Availability Guide for Change Management

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About This Manual
The Availability Guide for Change Management explains how to maximize system and
application availability while successfully implementing changes to your NonStop
system. This manual will:
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Describe and recommend a process for managing change in the Tandem
environment
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Identify typical changes and their causes and show you how to implement these
changes in the Tandem environment
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Describe system software, hardware, application subsystem, and communications
subsystem changes that you can perform without shutting down your NonStop
system
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Describe ways you can reduce the time needed to make changes that require your
NonStop system to be shut down
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Identify the tools provided by Tandem that enable you to make changes to your
NonStop system while it is still running
Who Should Read This Manual?
The intended audience for this manual is anyone responsible for planning and
supporting the management of NonStop systems. The following table identifies some
typical readers and the kind of information they may look for in this manual.
This manual assumes that the reader has worked with NonStop systems before and is
familiar with operations management and the system generation process.
These kind of readers... Look for this kind of information...
Operations managers Types of products offered by Tandem for change management
How the various products “fit together”
Configuration planners,
support planners,
and installers
System and application startup and shutdown procedures
System installation planning
Change control process management
New hardware and software implementation planning
New operating system release installation planning
Hardware and software evaluation and selection
Configuration changes that can be performed online