HPE Integrity NonStop Operating System Architecture Training in South Africa

• Concepts and Facilities for NonStop Systems (U4147S) and
• HP NonStop Kernel Principles (U4179S) and
• Working knowledge of C/C or pTAL

Who Should Attend?

• System programmers
• Field analysts
• Application designers

• Understand Itanium-based systems
• Know when to use a particular debugger
• Understand ordinary DLLs and programs using DLLs
• Describe how virtual addressing is supported by the addressing schemes of both TNS and TNS/E processes
• Understand the fundamental tools and mechanisms used by the NonStop operating system
• Describe memory management process functions
• Understand the Guardian and OSS file systems and their supporting structures
• Know the elements of the NonStop operating system that constitute the message system
• Support HP software products

Module 1 - NS-series and NB-series Hardware and Software Overview

• NonStop Advanced Architecture (NSAA) hardware
• NonStop Multi-core Architecture (NSMA) hardware
• Modular I/O
• CLIM hardware
• Code generation, address space, code space, and process execution
• Interprocessor and I/O architecture
• Message-based operating system
• Software layers

Module 2 - Debuggers

• NS-series debuggers
• Debugger selection
• eGarth and eInspect
• Visual Inspect (VI) and Inspect

Module 3 - Process Run-Time Architecture

• TNS/E processes
• Building TNS/E programs and libraries
• TNS processes
• Legacy TNS processes
• Interpreted TNS on Itanium
• TNS accelerated on Itanium
• TNS transitions
• TNS calling native procedures
• TNS application migration and debugging

Module 4 - Addressing

• Itanium processor address architecture
• Extended data areas
• TNS/E process layout
• TNS process layout

Module 5 - Interrupts and Exceptions

• Interrupts
• NSAA interrupts
• Synchronization and coordination mechanisms
• Interrupt and auxiliary processes

Module 6 - Operating System Tools and Mechanisms

• Data structures
• Time services
• Process events
• PROCESS_WAIT_ and PROCESS_AWAKE_
• Classic privileged semaphores

Module 7 - Memory Access and Management

• Hardware
• Physical layer
• Logical segments
• Logical map
• Sharing
• Priv considerations
• Page faults

Module 8 - The Message System

• Interprocess communication within the same node
• ServerNet topology and the message system
• MQCs
• Communication across nodes
• Expand
• ServerNet clusters
• QIO

Module 9 - Guardian Process Control

• Guardian process creation
• Process states
• Process synchronization
• Monitor process operation
• Processor load and reload

Module 10 - OSS Process Control

• OSS process creation
• fork() and exec()
• Process termination

Module 11 - Guardian File System

• Functions of the file system
• Control structures
• Open request processing
• Receive depth
• Nowait depth
• Sync depth
• Peek and poke

Module 12 - OSS File System

• File systems
• OSS file system and support
• OSS file organization
• OSS pathname mapping
• OSS open

Module 13 - The I/O Subsystem

• Storage I/O: architecture, operation, completion
• Configuring storage device
• Comparing storage and comm I/O
• QIO
• Outgoing comm I/O
• Incoming comm I/O
• WAN I/O
• Other devices

Onsite Delivery Equipment Requirements

• One Integrity NonStop NS-series or NB-series server with NonStop operating system version H06.03 or later
• One PC compatible workstation per attendee and instructor