topic Re: Learning OpenVMS? in Operating System - OpenVMS

Learning OpenVMS?

zoah666 — Wed, 21 Sep 2022 04:13:21 GMT

We recently acquired a piece of research equipment that is operated by two servers running OpenVMS 8.4. Honestly, prior to this device's arrival, I didn't even know this OS existed. Another admin dealt with the initial setup, but now I am being tasked with managing it. Does anyone here have any advice on how to learn how to manage this? Are there any resources on this still out there?

I have found only basic help files that describe commands. If there are any other kind of how-to's or resources you know of I'd really appreciate it!

Re: Learning OpenVMS?

Steven Schweda — Mon, 19 Sep 2022 17:08:44 GMT

> [...] Are there any resources on this still out there?

There are some. Did you try a Web search? I'd expect that to find
abundant material.

One place to start might be:

https://support.hpe.com/hpesc/public/docDisplay?docId=a00058693en_us

For newer material from its current vendor:

https://vmssoftware.com/
https://docs.vmssoftware.com/

There are, for example, an "OpenVMS User's Manual" and an "OpenVMS
System Manager's Manual".

Re: Learning OpenVMS?

Brad McCusker — Tue, 20 Sep 2022 21:10:52 GMT

There is still some things out there on the web but you could quickly get buried and lost in documents when all you really need is some basic information: How to boot and shutdown, basic things to keep an eye on, basic place to look for troubleshooting, etc.

My recommendation would be to hire someone to spend a few days with you going through the systems making sure to take good notes. There are more than a few people on this forum who could do this. Full disclosure, our firm can be hired for an engagement like this. I believe my contact information is publicly available in my profile on this site.

Good luck.

Re: Learning OpenVMS?

Sumit_Mandlik — Wed, 14 Jun 2023 08:17:49 GMT

Do you know someone from our organization who has worked on OpenVMS for doing health checkups on Itanium servers?
Or else monitoring any kind of servers?

Re: Learning OpenVMS?

Steven Schweda — Wed, 14 Jun 2023 12:28:54 GMT

> Do you know someone from our organization who has worked on OpenVMS
> for doing health checkups on Itanium servers?

Huh? What is "our organization"?

If you have some actual interest in OpenVMS, then you should start
your own new thread with a question which makes some sense, rather than
joining this noise-thread, whose actual purpose was to exhibit those
junk links under trxt copied from:

https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/402nne/learning_openvms/

This whole thread should be removed by a moderator.