Postinstallation and Postupgrade Tasks
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Use the checklist in Table 7-1 “Postinstallation and Postupgrade Checklist” to ensure that you perform all necessary postinstallation or postupgrade tasks. Unless indicated otherwise, these tasks are applicable as both postinstallation and postupgrade tasks.
Table 7-1 Postinstallation and Postupgrade Checklist
| Task | Section | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| For a newly installed system disk,
you can back up the disk. (At this point, you could reinstall OpenVMS
onto the disk instead.) For a newly upgraded system disk, if it is not going to be a shadow set member, back up the system disk as a safeguard before proceeding with the next steps. If your newly upgraded system disk is going to be a shadow set member, re-form the shadow set. As an optional precaution, you can back up the system disk as well. | “Backing Up Your System Disk” | ||
| Register any licenses that were not registered during the installation; for an upgrade, register any new licenses. | “Registering Your Licenses” | ||
| New installations only (optional): Set system parameters to enable volume shadowing. | “Set System Parameters for Volume Shadowing (New Installations Only; Optional)” | ||
| Tune BAP system parameters (Alpha upgrades only). | “Tuning BAP System Parameters (Alpha Upgrade Only)” | ||
| If you set system parameters to enable volume shadowing or removed hardcoded BAP system parameters, run AUTOGEN and reboot. | “Running AUTOGEN to Set System Parameter Changes” | ||
| If you want to form a shadow set for a newly installed system disk, you can do this now or later. If you upgraded a disk in a volume shadowing environment, re-form the shadow set. | “Forming the Shadow Set” | ||
| New installations, some upgrades: Perform the following tasks that generally apply to new installations only but could also apply after an upgrade: | |||
Create proxy files, if required. | |||
Set up the queue manager and start the default batch and print queues. | |||
| Configure a multihead system, if applicable. | “Configuring a Multihead System (Optional)” | ||
Configure DECnet if it was installed. After an upgrade, perform only if DECnet was added during the upgrade. | |||
| Configure TCP/IP Services for OpenVMS if it was installed. After an upgrade, configure TCP/IP Services only if it was added during the upgrade. | “Configuring HP TCP/IP Services for OpenVMS” | ||
If you are using neither DECnet nor TCP/IP Services, install and configure third-party networking software, if necessary. Networking software is required to download patches and for certain layered products. | “Installing and Configuring Third-Party Networking Software” | ||
| Initialize or configure the following optional products, as needed: | |||
| Initialize CDSA if you have installed a new version of CDSA without upgrading the base operating system. | “Initializing CDSA (Optional)” | ||
| Configure Availability Manager. | “Configuring the Availability Manager Base Software (Optional)” | ||
| Configure Kerberos. | “Configuring Kerberos (Optional)” | ||
| Configure SSL for OpenVMS. | “Configuring SSL for OpenVMS” | ||
| Configure WBEM Services for OpenVMS | “Configure WBEM Services for OpenVMS (Optional; I64 only)” | ||
| On Integrity servers that include Instant Capacity (iCAP), configure the iCAP software. | “Configure the Instant Capacity Software (Optional; I64 only)” | ||
| On Integrity servers that include Pay per use (PPU), configure the PPU software. | “Configure the Pay per use Software (Optional; I64 only)” | ||
| Initialize and run the Performance Data Collector base software (TDC_RT). | “Initializing and Running the Performance Data Collector Base Software (Optional)” | ||
| Prepare your OpenVMS system and your PC to run OpenVMS Management Station, and follow procedures in Appendix G “Preparing to Use OpenVMS Management Station”. | “Preparing to Use OpenVMS Management Station (Optional)” | ||
| Install OpenVMS Debugger clients on a PC. | “Installing OpenVMS Debugger Clients on a PC (Optional) ” | ||
| Create or edit a system-specific or clusterwide login welcome message SYS$MANAGER:WELCOME.TXT (optional). | “Creating a System-Specific Login Welcome Message (Optional)” | ||
| Upgrades only: Examine command procedures for which the upgrade may have provided new template files. | “Examining Your Command Procedures (Upgrades Only)” | ||
| Add and remove operating system files (optional). | “Adding and Removing Operating System Files (Optional)” | ||
| Expand the system libraries using LIBDECOMP.COM (optional; Alpha only). | “Expanding the System Libraries (Optional; OpenVMS Alpha Only)” | ||
| Download and apply any relevant OpenVMS or networking patches that are available (optional but recommended). | “Installing Patches (Optional but Recommended)” | ||
| New installations, some upgrades: Install and configure layered products. | “Installing and Configuring Layered Products (New Installations, Some Upgrades)” | ||
Upgrades only (optional): Reinstall optional DECevent software (which is automatically removed during an upgrade) | |||
| New installations, some upgrades: Create print queues. | “Creating Print Queues (New Installations, Some Upgrades)” | ||
| Update SYSTARTUP_VMS.COM to have layered products, print queues, and other products or devices start at boot. | “Updating SYSTARTUP_VMS.COM to Start Layered Products and Print Queues” | ||
| Create user accounts. | “Creating Accounts (New Installations, Some Upgrades)” | ||
| Run the User Environment Test Package (UETP) to test the system (optional). | “Testing the System with UETP (Optional)” | ||
| Back up the system disk and start a systematic routine for backing up the application, data, and user disks. | “Backing Up the Customized System Disk and Initiating Systematic Backups” | ||
| If the system disk was pulled out of the shadow set and all the appropriate postupgrade steps recommended in this chapter thus far were performed on that disk, then re-form the shadow set once again. | “Reforming the Shadow Set as Final Postupgrade Backup” | ||
| Upgrades only: Reboot cluster members, if applicable. | “Rebooting Cluster Members (Upgrades Only)” | ||
| Tune your operating system: After the system has run for at least 24 hours with users or a typical application workload on the system, run AUTOGEN to collect feedback and, if necessary, modify the MODPARAMS.DAT file. | |||