TCPIP IGUIDE.PDF

This document, "Digital TCP/IP Services for OpenVMS: Installation and Configuration" (Part Number: AA-LU49H-TE, November 1995), serves as a guide for system and network managers to install, configure, and optimize the Digital TCP/IP Services for OpenVMS (UCX) software. It is applicable to OpenVMS VAX (versions 6.0, 6.1, 6.2) and OpenVMS Alpha (version 7.0) systems running UCX Version 4.0.

The document is structured to walk users through the entire process:

1. Installation: Provides a recommended order for installation, instructions for backing up the system disk, registering a License Product Authorization Key (PAK), and detailed steps for using either the VMSINSTALL or POLYCENTER Software Installation (PCSI) utility. It also covers upgrading existing UCX installations.
2. Configuration: Outlines the steps for initial setup, including configuring standard UCX software via interactive menus or direct commands, setting up optional components (such as PATHWORKS/DECnet/OSI over UCX, SRI QIO Interface, and Anonymous FTP accounts), starting and testing the UCX configuration using the Internet Installation Verification Procedure (IVP), and completing post-configuration tasks (like automatic startup/shutdown, populating databases, setting up DECwindows for TCP/IP applications, and refining NFS Server and Client configurations).
3. Customizing the OpenVMS Environment: Explains how to modify OpenVMS system resources for optimal UCX performance, specifically addressing how to check and increase global pagelets and global sections, expand the nonpaged dynamic pool, increase interrupt stack pages (for VAX systems only), and assign User Identification Codes (UICs).

The manual also includes appendices with examples of installation and configuration scripts, lists of installed UCX and PATHWORKS-related files, and a comprehensive glossary of TCP/IP and networking acronyms.