Table 1 Postinstallation and Postupgrade Checklist
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For a newly installed system disk,
you can optionally back up the disk; you could just as well reinstall
OpenVMS onto the disk.
For a newly upgraded
system disk, if it is not going to be a shadow
set member, back up the system disk as a safeguard before proceeding
with the next steps. If your newly upgraded system disk is going
to be a shadow set member, re-formthe shadow set instead of backing
up the disk.
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Backing Up Your System Disk
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Register any licenses that have
not been registered during the installation; for an upgrade, register
any new licenses.
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Registering Your Licenses
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Set system parameters to enable volume
shadowing (new installations only, optional)
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Set System Parameters for Volume Shadowing (New Installations Only; Optional)
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Tune BAP system parameters (Alpha
upgrades only)
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Tuning BAP System Parameters (Alpha Upgrade Only)
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If you want to form a shadow set
for a newly installed system disk, you can do this now or later.
If you upgraded a disk in a volume shadowing environment, re-form
the shadow set.
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Forming the Shadow Set
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New installation (possibly
upgrade): Perform the following tasks that generally
apply to new installations only but could also apply after an upgrade:
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Create proxy files if required.
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Creating Network Proxy Authorization Files
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Set up the queue manager and start the
default batch and print queues.
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Setting Up the Queue Manager and Default Queues
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Configure a multihead system, if applicable.
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Configuring a Multihead System (Optional)
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Configure DECnet if it was installed.
After an upgrade, perform only if DECnet was added during the upgrade.
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Configuring DECnet
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Configure TCP/IP Services for OpenVMS if it
was installed. After an upgrade, configure TCP/IP Services only
if it was added during the upgrade.
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Configuring HP TCP/IP Services for OpenVMS
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If you are using neither DECnet nor TCP/IP
Services for OpenVMS, install and configure third-party networking software
if necessary. You need networking software to download patches and
as a requirement for certain layered products.
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Install and Configure Third-Party Networking Software
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Update SYSTARTUP_VMS.COM to have networking software
start at boot. After an upgrade, do this only if networking software
was added during the upgrade.
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Updating SYSTARTUP_VMS.COM
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Initialize or configure the following
optional products, as needed:
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Initialize CDSA.
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Initializing CDSA (Optional)
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Configure Availability Manager.
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Configuring the Availability Manager Base Software (Optional)
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Configure Kerberos.
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Configuring Kerberos (Optional)
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Initialize and run the Performance Data Collector
base software, TDC_RT.
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Initializing and Running the Performance Data Collector Base Software (Optional)
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Prepare your OpenVMS system and your PC to
run OpenVMS Management Station, and follow procedures in
Preparing to Use OpenVMS Management Station.
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Preparing to Use OpenVMS Management Station (Optional)
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Install OpenVMS Debugger clients on a PC.
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Installing OpenVMS Debugger Clients on a PC (Optional)
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Create or edit a system-specific
login welcome message SYS$MANAGER:WELCOME.TXT (optional).
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Creating a System-Specific Login Welcome Message (Optional)
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Upgrade only: Examine
command procedures for which the upgrade may have provided new template
files.
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Examining Your Command Procedures (Upgrades Only)
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Add and remove operating system
files (optional).
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Adding and Removing Operating System Files (Optional)
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Expand the
system libraries using LIBDECOMP.COM (optional, Alpha only).
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Expanding the System Libraries (Optional, Alpha Only)
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Download and apply any relevant
OpenVMS or networking patches that are available (optional but recommended).
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Installing Patches (Optional but Recommended)
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New installation (possibly
upgrade): Install and configure layered products.
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Installing and Configuring Layered Products (New Installations, Possibly Upgrades)
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New installation (possibly
upgrade): Create print queues.
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Creating Print Queues (New Installations, Possibly Upgrades)
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Update SYSTARTUP_VMS.COM to have
layered products, print queues, and other products or devices start
at boot.
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Updating SYSTARTUP_VMS.COM to Start Layered Products and Print Queues
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Create user accounts.
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Creating Accounts (New Installations, Possibly Upgrades)
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Run the User
Environment Test Package (UETP) to test the system (optional).
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Testing the System with UETP (Optional)
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Back up the system disk and start
a systematic routine for backing up the application, data, and user
disks.
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Backing Up the Customized System Disk and Initiating Systematic Backups
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If the system
disk was pulled out of the shadow set and all the appropriate postupgrade
steps recommended in this chapter thus far were performed on that
disk, then re-form the shadow set once again.
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Reforming the Shadow Set as Final Postupgrade Backup
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Upgrade only: Reboot
cluster members (if applicable).
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Rebooting Cluster Members (Upgrades Only)
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Tune your operating system: after
the system has run for at least 24 hours with users on the system,
run AUTOGEN to collect feedback and, if necessary, modify the MODPARAMS.DAT
file.
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Running AUTOGEN to Tune the System
Modifying System Parameters
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