTES, /REPAIR, /STATISTICS, /USAGE. - Audit Analysis Utility: Processes security audit log files to produce reports of security-related events, including commands like CONTINUE, DISPLAY, EXIT, HELP, LIST, NEXT FILE, NEXT RECORD, POSITION, SHOW and qualifiers like /BEFORE, /BINARY, /BRIEF, /EVENTTYPE, /FULL, /IGNORE, /INTERACTIVE, /OUTPUT, /PAUSE, /SELECT, /SINCE, /SUMMARY. - Authorize Utility: Manages user authorization records, network proxy authorization files, and rights database. Commands include ADD, COPY, CREATE/PROXY, CREATE/RIGHTS, DEFAULT, EXIT, GRANT/IDENTIFIER, HELP, LIST, MODIFY, REMOVE, RENAME, REVOKE, SHOW, and MODIFY/SYSTEMPASSWORD. - AUTOGEN Command Procedure: Sets system parameters and sizes for page, swap, and dump files, often run during installation or upgrades. It uses feedback for dynamic system sizing, operates in phases (SAVPARAMS, GETDATA, GENPARAMS, TESTFILES, GENFILES, SETPARAMS, SHUTDOWN, REBOOT, HELP), and lists files it uses. - Backup Utility: Prevents data loss by saving, restoring, copying, and comparing files, directories, or disks, covering image and incremental backups. It describes command line format, input/output specifiers, and qualifiers (e.g., /ALIAS, /ASSIST, /BACKUP, /BEFORE, /BLOCKSIZE, /BRIEF, /BUFFERCOUNT, /BYOWNER, /COMMENT, /COMPARE, /CONFIRM, /CONVERT, /CRC, /CREATED, /DELETE, /DENSITY, /EXACTORDER, /EXCLUDE, /EXPIRED, /FAST, /FULL, /GROUPSIZE, /IGNORE, /IMAGE, /INCREMENTAL, /INITIALIZE, /INTERCHANGE, /JOURNAL, /LABEL, /LIST, /LOG, /MEDIAFORMAT, /MODIFIED, /NEWVERSION, /NOINCREMENTAL, /OVERLAY, /OWNERUIC, /PHYSICAL, /PROTECTION, /RECORD, /RELEASETAPE, /REPLACE, /REWIND, /SAVESET, /SELECT, /SINCE, /TAPEEXPIRATION, /TRUNCATE, /UNSHELVE, /VERIFY, /VOLUME). - Crash Log Utility Extractor (CLUE) (VAX Only): Displays contents of crash history files, with commands like DELETE, DIRECTORY, EXTRACT, HELP, SHOW. - DECevent Utility: Event management utility for translating event log files into reports (full, brief, terse, summary, FSTERR), with qualifiers like /ANALYZE, /BINARY, /BEFORE, /BRIEF, /CONTINUOUS, /DUMP, /ENTRY, /EXCLUDE, /FSTERR, /FULL, /INCLUDE, /INTERACTIVE, /LOG, /MODEL, /NODE, /OUTPUT, /REJECTED, /SINCE, /SUMMARY, /TERSE, /TRANSLATE. - Error Log Utility: Selectively reports contents of error log files, generating various formatted outputs (full, brief, summary, register dump, binary copies). Qualifiers include /BEFORE, /BINARY, /BRIEF, /ENTRY, /EXCLUDE, /FULL, /INCLUDE, /LOG, /MODEL, /NODE, /OUTPUT, /REGISTERDUMP, /REJECTED, /SIDREGISTER, /SINCE, /STATISTICS. - Install Utility: Creates known file entries for executable and shareable images to enhance performance, assign privileges, and support user-written services. Commands include ADD, CREATE, DELETE, EXIT, HELP, LIST, PURGE, REMOVE, REPLACE and qualifiers like /ACCOUNTING, /ARBSUPPORT, /AUTHPRIVILEGES, /EXECUTEONLY, /HEADERRESIDENT, /LOG, /OPEN, /PRIVILEGED, /PROTECTED, /PURGE, /RESIDENT, /SHARED, /WRITABLE. - LAN Control Program (LANCP) Utility: Configures and controls LAN software, including obtaining device info, changing parameters, maintaining databases, and MOP downline load support. Commands include @ (Execute Procedure), CLEAR DLL, CLEAR DEVICE, CLEAR NODE, CONNECT NODE, CONVERT DEVICEDATABASE, CONVERT NODEDATABASE, DEFINE DEVICE, DEFINE NODE, EXIT, HELP, LIST DEVICE, LIST NODE, PURGE DEVICE, PURGE NODE, SET ACP, SET DEVICE, SET NODE, SHOW CONFIGURATION, SHOW DEVICE, SHOW DLL, SHOW LOG, SHOW NODE, SPAWN, TRIGGER NODE. - LAT Control Program (LATCP) Utility: Configures and controls LAT software (node and service characteristics, port driver state, status display, counters). Commands include ATTACH, CREATE LINK, CREATE PORT, CREATE SERVICE, DEFINE/KEY, DELETE LINK, DELETE PORT, DELETE QUEUEENTRY, DELETE SERVICE, EXIT, HELP, RECALL, REFRESH, SCROLL, SET LINK, SET NODE, SET PORT, SET SERVICE, SHOW LINK, SHOW NODE, SHOW PORT, SHOW QUEUEENTRY, SHOW SERVICE, SPAWN, ZERO COUNTERS. - Log Manager Control Program (LMCP) Utility: Creates and manages transaction logs for DECdtm services. Commands include CLOSE LOG, CONVERT LOG, CREATE LOG, DUMP, EXIT, HELP, REPAIR, SHOW LOG.

The document is primarily a reference manual, providing detailed syntax, parameters, qualifiers, descriptions, and examples for each utility. It also includes appendices on ACL editor keypad commands, customizing the ACL editor, accounting information for programmers, ANALYZE/DISK_STRUCTURE stage checks and usage files, security audit message format, and valid combinations of BACKUP qualifiers.