This guide presents step-by-step procedures for managing and
maintaining the Advanced Server. It describes how to complete common tasks,
such as managing files and directories, printing, and administering the
network.
Revision/Update Information:
This is a new manual.
Operating System:
OpenVMS Alpha, Version 7.2
Software Version:
Advanced Server V7.2 for OpenVMS
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First Published, January 1999
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Welcome to the Advanced Server for OpenVMS Server Administrator's Guide. For
the purpose of this text, the Advanced Server for OpenVMS software is referred to as
the Advanced Server. The Advanced Server and its associated OpenVMS system
platform provide a powerful, reliable, and open operating environment
that meets the demands of client-server computing.
This Server Administrator's Guide presents step-by-step procedures for managing and
maintaining the Advanced Server. It describes how to complete common
tasks, such as managing files and directories, printing, and
administering the network. Unless otherwise noted, commands used in
procedures and examples are Advanced Server ADMINISTER commands.
Intended Audience
This guide is for the OpenVMS network administrator. As the network
administrator, you must be familiar with the OpenVMS operating system
to support the server, and with other operating systems to support
clients. It is also expected that you have had experience managing an
OpenVMS system and doing network administration, and that you are
familiar with the specific network configuration being managed.
You are assumed to have read the following product manuals:
Advanced Server for OpenVMS Concepts and Planning Guide
Advanced Server for OpenVMS Server Installation and Configuration Guide
Advanced Server for OpenVMS Guide to Managing Advanced Server Licenses
You are assumed to have access to the following documentation:
Advanced Server for OpenVMS Commands Reference Manual
Documentation for any clients or servers running other operating
systems in the domain
This guide addresses use of the Advanced Server for OpenVMS only.
Document Structure
The following table lists the chapters in this guide.
Describes the Configuration Manager tool and how to use it to configure
and tune your server, and describes how to manage server configuration
parameters in the OpenVMS Registry.
Use the following World Wide Web address to order additional
documentation:
http://www.openvms.digital.com:81/
If you need help deciding which documentation best meets your needs,
call 800-DIGITAL (800-344-4825).
Conventions
The following conventions are used in the Advanced Server documentation
set:
Convention
Meaning
Advanced Server
Indicates the file and print server installed from the Advanced Server
for OpenVMS software kit.
Ctrl/
x
While you hold down the Ctrl key, press another key or a pointing
device button.
Italic
Indicates a place holder for information or parameters that you must
provide. For example, if the procedure asks you to type
file-name, you must type the actual name of a file.
Italics also indicate path names, new terms, and the titles of
other documents.
bold
Indicates a server configuration parameter name, a command button name,
or a menu item.
monospace
Indicates the actual commands, words, or characters that you type in a
dialog box or at a command prompt or system output.
UPPERCASE TEXT
Indicates names of OpenVMS and Advanced Server for OpenVMS commands and qualifiers.
You can enter commands and qualifiers in any combination of uppercase
and lowercase letters, unless otherwise noted.
/
A forward slash in command descriptions indicates that a command
qualifier follows.
=
An equal sign (=) in command descriptions indicates you must provide
information.
[ ]
In command format descriptions, indicates optional elements. Multiple
elements are separated by vertical bars (|). You can enter as many as
you want.
{ }
In command format descriptions, indicates you must enter at least one
listed element. The elements are separated by bars (|).
...
A horizontal ellipsis following an entry in a command line indicates
that the entry or a similar entry can be repeated any number of times.
An ellipsis following a file name indicates that additional parameters,
values, or information can be entered.
.
.
.
A vertical ellipsis in an example indicates that not all the data is
shown.
Note
Provides information of special importance.
Caution
Provides information to avoid damaging hardware or software.
Advanced Server software provides a flexible system for managing wide area
networks (WANs) and local area networks (LANs). The Advanced Server
software lets you use Compaq Computer Corporation computers as servers to share
network resources with supported clients and is compatible with Window
NT servers running in the same network.
The Advanced Server is an OpenVMS-based network operating system (NOS)
compatible with Microsoft networking technology.
As a server for computers in a network, the Advanced Server provides file
and print services that enable the efficient sharing of computing
resources among a community of desktop users. It can function as a file
and print server for a small, isolated community of users or as the
foundation of a large network distributed over a wide geographical area.
You can perform Advanced Server management tasks from any client or server
that is running Windows NT server administration tools, and from any
Advanced Server using the Advanced Server ADMINISTER commands. This
document shows you how to manage your servers using Advanced Server
software.
This overview of Advanced Server describes the role of the network
administrator, and the features available with Advanced Server, in the
following sections:
Section 1.5, Network Administration Interfaces, describes the server and client software interfaces
with which you manage your servers, including the Advanced Server
ADMINISTER command line interface.
When you administer any network, you plan, set up, and maintain that
network. For information on planning and design, see the Advanced Server for OpenVMS
Concepts and Planning Guide.
To plan a network, complete the following tasks:
Organize the network into domains
Decide how to configure each server in a domain
Evaluate new applications and peripherals
After planning your network and putting all hardware and connecting
links in place, you install and configure Advanced Server software. You
can then use the instructions in this document to customize and manage
the server.
As part of the installation, described in the Advanced Server for OpenVMS
Server Installation and Configuration Guide, you specify parameters to establish your network. After
installation, you can modify server configuration parameters in the
OpenVMS Registry. For more information, see Section 7.2, Managing Server Configuration Parameters.
The Advanced Server Configuration Manager allows you to modify server
parameter values, such as client capacity, OpenVMS process priority,
and network transports. For more information, see Section 7.1, Using the Configuration Manager.
Initial server configuration is performed when you install and
configure the server software. The initial configuration command
procedure, PWRK$CONFIG.COM, allows you to invoke the Configuration
Manager so you can specify server parameters during initial
configuration. The initial configuration procedure is described in the
Advanced Server for OpenVMS Server Installation and Configuration Guide. After you complete the initial installation
and configuration, you can run the Configuration Manager to modify
certain server configuration parameters, and you can modify the server
configuration parameters in the OpenVMS Registry.
You may need to perform certain infrequently used procedures to resolve
network problems caused by unexpected conditions; for example, faulty
wiring, faulty hardware, or overloaded servers or printers.
Advanced Server provides commands and diagnostic tools to help you isolate
and fix such problems.
An Advanced Server network consists of computers, both servers and
clients. Servers control resources that client systems on the network
can use. Clients are typically PC-based systems that need access to
resources on the server. Workstations and other computers running
networking software that can access network resources can be clients.
Supported client operating systems include Windows 3.11, Windows 95,
Windows 98, Windows NT, Windows for Workgroups, and MS-DOS.
Compaq Advanced Server client software is supported but not required.
To help you manage a large and diverse network, Advanced Server software
lets you divide the network into domains, or administrative groups of
servers and clients. With domains, control of user access to the
network and its resources is centralized and simplified, and you can
establish exactly which servers a specific user can access.
A domain is a collection of computers that share a common user accounts
database and security policy. You create a domain when you install and
configure a primary domain controller. To enable users to access
resources in domains where they have no user accounts, you can
establish trust relationships between domains. This provides
flexibility when configuring large networks with multiple domains. For
more information about planning domains, see the Advanced Server for OpenVMS
Concepts and Planning Guide. For more information on managing domains, see
Chapter 2, Managing Domains and Servers.
The Advanced Server Only security model provides access based on
Advanced Server user account security policies and user access rights on
shared resources. The Advanced Server and OpenVMS security model
provides access based on both Advanced Server and OpenVMS security
policies. This is useful for network users who also require OpenVMS
security enforcement.
A user who needs access to resources shared on a server must have
access to one of the following:
An Advanced Server user account established on that server. A user
account contains all the information that the Advanced Server needs to
define a user, including the user name, a description, and a password.
A server that provides Guest access to resources.
A server that provides access based on domain trust relationships.
The user account, with its associated password, identifies the user to
the Advanced Server software. You can enable logon restrictions for each
user account; for example, limiting the hours during which the user can
access server resources.
By default, a shared resource is available to all users. You can assign
access permissions to users for resources, specifying the type of
access each user can have to a resource. You can assign a different set
of permissions for each user and for each shared resource. If you use
the Advanced Server Only security model, access permissions grant
access to OpenVMS files and directories on the server, regardless of
the OpenVMS file protections. For more information on the interaction
of these two access permissions, see Section 4.1.2,Advanced Server Security Models.
If a trust relationship has been established between the two domains,
you can grant access to resources for users from other domains. To
grant permissions to a user from another domain, include the domain
name when you specify the user name.
To simplify administration of access permissions, you define groups of
users. The members of a group are users and other groups. Groups
provide an easy way to grant common capabilities to several users;
group permissions are provided to all its members.
A group can be either local or global.
A global group is a collection of user accounts allowed to access
resources in one domain. It can also be assigned permissions to use
resources in a trusting domain. A global group:
Can be used to assign permissions and rights within the domain
Cannot contain other groups as members
Cannot contain users from another domain
Cannot contain groups from another domain
A local group can include users and global groups from its own domain
and from trusted domains. Thus, it provides access to resources in its
domain to users in its domain and in trusted domains.
If a trust relationship has been established between the two domains,
you can grant access to resources for groups from other domains. To
grant permissions to the members of a group from another domain,
include the domain name when you specify the group name.
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