HP NAS Packages for OpenVMS VAX and Alpha Systems
Installation Guide

Preface

This guide describes how to install each of the HP NAS^tm Packages Version 8.3B for OpenVMS^tm VAX^tmSystems running OpenVMS VAX Version 7.3 and for OpenVMS Alpha Systems running OpenVMS Alpha Version 7.3-2

NAS Client 150
NAS Base Server 200
NAS Client 250
NAS Server 300
NAS Production Server 400

Intended Audience

This product is customer-installable by users already familiar with the VMSINSTAL procedure and POLYCENTER[TM] Software Installation Utility (PCSI).

HP offers comprehensive services, including on-site software installation, for customers who need additional services. OpenVMS recommends that you get installation services if you are unfamiliar with the VMSINSTAL procedure or PCSI Utility.

Structure of this Guide

This guide is organized as follows:

Chapter 1 describes the NAS packages and tells you how to access and print the documentation.
Chapter 2 describes the operating system and hardware required for installing the NAS packages, license procedures, installation of the NAS base kit and modifying system parameters for the NAS components.
Chapter 3 describes installing the NAS packages components, including pre- and postinstallation procedures.
Chapter 4 describes procedures for installing higher NAS packages versions or levels and installing a lower-level NAS Packages license.
Appendix A describes prerequisites, including disk space, installation time, and system parameters for the NAS packages components.
Appendix B lists the system management books that appear on the component bookshelves provided by the NAS packages.
Appendix C lists former NAS packages components that have been removed or retired.
Appendix D provides an Operating System compatibiliy matrix for NAS component software products.

Related Manuals

OpenVMS recommends that you print and read the component installation guides before installing the NAS packages. You may print this electronic documentation as reasonably necessary to exercise your license to use the NAS packages. See Section 1.3.1 for the location of the component installation guides.

The following manuals from the OpenVMS documentation set provide additional information about installing NAS packages:

OpenVMS License Management Utility Manual
OpenVMS System Manager's Manual: Essentials
OpenVMS System Management Utilities Reference Manual: A-L
A Comparison of System Management on OpenVMS Alpha and OpenVMS VAX
POLYCENTER Software Installation Utility User's Guide

Conventions

The following conventions are used in this guide:

NAS	Means Network Application Support.
UPPERCASE TEXT	Uppercase letters indicate the name of a command, a file, a parameter, a procedure, or utility.
monospace font	This typeface indicates a command, option, or path name, and is also used in examples of program code.
bold	Bold indicates user input in code examples.
$	The dollar sign is used to indicate the DCL prompt. This prompt may be different on your system.
50 000 000	Spaces are used to punctuate whole decimal numbers containing five or more digits.
. . .	Vertical ellipsis in an example means information not directly related to the example has been omitted.
italics	Italics with initial capitals indicates the title of a book. For example, the The Middleware Source Book. Italics for a lowercase text string indicates emphasis of a term. For example, the first entry.

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