NonStop NS-Series Operations Guide (H06.03+)

Creating Startup and Shutdown Files
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Investigate Product-Specific Techniques
Investigate Product-Specific Techniques
Some products provide commands that reduce the time required to start up or shut
down their services. Familiarize yourself with the products and applications that run on
your system to identify time-saving techniques for speeding startup and shutdown
operations. Refer to the relevant documentation for each product.
For example, the HP NonStop TS/MP product provides the COOL START option and
the SHUTDOWN2 command to shorten startup and shutdown times, respectively.
Using the COOL START option, rather than COLD START, to restart an existing
transaction-processing system is much faster. The SHUTDOWN2 command is faster
and more reliable than the SHUTDOWN command. Both of these techniques are
described in the TS/MP System Management Manual.
How Process Persistence Affects
Configuration and Startup
When the system is started, all processes that are configured to be persistent are
started automatically by the persistence manager ($ZPM) or by the subsystem
manager, which is started by $ZPM.
For example, when the system is started, the WAN subsystem manager automatically
starts all WAN I/O processes (IOPs) that were started before the system was shut
down. However, communications lines and paths must be started manually by the
operator.
To make important system processes start automatically at system load and be
persistent (that is, restart automatically if stopped abnormally), you should create them
as generic processes in the system configuration database. See the Integrity NonStop
NS-Series Hardware Installation Manual.
For more information about persistence and the $ZPM persistence manager, see the
SCF Reference Manual for the Kernel Subsystem.
Tips for Startup Files
HP recommends that you specify “N” for the read access portion of the file security
attribute (RWEP) for your startup files to allow the files to be read by any user on the
network. For example, you might secure these files “NCCC.”
The sequence in which you invoke startup files can be important. Some processes
require other processes to be running before they can be started. Be sure to indicate
the order in which your startup files are to be run.
Because the TCP/IP configurations are not stored in the configuration database, they
are not preserved after system loads. Therefore, TCP/IP stacks must be configured as
well as started each time the system is started. This is only true for conventional
TCP/IP.