OpenVMS System Management Utilities Reference Manual 2

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

Key utilities and their functionalities covered include:

• Monitor (MONITOR): A system management tool for obtaining operating system performance data, offering options for recording, displaying, and summarizing system activities across various classes like CPU, memory, disk I/O, lock management, network activity, and process states.
• Point-to-Point Protocol Utility (PPPD): Used to initiate and manage PPP network connections and define physical link parameters on OpenVMS Alpha hosts.
• POLYCENTER Software Installation Utility (PRODUCT): Facilitates installing, reconfiguring, and removing software products, managing the product database, listing available kits, and extracting files from kits.
• SCA Control Program Utility (SCACP): Monitors and manages cluster communications, including virtual circuits, channels, and LAN devices, and helps troubleshoot communication problems.
• Show Cluster (SHOW CLUSTER): Monitors OpenVMS Cluster system activity and performance, displaying information on circuits, cluster status, connections, counters, credits, errors, local ports, members, and systems. It offers customization options for display.
• System Generation Utility (SYSGEN): A privileged tool for tailoring a system's hardware and software configuration, including managing system parameters, loading device drivers, and creating page/swap files.
• System Management Utility (SYSMAN): Centralizes system management for nodes and clusters, allowing tasks such as setting disk quotas, managing licenses, configuring automatic login facilities, modifying SYSGEN parameters, building startup procedures, managing cluster parameters, loading system services, and shutting down nodes.

The manual also includes supplemental information on MONITOR record formats, keypad commands for the Show Cluster utility, and detailed descriptions of OpenVMS system parameters and their attributes across various categories like ACP, Cluster, Job, LGI, Multiprocessing, PQL, RMS, SCS, SYS, and TTY.