Module 1 - Introduction to HP NonStop Systems
- Characteristics of HP NonStop servers
- Tandem Computers architecture - 1976
- HP NonStop architecture - Today
- NonStop servers — the power of clustering and design goals
- Availability definitions
- Data integrity concepts
- High performance and scalability methods and strategies
- Fault Tolerance
- One operating system with two environments
- Open interfaces — Open System Services (OSS)
- Open cluster application protocols
Module 2 - NonStop Technical Library (NTL)
- NonStop Technical Library (NTL) concepts and home page
- Browsing and viewing NTL
- Using search facilities to find NTL documents and information
- Lab: NTL
Module 3 - NonStop Operating System (OS)
- The NonStop OS — where it loads from
- Basic functions of the NonStop OS and the two alternative interfaces
- NonStop OS process management, states, and scheduling
- Why a message-based operating system?
- System and application processes
- Process pairs
- Message and file systems
- The requester/server model
Module 4 - Guardian Environment
- Guardian environment — authentication of users
- Managing the Guardian user environment
- The Guardian file system
- File security codes — RWEP
- Labs: basic Guardian commands; more TACL commands; using TEDIT,
- printing; fault tolerance; fault tolerant programming; process control;
- TACL programming
Module 5 - The Open System Services (OSS) Environment
- OSS definition
- NonStop facilities and tools based on OSS
- Guardian, OSS, and shared APIs
- OSS file system and types
- Guardian and OSS text files
- POSIX.2 shell and utilities
- Directories and filenames
- Lab: OSS
Module 6 - Requesters and Servers
- The primary goal
- OLTP requirements
- Application modularity basic design principle and advantages
- Pathway and the requester-server model
- Requester-server approach
- Lab: requesters and servers
Module 7 - Pathway Application Environment
- The Pathway solution and components
- NonStop TS/MP components
- Pathway/iTS definition and components
- Terminal Control Program (TCP)
- Non-TCP access to Pathway servers
- RSC client access to Pathway servers
- Distributed Pathway applications
- iTP WebServer definition
Module 8 - Application Services
- Application servers/Transaction Processing (TP) monitors
- Tuxedo and NonStop Tuxedo definitions
- CORBA and NonStop CORBA definitions
- WebLogic Server (WLS) and WLS on the NonStop server
- NonStop Application Sever for Java
- Open Source Java frameworks
- Summary of terminal-oriented and client/server application
- environments
- Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) definition, characteristics, and
- benefits
- SOA and the HP NonStop server
Module 9 - Application Development Environments
- Tools and components
- HP Enterprise Toolkit (ETK) — NonStop edition
- Native and non-native compilers
- NonStop Development Environment for Eclipse (NSDEE)
- NonStop modes of operation
- Eclipse and Eclipse for NonStop definitions and benefits
- Current Eclipse features
- Debuggers available
- Visual Inspect
- Code Coverage tools
Module 10 - Database Management
- Relational database systems
- Database file structures
- Partitioned and distributed files and tables
- Relational databases specifically designed for NonStop servers
- Database terminology
- Enscribe Database Record Manager
- NonStop SQL/MP
- NonStop SQL/MX
- Labs: SQL/MX; SQL/MP; File Utility Program (FUP); Enform Query Language
Module 11 - NonStop Transaction Management Facility (TMF) and
Remote Database Facility (RDF)
- NonStop server core services
- Preventing data integrity problems in OLTP environments
- ACID properties of transactions
- Transaction Management Facility (TMF)
- Volume and file recovery
- Concurrency control
- TMF audited files and audit-trail files
- Remote Database Facility (RDF)
- RDF operational overview
- Summary of TMF and RDF database protection
- Lab: data integrity
Module 12 - NonStop Server Hardware Architectures
- Integrity NonStop servers and Integrity NonStop BladeSystem
- servers
- HP NonStop Value Architecture (NSVA)
- HP NonStop Advanced Architecture (NSAA)
- HP NonStop Multi-core Architecture (NSMA)
- ServerNet system area network
- X and Y fabrics for fault tolerance
- Cluster I/O Modules (CLIMs)
- Mirrored disks
- Power management
Module 13 - NonStop Server System Management
- NonStop server manageability strategy
- Element and enterprise management
- Problem detection - Event Management Service (EMS) and event
- messages
- Problem detection and response - EMS infrastructure and Virtual
- Hometerm Subsystem (VHS)
- System maintenance and service - Open System Management (OSM)
- HP Systems Insight Manager (SIM) and NonStop plugins
- Installing software — NonStop Software Essentials
- Configuring/reconfiguring the system — Subsystem Control Facility
- (SCF)
- NonStop server system management issues
- What is different about managing a NonStop server?
- Availability issues
- Fault-tolerant application software
- Other availability issues
- Tuning goals
- System configuration impact on performance
- Process priorities
- Operations and system management issues — summary
- Labs: measure tool; system control
Module 14 - Security
- Security issues
- Guardian environment
- $CMON
- Comparing security in the OSS and Guardian environments
- Safeguard software
- Safeguard auditing
- Encryption facilities
Module 15 - Networking and Data Communications
- Networking requirements
- Connecting NonStop systems
- The path to remote systems and devices
- Expand networking software
- NonStop ServerNet cluster
- Communicating with specialized input devices
- Connecting to devices and other systems
- IP Cluster I/O Modules (CLIMs)
- ServerNet Wide Area Network (SWAN)
- Summary of NonStop server networking capabilities
Module 16 - Information Sources and Education Planning
- Sources of information on NonStop servers and software
- NonStop Enterprise Division web site
- Education and Training Center
- Curriculum paths
- Connect - International HP Users' Group and regional user groups
- NonStop Enterprise Division field sales and support
- Global NonStop Solution Center (GNSC) - product support
- NonStop support plans
Onsite Delivery Equipment Requirements
- Windows-based workstations providing each student with access to a
- NonStop server
- Student and instructor access to: Internet, basic Guardian utilities, the
- Guardian spooler, TEDIT, TACL, and OSS Pathway, Enscribe, SQL/MX,
- SQL/MP, TMF, Measure, ViewPoint
