Re: Unix admin needs some pointers.
- From: "Andy Bustamante" <a_c_bustamante@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 05:33:19 GMT
If you have a training budget www.parsec.com and http://www.brudenossg.com/
provide excellent training. You can also look at http://www.bh.com/ for a
add on documentation. Depending on your location there are many outstanding
consultants who can provide you a baseline and some hands on training.
Depending on the system and how critical it is, I'd consider documenting
training shortfalls and potential issues. Nothing like a paper trail when
it starts to fly.
--
Andy Bustamante
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<jrmorrisnc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hello,
I've recently inherited a Alpha system running OpenVMS... I'm a Unix
admin, and this is in production for mission critical applications.
I have an old DEC VMS User Guide, and google, and of course a lot of
mindset and skills highly relevant to Unix systems and probably
detrimental on VMS systems.
I need pointers to a crash course in VMS administration. Or a book,
books, etc. I am a recent hire and the VMS admin was asked to leave
(despite my recommendations, in fact). What little documentation on
things like backup procedures and so forth tends toward the general and
vague rather than specific and procedural. I was hired as a Unix/Linux
admin, and at no point did I ever say or did my resume mention VMS.
Probably because I've never worked with it ;-). However, I've also had
it made abundantly clear to me that that is not a sufficient reason for
any failures to administer this system properly, immediately.
The help command and some web references have been helpful; I've found
the search command and how to move to the MFD of physical disks... But
to say I'm at a loss is an understatement.
One of the problems is backups have to continue properly, and another
is there are many DCL scripts that fire off reports to management about
the system, with the previous admin's e-mail address in them, which
unfortunately the searches I've done have not turned up all of them.
I'm being pressured to resolve that immediately if not sooner but I
have nothing much to go on.
I'm needing an overview of things like scheduling, what jobs are
running, auditing and accounting and reports, how things are laid out
(like, where's VMS's /etc & /var equivalents, or how is that sort of
thing handled?)...
I appreciate any advice or help anyone can offer, thanks much!
.
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