HP OpenVMS System Management Utilities Reference Manual 1

This document is the HP OpenVMS System Management Utilities Reference Manual: A–L, published in July 2006 (Order Number: BA555-90003).

It provides reference information for System Management utilities used with OpenVMS Alpha and I64 operating systems, superseding Version 8.2. The manual covers utilities alphabetically from A to L, including:

• Access Control List Editor (ACL editor): For creating and managing Access Control Lists on various object classes (e.g., files, devices, queues).
• Accounting Utility (ACCOUNTING): For generating reports on system resource usage, with options to filter, sort, and format output.
• Analyze/Disk_Structure Utility: For checking disks for inconsistencies, repairing errors, and examining shadow sets.
• Audit Analysis Utility (ANALYZE/AUDIT): For producing reports from security audit log files to identify security-related events.
• Authorize Utility (AUTHORIZE): A system management tool to control system access and allocate resources, managing user authorization records, network proxy authorization files, and rights databases.
• AUTOGEN Command Procedure: For automatically setting system parameter values and sizing system page, swap, and dump files, also incorporating feedback from the running system.
• Backup Utility (BACKUP): For creating copies of files, directories, and disks to prevent data loss, supporting various operations like save, restore, copy, compare, and list.
• COPY/RECORDABLE_MEDIA (CDDVD) Utility: For creating Compact Disk (CD) and Digital Versatile Disk (DVD) media on OpenVMS.
• Crash Log Utility Extractor (CLUE) (VAX Only): Used on VAX systems to display contents of crash history files.
• Error Log Viewer Utility (ELV): For examining error log files in a user-readable format, converting, dumping, and translating event data.
• InfoServer Utility (Alpha and I64 Only): For creating and managing virtual disk services on a local area network.
• Install Utility: For creating and managing known file entries to improve the performance of executable and shareable images.
• LAN Control Program (LANCP) Utility: For configuring and controlling LAN software and hardware.
• LAT Control Program (LATCP) Utility: For configuring and controlling LAT software on OpenVMS systems.
• Log Manager Control Program (LMCP) Utility: For creating and managing transaction logs used by DECdtm services.

The manual is intended for system managers and users of these utilities, providing detailed descriptions, formats, parameters, qualifiers, and examples for each command.