Masters Education Program
PARSEC’s Masters Education Program (MEP) isn't your typical online technical seminar.
What if each month you could be a part of a seminar that is geared towards creating best practices for legacy and state-of-art systems with topics such as OpenVMS Crash-Dump Analysis or IP Filtering on UNIX? Would it impress your boss if you learned new methods to ensure current relevance and utility for your company? Would it elevate your job performance, or help you solve a vexing problem? If so, save your seat now in PARSEC's next MEP!
Every month you will learn information inspired by actual case studies that you can apply on-the-spot. We pack technical and practical material into a comfortable 2 hour online session that tops off with ample time for Q&A and valued feedback. Bonus! You get exclusive access to download our extensive documentation at the time of each seminar. Here's a sample list of some of our past seminars:
- Road Trip! VMS Bootcamp 2016 Conference Report
- Bare-Metal System Recovery
- Cleaning Out the Cruft on OpenVMS
- Systemd and Other Major Changes in Redhat Linux 7
- Monitoring OpenVMS with Open-Source SNMP Tools
- OpenVMS Performance Tools
- IP Filtering on Unix
As a perk of being a much appreciated PARSEC support customer, each session is free. If your company is not yet benefiting from PARSEC’s support, you can join any MEP for a modest cost per person. Furthermore, if you sign up for a telephone support contract with us, within 30 days of attending the MEP, we will credit the seminar cost to your support invoice. For as long as you’re a support customer, you will not only enjoy the peace of mind in knowing you’re support needs are covered, but future seminars will be free as well.
OpenVMS Process States
The DCL command SHOW SYSTEM displays the current state of each process. Do you know what each of those states mean? What causes each one? What causes a process to go into RWAST?
This presentation covers the different process states, what they mean, and some extra insights into what it "really" means to you.
- Overview
- Introduction
- Scheduling
- States Related to CUP Usage
- Voluntary Wait States
- Involuntary Wait States
- Undeclared Wait States
This training session is scheduled - 1:00pm MDT. We link to www.worldtimeserver.com to convert to your local time. Note that this is planned as a 2 hour presentation to provide sufficient time to cover all of the topics. To register or to ask any questions, please contact us via e-mail to experts@parsec.com or fill out the inquiry page.
System Stability Hints for Unix
Here are some hints for the system administration team. Some of these are hard-won lessons that have left scars as reminders that a particular course of action (or missed opportunity) resulted in substantial pain.
Captain Obvious has weighed in on many of these over time, especially when making use of the "retrospectoscope".
Most of these suggestions will apply to any Unix or Linux variant. Small changes might be necessary to adjust for vendor specific options to a command or for commands that might be similar in spirit but have differing names as well as options.
Some of these hints will even be applicable to systems that aren't running a Unix-like operating system.
- Setting up the administrator's interactive environment
- rarely login directly to the administrative account
- Keep your administrative environments consistent
- Differentiate your administrative environments in noticeable ways
- avoid customizations such as locally defined aliases
- avoid prepending directories to the vendor supplied PATH
- stick to the "principle of least surprise"
- Keep time synchronized amongst your systems (NTP, Chrony)
- accept the kindness of strangers
- develop an internal pool of peers
- System logs
- Ensure that system logs are being written
- Examine system logs regularly
- Use a central log server
- age off older log files
- Backups
- check the status of your backups
- understand the different types of files being backed up
- normal files
- database files
- regularly perform test restores to ensure your backups are robust
- Lights out management
- ensure your LOM devices are configured (fewer datacenter trips)
- add appropriate users locally
- configure logging and time syncing
- take regular backups if the facility exists
This training session is scheduled - 1:00pm MDT. We link to www.worldtimeserver.com to convert to your local time. Note that this is planned as a 2 hour presentation to provide sufficient time to cover all of the topics. To register or to ask any questions, please contact us via e-mail to experts@parsec.com or fill out the inquiry page.
Worry-Free Delivery
PARSEC Group uses Zoom to deliver our e-Learning to our customers. Zoom provides several options for connecting to the class.
View system requirements here.
Audio is provided via Voice over IP (VoIP) and requires speakers, or a USB headset.
