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Open System Services (OSS) Adv. Commands and Utilities for HPE Nonstop Servers

U5517S

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U5517S

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2 days

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ILT/VILT

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Course ID

U5517S

Duration

2 days

Format

ILT/VILT

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  • Overview

    OSS is the open interface to the HPE Nonstop Kernel operating system running on HPE Nonstop servers. This course focuses on advanced OSS commands and utilities, with special emphasis on those that make it possible to interoperate between the Guardian environment and the OSS environment.


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  • Audience

    This course is ideal for:

    • UNIX application designers and developers who are preparing to work in the OSS environment
    • UNIX system administrators who will have responsibility for managing HPE Nonstop servers
    • Experienced HPE Nonstop server application designers and programmers who are preparing to work in the OSS environment
    • HPE Nonstop system managers with basic OSS knowledge who are interested in expanding their skills
  • Course objectives

    After completing this course, you should be able to:

    • Know how to use open system services (OSS) on HPE Nonstop servers
    • Understand the interoperability between the OSS and Guardian environments
  • Course outline

Module 1: Introduction to OSS
  • What is an open system?
  • OSS and Guardian comparisons
  • OSS vs. UNIX
  • Advantages of OSS

Module 2: The OSS Shell
  • Terminal requirements
  • OSS shell and utilities overview
  • Accessing OSS
  • Configuring the OSS service
  • Modifying the user environment
  • Shell environment variables

Lab: Managing your OSS environment


Module 3: OSS Commands
  • Editing files
  • Commands and utilities
  • Using pax to archive and recover files
  • Compressing files
  • Load balancing

Module 4: OSS File System
  • File system characteristics
  • Common directories
  • File types
  • OSS pathnames to Guardian files
  • OSS filesets
  • POSIX and Guardian security
  • Converting OSS files to their physical file names

Lab: OSS file permissions


Module 5: OSS/Guardian Interoperability
  • The osh bridge program
  • The gtacl bridge program
  • Accessing the /G and /E fileset extensions
  • Using the OSSTTY program
  • Spooling operations
  • Interoperability considerations

Labs:

  • OSS to Guardian interoperability
  • Printing from OSS

Module 6: Command Scripting
  • Comments and metacharacters
  • Shell scripts
  • Variables
  • Control structures
  • Test command
  • Expr and read commands
  • Arguments
  • Error tracing
  • Miscellaneous statements
  • Arithmetic on shell variables
  • Let and select commands
  • Functions and function management

Lab: Command scripting


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