Customizing the System (New Installations, Possibly Upgrades)

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Initializing or Configuring Installed Optional Components

Customizing the System (New Installations, Possibly Upgrades)

You can customize the system to meet your site-specific needs. In addition, if your Alpha or Integrity server computer is part of an OpenVMS Cluster environment, you must prepare the cluster environment and configure the cluster. The following subsections describe the customization tasks you can perform at this time. In general, these tasks apply to new installations only; however, in some cases, they may apply to upgrades. The tasks are as follows:

Create network proxy authorization files ( Creating Network Proxy Authorization Files)

Set up the queue manager and start the default batch and print queues ( Setting Up the Queue Manager and Default Queues)

Configure your multihead system if applicable ( Configuring a Multihead System (Optional))

Configure DECnet if it was installed or added during an upgrade ( Configuring DECnet)

Configure TCP/IP Services for OpenVMS if it was installed or added during an upgrade ( Configuring HP TCP/IP Services for OpenVMS)

If neither DECnet nor TCP/IP Services for OpenVMS is being used, install and configure third-party networking software if necessary ( Install and Configure Third-Party Networking Software)

Update SYSTARTUP_VMS.COM to have networking software start at boot ( Updating SYSTARTUP_VMS.COM)

For instructions on customizing the system, review the following documentation. Note that other customization tasks are described later in this chapter.

The release notes, for notes and restrictions that might be relevant to your customization plans

The HP OpenVMS System Manager's Manual, for instructions on customizing and using your system

Creating Network Proxy Authorization Files

After a new installation of OpenVMS that includes DECnet, or after an upgrade in which you have added DECnet, create your network proxy authorization files. These files include security authorization information for users using network proxy accounts. If you do not create these network authorization files before starting up your system, you might see messages such as the following during startup:

Message from user SYSTEM on HOMER
%SECSRV-E-NOPROXYDB, cannot find proxy database file NET$PROXY.DAT
%RMS-E-FNF, file not found

The NET$PROXY.DAT file is the primary network proxy authorization file. The other network authorization file to be created is NETPROXY.DAT. To create the network proxy authorization files, enter the following commands:

$ SET DEFAULT SYS$SYSTEM
$ MC AUTHORIZE CREATE/PROXY
$ SET DEFAULT SYS$LOGIN

Be sure you create the network proxy authorization files before starting the queue manager (as described in Creating Network Proxy Authorization Files).

If when you create the proxy files you see messages similar to the following, you can ignore them:

%UAF-W-NETCHANERR, error assigning a channel to NET:
-SYSTEM-W-NOSUCHDEV, no such device available

For more information about network proxy accounts and files, refer to the HP OpenVMS System Manager's Manual, Volume 1: Essentials. For more information about the AUTHORIZE utility, refer to the HP OpenVMS System Management Utilities Reference Manual: A--L.

Setting Up the Queue Manager and Default Queues

The initial installation of OpenVMS does not create the queue manager or any queues. HP recommends that you create the queue manager and your default batch and print queues now. When you install layered products (as described in Installing and Configuring Layered Products (New Installations, Possibly Upgrades)), some of these products will expect such queues to be present or will try to create queues themselves.

To set up the queue manager and a batch queue, enter the following commands at the OpenVMS DCL prompt:

$ START QUEUE /MANAGER /NEW_VERSION
$ INITIALIZE /QUEUE /START /BATCH SYS$BATCH

You normally create a queue manager only once. The system stores the START QUEUE command in the queue database to enable the queue manager to start automatically whenever the system reboots. If the queue manager has been started before on your system, do not specify this START QUEUE command again; the /NEW_VERSION qualifier will cause your system to overwrite your current queue database files.

As noted, the queue manager will automatically start when you next boot your OpenVMS system. To have the SYS$BATCH queue start automatically, remove the exclamation mark (!) from the following line in SYS$STARTUP:SYSTARTUP_VMS.COM. In that section, you can also define a default system print queue (SYS$PRINT).

$!$ START /QUEUE SYS$BATCH

For more information about starting and creating queues, refer to the HP OpenVMS System Manager's Manual, Volume 1: Essentials.

Configuring a Multihead System (Optional)

A multihead configuration consists of a single system (such as an HP AlphaServer ES40) that supports multiple graphics options. A graphics option consists of a graphics controller (card) and a graphics display interface (monitor).

Your system can be automatically configured for multihead use if you copy the private server setup template file to a command procedure file type (.COM). The DECwindows Motif server loads this command procedure on startup or restart.

To set up your system for multihead support:

After installing the DECwindows Motif software on your system, log in to your system.

Copy the private server setup template file to a new .COM file by entering the following command:

$ COPY SYS$MANAGER:DECW$PRIVATE_SERVER_SETUP.TEMPLATE
_To: SYS$MANAGER:DECW$PRIVATE_SERVER_SETUP.COM

Restart the DECwindows server by entering the following command:
```
$ @SYS$STARTUP:DECW$STARTUP RESTART
```

For more information about customizing your DECwindows environment using the SYS$MANAGER:DECW$PRIVATE_SERVER_SETUP.COM file, refer to the most recent version of the HP DECwindows Motif for OpenVMS Installation Guide and Managing DECwindows Motif for OpenVMS Systems.

Configuring DECnet

If you installed DECnet, or during an upgrade you added DECnet, you must configure DECnet now. Follow the instructions provided for the version of DECnet you installed.

If you installed DECnet-Plus for OpenVMS software, refer to the HP DECnet-Plus for OpenVMS Release Notes and the HP DECnet-Plus for OpenVMS Installation and Configuration manual for information about how to configure this software using the NET$CONFIGURE procedure.

If you installed DECnet Phase IV, refer to the DECnet for OpenVMS Guide to Networking.

Support for DECnet Phase IV is available only under the HP Prior Version Support Program. Contact your local HP support representative for additional information.

If you plan to run DECnet Phase IV for OpenVMS software, note the following:

After you have registered the license for the DECnet Phase IV for OpenVMS software, execute the interactive command procedure SYS$MANAGER:NETCONFIG.COM to automatically configure your system for networking. For instructions on using NETCONFIG.COM, refer to DECnet for OpenVMS Guide to Networking. After all commands have been performed, the procedure asks whether you want the DECnet software started. If the license has been loaded, answer YES.

Edit the commands in SYS$COMMON:[SYSMGR]SYSTARTUP_VMS.COM (as instructed in Updating SYSTARTUP_VMS.COM) that pertain to networking so that the DECnet Phase IV for OpenVMS software starts automatically when your system is booted. For instructions on starting DECnet Phase IV, follow the instructions in the current version of SYS$MANAGER:SYSTARTUP.COM. (Note that if DECnet-Plus is installed, it automatically starts; you do not have to edit SYSTARTUP_VMS.COM.)

Configuring HP TCP/IP Services for OpenVMS

If you plan to run TCP/IP Services for OpenVMS software, note the following:

After you register and load the license for TCP/IP Services for OpenVMS software, configure your system for networking by executing the interactive command procedure SYS$MANAGER:TCPIP$CONFIG.COM. Be sure to consult Chapter 3 of the HP TCP/IP Services for OpenVMS Installation and Configuration manual for specifics about configuring TCP/IP Services for OpenVMS, and to Chapter 4 of that manual for specifics about configuring IPv6 support.

After completing the configuration, edit the command pertaining to TCP/IP Services for OpenVMS in SYS$COMMON:[SYSMGR]SYSTARTUP_VMS.COM (as instructed in Updating SYSTARTUP_VMS.COM) so that the TCP/IP Services software starts automatically when your system is rebooted.

Do not configure TCP/IP Services for OpenVMS without first starting the queue manager.

Install and Configure Third-Party Networking Software

You will need networking software to download patches and as a requirement for certain layered products. If you are using neither DECnet nor TCP/IP Services for OpenVMS, you may want to install and configure third-party networking software now. Refer to the appropriate vendor's product documentation.

Updating SYSTARTUP_VMS.COM

This step applies mainly to new installations or to upgrades in which networking software was added. HP recommends that you have your networking software start automatically at system boot. Make this happen by editing SYSTARTUP_VMS.COM. This startup file provides startup commands for HP networking software and also includes startup commands for networking software provided by several other vendors. To enable automatic startup of any of these products, simply delete the exclamation point (!) from the beginning of the line containing the product's startup command. (If you are running DECnet-Plus, DECnet is already set up to start automatically each time you boot your system.)

For more information about updating SYSTARTUP_VMS.COM and starting networking software, refer to the HP OpenVMS System Manager's Manual, Volume 1: Essentials. Relevant information about networking software is also included in the HP OpenVMS System Manager's Manual, Volume 2: Tuning, Monitoring, and Complex Systems. For starting third-party networking software, refer to the appropriate vendor's product documentation.

Forming the Shadow Set

Initializing or Configuring Installed Optional Components