DECEVENT IGUIDE.PDF

This document is the Installation Guide for the DECevent Event Management Utility for OpenVMS (Version 2.1, dated October 27, 1995).

It provides instructions for system managers and users on how to install and deinstall the DECevent utility on OpenVMS Alpha systems (minimum OpenVMS Alpha Version 6.2).

Key topics covered include:

• Preparation: Inventorying the distribution kit, checking system requirements (e.g., at least 35,000 free disk blocks, increased User Authorization File (UAF) page file quota of 65,535 blocks, and a JTquota of 8192 for the FIELD account).
• Installation: A step-by-step example of the installation process using VMSINSTAL, which typically takes 3-15 minutes. It notes that a Product Authorization Key (PAK) license is required for analysis and notification features, and DSNlink is necessary for System Initiated Call Logging (SICL).
• Postinstallation: Instructions for adding DECevent to site-specific startup and shutdown procedures, ensuring help files are inserted, enabling SICL, and crucially, deleting the old FMG_LOCAL_PARAM_LIBRARY.KNL knowledge library when upgrading to prevent issues.
• Deinstallation: A guide to removing the utility, including the prerequisite to disable automatic analysis before starting the procedure.
• Limitations: The guide explicitly states that DECevent does not support merging events from cluster nodes into a common database, nor is it supported in mixed-architecture cluster environments.

An appendix provides a command summary for system managers for common installation and deinstallation tasks.