Setting up IRIS
IRIS is the big Itanium 2620 – 2 2-core processors, Hyperthreading enabled so OpenVMS encounters 8 CPU’s; 24Gb memory (the max possible) and 3 143Gb disks.
The node has been added to the cluster:
+-----------------------+---------+
| SYSTEMS | MEMBERS |
+--------+--------------+---------+
| NODE | SOFTWARE | STATUS |
+--------+--------------+---------+
| IRIS | VMS V8.4 | MEMBER |
| DIANA | VMS V8.4 | MEMBER |
+-----------------------+---------+
and all languages (BASIC, C, C++ COBOL, FORTRAN and PACAL) and DECSet have been installed. Welcome.txt set up to show it’s name on login;
Next, I will set up the startup-procedure similar to what I have set up 10 years ago: What can be done in batch will be done in background so the basis system will be available as soon as possible.
When that is done, I will setup services – all of them, so the machine can be used as replacement for Diana. Except for central services like DHCP, DNS and NTP, at least, for now. It means I’ll have to install all web-software – that’s why I needed the compilers – WASD, PHP. MariaDB…and test it. The only thing not yet available is PMAS for Itanium – I’ve asked for it.
Another thing to do is using Process’s Multinet in stead of HP’s TCPIP suite – Multinet is superior (that’s why VSI leased that software as replacement).