Who should attend
OpenVMS system managers, application programmers, and system programmers
Prerequisites
Students should have a fundamental understanding of system management and be able to:
- Set up accounts
- Use SYSGEN/SYSMAN to change a system parameter
- Run AUTOGEN
- Use the INSTALL utility
- INITIALIZE and MOUNT a disk
Students should also have a fundamental understanding of programming concepts, including:
- Understanding the purpose of a compiler
- Understanding the purpose of a linker
- Understanding how a computer executes a program
Course Objectives
Students attending this course should leave with an understanding of:
- How to isolate performance bottlenecks to one of the three subsystems
- The effects of SYSGEN parameters on each of the subsystems, when to change these parameters, and when other management modifications or the purchase of new hardware will be required
- Sufficiency (keeping the system running), as well as tuning considerations
- The relative merits/drawbacks of using AUTOGEN
Students attending this course should not expect to work with network performance or to find a magic system parameter that will make their system run faster.
Course Content
This five-day, hands-on, lecture/lab course presents OpenVMS performance under three subsystems: memory management, I/O, and CPU.