Compaq Advanced Server for OpenVMS Server Administrator’s Guide

This document is the "Compaq Advanced Server for OpenVMS Server Administrator's Guide," published in March 2001, for OpenVMS Alpha Version 7.2-1 and Advanced Server V7.3.

It provides step-by-step procedures for OpenVMS network administrators to manage and maintain the Compaq Advanced Server for OpenVMS, an OpenVMS-based network operating system compatible with Microsoft networking technology. The guide covers common administrative tasks and provides tools for managing various aspects of the server environment.

Key topics include:

• Overview of Administration: Role of the administrator, network components, resource sharing, and monitoring/troubleshooting.
• Domain and Server Management: Server roles (PDC, BDC, member server), security policies (account and audit), trust relationships, and operations in OpenVMS Clusters.
• User and Group Management: Creating, modifying, disabling, and deleting network user accounts and groups, including specifying passwords, logon hours, scripts, and host mapping.
• Directory and File Sharing: Planning and managing shared disk resources, security models (Advanced Server Only, Advanced Server and OpenVMS), file naming conventions, Unicode support, and using ODS-5 disk volumes.
• Printer Management: Sharing and managing OpenVMS print queues, print shares, and print jobs using ADMINISTER commands or Windows NT print services.
• Monitoring and Troubleshooting: Server event monitoring (alerts, event logs), log file analysis, and procedures for resolving common server problems related to domains, services, client connections, share access, printers, and user accounts.
• Server Configuration: Using the Configuration Manager and PWRK$REGUTL utility to modify server-specific parameters stored in the OpenVMS Registry, including client capacity, data cache size, process priority, and network transports.

The guide assumes the administrator is familiar with OpenVMS and network administration, and references other related Compaq Advanced Server and OpenVMS manuals.