Table 1 Postinstallation and Postupgrade Checklist
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For a newly installed system disk,
you can back up the disk. (At this point, you could just as well
reinstall OpenVMS onto the disk instead.)
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-form the shadow set. As an
optional precaution, you can back up the system disk as well.
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Backing Up Your System Disk
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Register any licenses that were
not registered during the installation; for an upgrade, register
any new licenses.
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Registering Your Licenses
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New installations only
(optional): Set system parameters to enable volume
shadowing
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Set System Parameters for Volume Shadowing (New Installations Only; Optional)
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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 installations, some upgrades: 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, install and configure third-party networking software
if necessary. Networking software is required to download patches
and for certain layered products.
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Installing and Configuring Third-Party Networking Software
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Update SYSTARTUP_VMS.COM to have networking software
and other products start at boot. After an upgrade, do this only
if 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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Create or edit a system-specific or
clusterwide login welcome message SYS$MANAGER:WELCOME.TXT (optional).
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Creating a System-Specific Login Welcome Message (Optional)
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Upgrades 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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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 installations, some upgrades: Install
and configure layered products.
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Installing and Configuring Layered Products (New Installations, Some Upgrades)
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New installations, some upgrades: Create
print queues.
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Creating Print Queues (New Installations, Some 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, Some 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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Upgrades 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 or a typical
application work load 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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