IRIS set up
I want to configure Iris (the big Itanium server) the same way as Diana – the Alpha system. Apart from the obvious differences because of architecture, and a minor change in naming the centralized location (to be moved to a shared disk once I get my external storage (anticipated end of May)) it should be the same.
So I copied the startup-environment, completely, adapted SYSTARTUP_VMS.COM to do just the basic stuff, and run the rest on batch. Of course the files have been changed to fit what’s currently available. However, though submitted to the queue, it never started. Found out that SYSUAF and RIGHTSLIST – both authorization files – were the wrong ones: on Diana, these are kept on the shared environment, and the definitions in SYLOGICALS.COM refer to that environment; and that caused problems starting the procedure – and a lot more problems – it’s renamed on IRIS and the drive the account resides on is false – in these SYSUAF…
After I changed all references to that location (renamed on IRIS, but the files should not be used here anyway!) restart did start the batch procedure. But still not everything runs fine: FTP for instance will not start, there is something wrong with access to the login file. Same for SMTP, NTP and BIND…
Removed the services, and the users and identifiers, will probably have to re-install TCPIP – completely…
Anyway: Most files are now available, eventually I could pass then via Diana (since IRIS boots into the cluster, the shared-SCSI disks are accessible via MSCP – even the bootdrive of Diana.
To be continues 🙂