Open System Services Installation Guide (H06.16+, J06.05+)

5. Run DSM/SCM to install converted product files in the OSS file system. (For instructions, see
the DSM/SCM User’s Guide.)
This step:
• Repopulates part of the OSS filesets from the ZOSSUTL archives described in the A7CINFO
file, preserving file modes
• Updates the DSM/SCM database with OSS file information for future maintenance
NOTE: Do not use COPYOSS to install OSS files that DSM/SCM manages. Doing so
replaces the DSM/SCM-managed files, which can make it difficult to determine whether
OSS files are managed by DSM/SCM. This confusion can cause problems in managing
OSS files with DSM/SCM.
Be careful when using DSM/SCM in a network of systems running both G-series RVUs
and J-series or H-series RVUs; the default for Manage OSS Files is unchecked for G-series
RVUs and checked for J-series and H-series RVUs.
6. Finish configuring the OSS environment as described in “Completing a Preconfigured Basic
OSS Environment” in “Manually Setting Up an OSS Environment” in the Open System Services
Management and Operations Guide. These tasks include:
• Starting an OSS shell
• Customize the general profile (/etc/profile) file
• Configuring and starting network services such as TCP/IP and inetd
• Configuring and starting the cron process
• Securing the fileset mount points (/bin, /etc, /var, /tmp, and /home) to ensure that
they have security permissions consistent with your site’s security policies.
• Updating the whatis database (merge_whatis) from additional directories, if any,
for the OSS shell apropos, man, and whatis commands. The OSSSETUP utility
automatically creates the whatis database from the /usr/share/man directory;
however, you can update the whatis database from other directories.
• Setting up printers
• Configuring OSS users
7. Install OSS files for products that use OSS but do not use the ZOSSUTL subvolume to install
their OSS product files. For example, both HP NonStop Distributed Computing Environment
(DCE) and NonStop SQL/MX use the pax utility to copy a file from a Guardian subvolume
into the OSS file system and then use the copied file to install more files for the product. (For
instructions, see the manuals for those products.)
8. (Optional) Customize your configuration; for example, enable Safeguard auditing of OSS
files. (For instructions, see the Open System Services Management and Operations Guide.)
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