Module 1: Course Overview

• Course highlights
• Course objectives

Module 2: Open System Services (OSS) Overview

• Define the Open System Services (OSS) subsystem
• Identify the components of the OSS environment
• Define the OSS fileset
• Review the Nonstop Operating System process components

Lab: OSS overview

Module 3: Management Tools

• Identify the key tools needed to managed the OSS subsystem
• Subsystem control facility (SCF)
• Backup/Restore 2.0
• Pax
• Tar and uncompress
• Event management service (EMS)
• SSH
• VPROC
• VERSIONS utility

Lab: Management Tools

Module 4: Basic OSS Installation Overview

• Identify the steps used to install the OSS subsystem
• Identify the steps used to start the OSS subsystem
• Identify the utility used to remove the OSS subsystem
• Identify the steps used to remove OSS subsystem

Lab: Basic OSS installation

Module 5: Configuring OSS

Module 6: Creating Filesets—Considerations

• Display fileset information
• Identify creation pool volume list volumes for each fileset
• Determine the number of filesets required
• Determine the number of name servers required

Lab: Configuring OSS filesets

Module 7: Creating Filesets

• Describe a fileset's key attributes
• Note how a fileset's mount point directory should be secured
• Describe a fileset's AutoStart feature
• Learn the steps involved in creating a fileset

Lab: Creating OSS filesets

Module 8: OSS Auditing

• Identify security considerations
• Fileset auditing
• File auditing
• Access control lists (ACLs)
• Restrict Privileged Access
• Describe the security event-exit process (SEEP) feature

Module 9: Catalog Maintenance

• Catalog Volume Tool (CVT)
• Checking and reloading catalog files
• FSCK
• Checking and repairing a fileset
• Fileset capacity summary
• Catalog maintenance

  • Check a catalog
  • Remove a catalog
  • Repair a catalog
  • Check a fileset
  • Repair a filese

Lab: OSS catalog maintenance

Module 10: Configuring the OSS Printing Environment

• Identify the OSS printing configuration
• Identify the OSS printing utilities

Lab: Configuring the OSS printer service

Module 10: Configuring Reference Pages

• Locate the reference page files
• Configure the reference page environment variable
• Configure the whatis database

Lab: Configuring reference pages

Module 11: Configuring Reference Pages

• Locate the reference page files
• Configure the reference page environment variable
• Configure the whatis database

Lab: Configuring reference pages

Module 12: OSS NetBatch Jobs

• Submitting OSS jobs with BATCHCOM
• How to handle exceptions

Lab: Creating OSS Netbatch jobs

Module 13: Configuring FTP, FLOSS AND SAMBA

• Review FTP commands
• Configure the anonymous FTP user
• Install/configure FLOSS—Freeware Look for OSS
• Install/configure SAMBA—SMB Fileserver

Lab: FLOSS and SAMBA

Module 14: Post-Installation Topics

• Identify commands to use for performance maintenance
• Identify commands used to find temporary files
• Identify commands used to defragment and free disk space
• Identify commands used in process management
• Identify commands used for managing shared resources

Lab: Maintenance topics