Open System Services (OSS) Advanced Commands and Utilities for NonStop Training in New Zealand

• OSS NonStop Server Fundamentals course (U5515S) or Concepts & Facilities course (U4147S) or equivalent experience with NonStop servers

• OSS Basic Commands/Utilities (U5516S) or working knowledge of basic UNIX commands & utilities

Module 1: Introduction to Open System Services (OSS)

• What is an open system?

• OSS and Guardian comparisons

• OSS versus 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 exercise: 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 exercise: 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

• Lab exercises:

– 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 exercise: command scripting

Onsite-Delivery Equipment Requirements

• Access to a NonStop server with OSS installed

• OSS configured with sufficient logon IDs for students

• Individual PCs (Windows® 95 or later) with network access and a TELNET type emulator