Learning OpenVMS?

[zoah666]

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!

[Steven Schweda]

> [...] 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".

[Brad McCusker]

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.

[Sumit_Mandlik]

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?

[Steven Schweda]

> 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.