NET/MASTER Management Services (MS) System Management Guide

3 Configuring NonStop
NET/MASTER MS
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After familiarizing yourself with the default configuration of NonStop NET/MASTER
Management Services (MS), you can customize its configuration to suit the needs of
your organization. This section provides instructions for creating a customized
configuration. Creating a customized configuration involves creating and maintaining
three files:
The CONFIG file
The INIT NCL procedure
The READY NCL procedure
This section discusses each of these files. Following the discussion of the CONFIG file,
the following topics are discussed:
Specifying system file and subvolume locations
Support for remote operations
Disabling use of multiple Guardian user IDs
Moving the DSNM subvolume
This section does not describe every aspect that you can configure; the range of
configurable attributes is too vast for a single section. This section focuses on the
aspects that are configurable only during the startup phase. Many aspects of NonStop
NET/MASTER MS are configured by setting system parameters. Using the
SYSPARMS command or the Display/Update SYSPARMS Settings facility, you can
reconfigure many system attributes dynamically. These other attributes are described
throughout the remainder of this manual.
Note See Section 11, “Configuring the Processing Environment,” for a detailed discussion of configuring
processes and their execution attributes.
The CONFIG File The CONFIG file is an edit file containing PARAM commands that set the system
environment in which NonStop NET/MASTER MS runs. Commands in the CONFIG
file override the default startup configuration, about which you read in Section 2,
“Starting NonStop NET/MASTER MS.”
Note The term “CONFIG file” refers to an edit file that contains PARAM commands, which are read when you
run the NCP program. You can give the file any valid file name that does not conflict with an existing file
read by either NonStop NET/MASTER MS or DSNM. For convenience, this manual uses the generic
term “CONFIG file.”
NonStop NET/MASTER MS uses information in the CONFIG file to set attributes during the startup
phase. You can dynamically reconfigure some values set in the CONFIG file after NonStop
NET/MASTER MS startup.