HP OpenVMS Systems

• Monday 1PM - 4PM - Hanover
  • 201B T4&Friends Introduction 1PM - 2PM
  • 201C T4&Friends Engineering Support 2PM - 3PM
  • 201D T4&Friends Advanced Hands On 3PM - 4PM
• Wednesday 9AM - 12PM - Hanover
  • 201B T4&Friends Introduction 9AM- 10AM
  • 201C T4&Friends Engineering Support 10AM - 11AM
  • 201D T4&Friends Advanced Hands On 11AM - 12PM

The T4 block's purpose is to provide basic, intermediate, and advanced training in the T4 & Friends performance monitoring toolset. The last eight years have seen VMS Engineering Support develop a toolset known as 'T4 & Friends', which the VMS Engineering Support group uses extensively in their work with customers and partners. Many customers and partners have deployed this tool set to engage in system performance collaboration between all parties.

This block's sessions are designed to give a 'soup to nuts' coverage of the T4 & Friends toolset, from the very basics of obtaining, installing, running, and analyzing output with T4 & Friends, actual experiences with the toolset from the field, and effective use of the advanced features of the tool set.

201B - T4 & Friends Introduction
Session Level: Basic
Instructor: Pat McConnell
Session Abstract:
Over the past eight years, OpenVMS Engineering has developed a set of 21st century tools and methods that improve collaboration about system performance issues between all interested parties. These have collectively been referred to as "T4 & Friends". In fact, the VMS Engineering Support group uses these tools extensively in their work with customers and partners. This session is an introduction to T4 & Friends that will show you what tools are available, where to get them, how to begin to use them, and what benefits they bring compared to previous approaches.

This is a hands-on session. Though not a requirement, a laptop running a recent version of Microsoft Windows will allow participants to work with TLViz, the T4 data visualizer.

An advanced T4 session is also available during the boot camp for those who would like to advance further

201C - T4 and VMS Engineering Support
Session Level: Basic/Intermediate
Instructor: Kevin Jenkins, and Tom Cafarella
Session Abstract:
OpenVMS Engineering Support engages with VMS customers and partners to collaboratively resolve system performance problems. The T4 & Friends toolkit is key to the successful resolution of problems in the system performance domain, and this session walks participants through several real world VMS system performance problems solved with the T4 & Friends toolkit.

This is a hands-on session. Though not a requirement, a laptop running a recent version of Microsoft Windows will allow participants to work along with the presenters in order to directly experience the T4 & Friends problem solving process.

201D - T4 & Friends Advanced Hands-on Workshop
Session Level: Advanced
Instructor: Pat McConnell
Session Abstract:
In the past year, there have been marked advances in the capabilities of the T4 & Friends tools set for VMS performance. This session will focus on these new features, on the most advanced and complex features, and on the ways that the different component s of this tool set integrate with each other. Topics will include:
CSVPNG advanced features
VEVAMON - VMS EVA Monitor advanced features
T4V4.2 new features
Feedback on improving T4 & Friends

This will be part presentation and part hands-on session using TLViz and CSVPNG and other tools to analyze interesting T4-style data sets.

This would enable multi site OpenVMS Cluster customers with the ability to use common carrier IP services which is now becoming a defacto standard.

In this session we will cover the following aspects of IPCI.

1: Architectural overview
2: Configuration and troubleshooting
3: Demonstration of a VMS cluster using IP Cluster Interconnect.

We look forward to collect feedback from our valued customers and to sign up interested participants for IPCI field test.

This session will help you improve your I/O performance, it reviews various ways of reducing physical I/Os, focusing on caching and the eXtended File Cache (XFC).

Some of the tools that will be discussed are caching options in SHOW MEMORY, XFC SYSGEN parameters, XFC SDA extension and more.

Perl through its powerful associative arrays and regular expression, can be a great tool to for text parsing and data manipulation.

This session will introduce the audience to using Perl from a DCL script writing vantage point. The session assumes no knowledge of Perl, just an open mind. It will provide an introduction to the language and regular expressions and basic Perl coding practices. The session will compare DCL and Perl solutions for several example problems.

Learning objectives:

• Exploit existing filesystem information
• Using PC tools to analyze OpenVMS data
• System monitoring and tuning methodology, based on file system activity.

This session will provide an introduction to RMS and File system understanding and tuning, with a focus on Indexed files, but also addressing directories, file allocation and fragmentation.

The frequent problem areas for indexed files such as: index depth, duplicate key chains and buffer choices will be highlighted.

The session will review the OpenVMS provided tools such as ANALYZE/RMS, EDIT/FDL and CONVERT as well as several freeware tools: DFU, RMS_TUNE_CHECK, RMS_STATS.

Learning objectives:

• OpenVMS file system overview
• Indexed file intro
• Indexed file tuning checklist.
• RMS default settings

The talk will examine some of the recent technologies such as AJAX (Asynchronous Javascript for XML) and its use in solving the challenges outlined above.

This talk discusses the reasons Service Oriented Architecture has become increasingly important as IT responds to its updated mission to help the enterprise meet broad business goals. It shows how SOA is a more business-centered approach to the technology infrastructure, creating a new paradigm for organizing and using services i.e., standard, repeating business functions such as _check the customer_s credit in a consistent and measurable way.

A specific focus is put on how this new architecture improves instruction level parallelism and branch handling, reduces memory cost and supports modular code. Additional topics planned for coverage in this session are: Intel Itanium, roadmap, chips and functionality implemented in the recent multi-core processors, together with a comparison to the Alpha CPUs.

For some customers this means migrating from one to another operating system which can't help but result in comparisons to each other operating system. In this session, we deal with the two HP developed operating systems which run on HP's Integrity Server platforms: HP-UX and OpenVMS.

The purpose of this session is to provide a technical side by side comparison of the features and functionality of these two mission critical operating systems and looking at them from a migration point of view. Covering topics such as clustering, security, storage, file systems, system administration and management, availability, and application development, the audience should come away with a better understanding of how these two OS's compare: their similarities (they are much more similar than you might think), differences, strengths (and yes, maybe even weaknesses), together with migration issues.

While each OS's purists might hope this session is a "My OS is better than your OS" discussion, the presenter will have none of that! This will be a fair, informative and balanced comparison of these two workhorse operating systems.

Emphasis in this session will also be put on what is different from Alpha servers especially in the RAS (Reliability, Availability, Scalability) area. At the end of this session participants will have learned which HP Integrity server systems are currentl y available and how to compare them. Some performance data will be provided, but benchmarks will not be covered in detail.

USB V2.0 support - faster DVD installation!

Online Firmware Updates - upgrade your Integrity Firmware using a PCSI installation kit!

Console - The VGA is now supported as a console - discussion of the many ways to connect a console to Integrity today and tommorrow - and a guide to what we think is best for you.

After a short introductory presentation the students will examine the components that make up the 4400. The students will then wire the components together and then use the Windows based _Command View EVA to create and present virtual disks to an OpenVMS host.

It also looks further into the future of the network industry and what OpenVMS is doing to remain current.

We will start with a simple requirement and build upon it throughout the session. By the end of this session you will:

• Understand the architecture of TCP/IP
• Be able to administer TCP/IP on your own OpenVMS system
• Be aware of common misunderstandings
• Learn about the life and times of a TCP/IP packet
• Use basic troubleshooting techniques

The information in this course will help the network administrator optimize network performance and minimize network service disruptions. These factors directly impact a company's productivity and network costs.

General Topics:

CPU Time

Time spent in Modes, in particular Kernel Mode, Interrupt State Time, and MP Synchronization Time.

Process Scheduling States

Paging Metrics

I/O Metrics

2. Installing and Configuring CIFS as member server to an active directory domain with tdbsam backend on a standalone node and in cluster

3. CIFS process oerview, CIFS features, cluster support

4. Winbind functionality

5. VMS specific support - ODS2 and ODS5 support, VFS layer

6. Managing CIFS - This will cover:

a. adding/modifying/deleting users and groups

b. adding/modifying/deleting file shares, setting permissions on shares using domain and local CIFS users and groups, inheritance of permissions on shares, supporting VMS permissions

c. managing printer shares

d. Various administrative and management tools - net command, smb utilities etc

7. Troubleshooting and debugging techniques

8. Limitations

9. Supported and unsupported features

10. ASV and CIFS comparison

11. Future work.

The session will describe best practices in completing a port from Alpha to Itanium, coding considerations, as well as tools to aid in the port. Aside from general issues, we will discuss porting and performance issues with layered products including Oracle 10g RAC and Java on IA64 systems.

Topics:
General Porting Issues
General Performance Experiences
Alignment Faults
HyperThreads
Oracle 10g RAC on IA64
Java on OpenVMS Integrity

Objectives

By the end of this session the student will have had an introduction to the Itanium architecture, be able to use the system dump analyzer (SDA) in the analysis of bugchecks, and be able to recognize some similarities and differences in crash dump analysis on OpenVMS Alpha and OpenVMS Integrity Servers.

Note: Although this session builds upon the information presented in the "Getting Started with OpenVMS Integrity Crash Dump Analysis" session, that session is not a prerequisite for this session.

Abstract:

This session begins by presenting some basics of the machine check mechanism on OpenVMS Alpha systems. Next, two examples of software induced machine check crashes are discussed. Each analysis begins by extracting the error log entries from the system d ump file. These entries are then analyzed using either DECevent or WSEA (System Event Analyzer) to determine the true cause of the bugcheck. SDA (the System Dump Analyzer) is then used to confirm what was found in the error log.

This session brings together a variety of topics that relate to running Oracle 10g on OpenVMS. The session provides a general introduction on Oracle 10g RAC:

What is RAC?
What are the advantages of running RAC?
How to configure systems for achieving maximum availability with RAC?

The second part of the session focuses on performance. It provides a performance comparison between Oracle on Alpha and Oracle on Itanium. The session introduces several performance tools (some bundled with Oracle some external).

Topics:
Oracle 10g RAC overview
Configuring Oracle 10g RAC for high availability Real life Performance comparisons _ Oracle 10gR2 Alpha Vs. Itanium Impact of enabling HyperThreads in an Oracle environment Oracle Performance tools

Clustering,storage considerations, logical assignment locations, phased migrations, special tools and licenses available from HP

We will take the student from a bare-bones Blade all the way to booting OpenVMS on the blade.

Students in this hands-on session will do the provisioning at their own pace and be able to ask questions as they go.

We will demonstrate remote installation of OpenVMS both with and without HP SIM.

Students are encouraged to attend John Shortt's presentation prior to attending this session.

Many new features and data collectors have been added to HP PERFDAT since last time it was presented at the Bootcamp 2007.

This session starts with an overview of the main features and basic concepts of HP PERFDAT. In the main part of the session the new features of HP PERFDAT will be explained in detail and a life-demo of the new EVA (HP StorageWorks Virtual Array) extension of HP PERFDAT will be provided a new EVA data collector fully integrated into the HP PERFDAT environment that provides a complete set of EVA performance data, friendly name resolution but the does not depend on the availability of the SAN appliance

Non-cluster aware applications do not synchronize access to shared resources within an OpenVMS cluster. Thus, such applications can run only on one cluster member at a time. Without using OSC or another application management software with the same functionality a non-cluster aware applications has to be restarted manually on the same or another cluster member node if it fails due to a hardware or software fault.

HP OpenVMS ServiceControl monitors applications running on an OpenVMS cluster and all their required resources. If the cluster member on which an application is running fails, or if a particular required resource fails, HP OpenVMS ServiceControl relocates or restarts the application depending on the type of failure and the failover policy applied. OSC guarantees that if an application has to fail over to another cluster member that it is started only on a node on which the required resources are available or where the required resources can be started. A resource is any hardware or software entity, such as a disk, file system, network card (NIC), IP address, a database and/or any kind of application.

Due to the design of HP OpenVMS ServiceControl it is very easy to create a new OSC agent for a particular resource type by providing monitor, start and stop command scripts or C functions that are compiled and linked against the OSC agent framework librar y.

HP OpenVMS ServiceControl provides most of the features of the VERITAS cluster server (VCS) for UNIX systems plus some additional OpenVMS specific add-ons. The semantics of the OSC management and configuration utilities is also similar to VCS. Hence, if y ou already know VCS the HP OpenVMS ServiceControl training effort required is minimal.

In this session the main features and basic concepts of HP OpenVMS ServiceControl will be presented.

The Internet is an insecure communication network; the growth of Internet services poses problems of security assurance such as providing trustiness of on-line transactions, guaranteeing user privacy, and furnishing message confidentiality.

This session describes issues related to sending documents via certified email, as required bylaw, and discusses legislation concerning the security of message services for public administrations, which specifies requirements, modalities and rules for the application of server-to-server cryptography technique.

The challenge for effective secure email is to ensure that these users can seamlessly send and receive secure messages without needing special knowledge or software, and without changing the way they already work. This session will introduce the issues of cryptography and digital signature of the Certified Email System (PEC) designed and developed by National Center for Computer Science (CNR) of Italy; The PEC successfully passed the interoperability, technical and functioning tests based on the technical rules for certified email and carried out by CNR in the Public Administration of Italy; the PEC system architecture and the functions of its components are described in detail. This session shows how CNR has, over the past years, developed and implemented a certified email solution that is easy to install, maintain, and use, and that meet all government mandatory security standards.

This session focuses on the basics of Rdb database administration, based on 20+ years of experience supporting Rdb data abases in a variety of environments. This session provides a guide to "best practices" for managing Rdb databases, including both what you MUST do -- as well as what NOT to do. We will cover everything from the basics of file-placement and backup strategies to more advanced topics like implementing a high-performance Row Cache and Hot-standby databases.

While specific to Rdb, may of the "best-practices" also apply to other database engines...If your data is important, this session is a "must-attend".

This session addresses system management approaches that can be used to maximize the usefulness of a crash dump, and discusses changes in recent versions of VMS that improve the performance of system dumps.

1) Setup of XFC for maximum performance

2) Use of both permanent and dynamic memory

3) Tools a system manager can use to monitor caching performance.

The student will:

Learn how to make the RMS characteristics stored in a file header match the actual format of the records stored in the file.

Learn how to patch out a corrupt block in a .DIR file

Learn how to repair a corrupt RMS sequential file.

Learn several repair methods for corrupt RMS indexed files.