OpenVMS Management Station
Overview and Release Notes

Order Number: AA-QJGCE-TE

June 2002

This documentprovides an overview of OpenVMS Management Station and describes how to getstarted using the software.  Thisdocument also includes release notes for OpenVMS Management Station.

Revision/UpdateInformation:     This manual supersedes the OpenVMS Management Station Overview andRelease Notes, Version 3.0.

SoftwareVersion:                       OpenVMSManagement Station Version 3.2

OperatingSystem:                      OpenVMS AlphaVersion 7.3-1
OpenVMS VAX Version 7.3

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Preface

Overview.. 1

What IsOpenVMS Management Station?. 1

StorageManagement 2

PrinterManagement 3

AccountManagement 4

WhatIs an OpenVMS Management Domain?. 4

HowAre Systems in the Domain Organized?. 4

Whatis the Scope of an Operation?. 5

AvoidSurprises. 6

Choosinga Transport 6

OtherFeatures. 6

AreThere Restrictions on the Systems in an OpenVMS Management Domain?  7

How to Get Started. 9

BeforeYou Begin. 9

Whereto Find Information. 9

GettingStarted. 9

NextSteps. 16

StorageManagement Operations. 16

PrinterManagement Operations. 16

AccountManagement Operations. 17

Release Notes. 19

SupportedPlatforms. 19

Compatibilitywith Previous Versions. 19

SupportedConfigurations. 20

ImportantNotes. 20

KnownProblems and Restrictions. 20

OnlyCluster-Unique Devices Managed. 20

BoundVolumes Limited in Number of Members. 21

PrivatelyMounted and Foreign Volumes Not Managed. 21

FilesCreated After Error Is Logged. 21

Write-LockedShadow Sets Not Supported. 21

ClickingStop to Interrupt an Operation. 21

ServerBusy Message. 21

Settingthe DMA Attribute. 21

DECnetPhase IV Database and Proxies Issue. 22

RenamingUsers Resets New Mail Count 22

ManuallyEditing the UIC Group Number 22

TCPwarePrint Symbiont Limitation. 22

PrinterRename Fails for Reconciled Printers with DQS Queues. 22

DuplicateQueue Names on Create. 22

DestinationField Not Shown. 22

Installationon OpenVMS Version 7.2 and Later 22

ProblemsFixed in Version 3.2. 23

BadMagic Number Problem.. 23

Floodingof Monitoring Events. 23

IncorrectUpdating of Mount/Dismount Status. 23

ServerFailure. 23

ProblemRecognizing Fibre Channel Disk Devices. 23

ServerLooping. 23

PrimaryServer Selection. 23

ServerHangs on OpenVMS Version 7.3. 24

AdditionalNotes. 24

ExternalAuthentication. 24

FilteringUsers by Rights Identifier 24

Figures

Figure1  Volume Properties Dialog Box……………………2

Figure 2  Example ofan OpenVMS Management Domain…4

Intended Audience

This document is intended for systemmanagers, operators, and others who want to use OpenVMS Management Station tomanage user accounts, printers, and storage.

Document Structure

This document is divided into thefollowing chapters:

      Chapter 1 provides an overview of OpenVMSManagement Station and introduces new features for Version 3.2.

      Chapter 2 describes how to get startedusing the OpenVMS Management Station software. 

      Chapter 3 provides the release notes thatyou should read before you start to use OpenVMS Management Station.

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What IsOpenVMS Management Station?

OpenVMS ManagementStation is a powerful Microsoft Windows based management tool for systemmanagers and others who perform management tasks on OpenVMS systems.  OpenVMS Management Station provides acomprehensive user interface to OpenVMS account, printer, and storagemanagement.

OpenVMS ManagementStation is based on the Microsoft Management Console (MMC).  The Microsoft Management Console provides acommon management framework for various administration programs.  OpenVMS Management Station is implemented asan MMC snap-in and includes all of the MMC components you need.

OpenVMSManagement Station allows you to organize the systems you need to manage inways that are meaningful to you and your environment, and allows you to manage useraccounts, printers, and storage on those systems.

In addition, you caneasily manage user accounts, printers, and storage across multiple OpenVMSsystems.  For example, assume that youhave an account on three different OpenVMS Cluster systems.  With OpenVMS Management Station, you caneasily update a process quota, add a privilege, grant a rights identifier, andso forth, for each instance of the account.

OpenVMS ManagementStation consists of two components.  Youinstall the client software on a PC to perform all management operations.  You install the server component on all ofthe OpenVMS systems you want to manage. You do not interact directly with the server component.

·        RemoteManagement Support

You can use OpenVMS Management Station to remotely manageyour OpenVMS systems.  Once you establisha TCP/IP dialup connection, you can use OpenVMS Management Station to manageyour OpenVMS systems from home, while traveling, and so forth.

·        IntegratedWeb Features

MMC lets you insert World Wide Web URLs directly into the viewer and access themusing Microsoft Internet Explorer.  You can use this feature to addweb links of your own.  For example, youmight add a link to either an internal help desk page or to a system managementprocedures page.

·        Version3.2 New Features

Version 3.2 of the OpenVMS ManagementStation Client is supported on Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 2000, andWindows Me.  The OpenVMS ManagementStation Server is supported on OpenVMS Versions 6.2, 7.2, and 7.3.

OpenVMS Management Station Version 3.2provides Fibre Channel disk device support and architectural changes to makethe product more stable.  Read therelease notes in Chapter 3 for more release-specific information.

StorageManagement

Version 3.0 of OpenVMSManagement Station added storage management support, making it easy for you tomanage your disk storage devices across multiple OpenVMS Cluster systems.  You no longer need to maintain complicatedcommand files to control your storage environment.  You can create, delete, and manage storagefrom an easy-to-use Windows interface. 

OpenVMS ManagementStation makes it easy for you to manage a wide range of storage devices acrossmultiple OpenVMS Cluster systems.  Itprovides a database that can automatically determine and configure yoursystem's storage configuration at system startup.

Some of the tasks youcan perform are:

·        Monitor your storage configuration

·        Examine and modify storage attributes

·        Create volumes

·        Control configuration over reboots

Figure 1 shows an example of howOpenVMS Management Station displays volume properties.

Figure 1  Volume Properties Dialog Box

Features include:

·        Storage configurationmanagement

You can create, delete, and manage a disk volume under oneinterface.  Wizards make it easy tocreate a volume.

·        Configurationcontrol over reboots

If you allow it to, OpenVMS Management Station preserves thedisk configuration across reboots. OpenVMS Management Station can mount and maintain your storageconfiguration without intervention.

And, OpenVMS Management Station enhances performance becauseit mounts volumes much faster than is possible with DCL or command procedures.

·        Coexistencewith established environments

You do not have to change your existing DCL commandprocedures. You can use the display capabilities of OpenVMS Management Stationwithout having to use the automated mount feature.  In this way, you can give OpenVMS ManagementStation as little or as much control as you want.

In addition, the OpenVMS Management Station serverperiodically generates a DCL command procedure that includes the commands tomount all of the volumes managed by OpenVMS Management Station.  If you are familiar with DCL, you can look atthis command procedure to see what actions OpenVMS Management Station performsfor you.  And, in the event of either anunforeseen system problem or a corrupt server database (SYS$SYSTEM:TNT$ACS.DAT), you could use this command procedure to mountthe volumes.  The following is the nameof the generated file:

SYS$SYSTEM:TNT$EMERGENCY_MOUNT.COM.

The OpenVMS Management Station server limitsthis file to seven versions.

PrinterManagement

OpenVMS Management Station makes it easy for you to manage a widerange of printers and print queues across multiple OpenVMS Cluster systems andOpenVMS nodes.  In addition, the printermonitoring feature allows you to quickly detect and correct printer problems.

You no longer need tomaintain complicated command files to control your printer environment.  You can create, delete, and manage a printerand its related queues, as well as manage print jobs for those printers from aneasy-to-use Windows interface.

Some of the tasks youcan perform are:

·        Monitor one or more printers

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