Introduction to NonStop Operations Management

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manage change. It also lists the products Tandem offers to help with change and
configuration management tasks.
Section 8, “Performance Management”
This section defines performance management and provides guidelines for managing
system and network performance to help you ensure that you get the best return from
your NonStop systems and that the systems meet your business needs. This section also
provides guidelines for carrying out the performance management functions of
application sizing, capacity planning, and performance analysis and tuning. In addition,
this section lists the products Tandem offers to help with performance management
tasks.
Section 9, “Security Management”
A security policy helps a company ensure that its systems, software, data, and personnel
are well protected. This section provides guidelines and considerations to help you
participate in security policy planning and enforcement. This section also describes
system protection tools and methods, and the types of tasks required to maintain a
secure system.
Section 10, “Contingency Planning”
Disasters can occur anytime and anywhere. In companies where day-to-day business
activity relies on a computer system, a sound recovery plan is imperative. This section
will help you take preventive measures, and, if necessary, recover from a disaster as
quickly as possible with minimal damage and at minimal cost.
Section 11, “Application Management”
Typically, the operations staff must run and manage applications on production systems.
This section provides information on running applications on Tandem NonStop systems.
Section 12, “Automating and Centralizing Operations”
Automating and consolidating operations can help you better manage operations. This
section describes some of the tasks that can be automated and centralized. It also
provides guidelines for automating and centralizing tasks, and lists the products Tandem
offers to help automate and consolidate operations.
Section 13, “Operations Management and Continuous Improvement”
The processes and procedures of an operations organization should never remain static.
Because change occurs all the time, it is vital that you continually improve the processes
of your operations environment to adapt to change. This section outlines a step-by-step
approach to help you improve your operations processes.
Section 14, “Operations Management Tools”
This section lists and describes the Tandem operations tools that help your staff perform
operations management tasks.