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Using OpenVMS System Management Utilities and Tools
2.1 Understanding OpenVMS System Management Tools
The OpenVMS Management Station consists of two components:
• The client. This is Microsoft Windows based software that you install on a PC
and use to perform management operations.
• The server. This software must be installed on all OpenVMS systems to be
managed. You do not interact directly with the server, the client does that.
Documentation for the OpenVMS Management Station
The Microsoft Windows help files completely describe features, functions,
instructions, and examples of using the OpenVMS Management Station. The
OpenVMS Management Station Overview and Release Notes document provides
an overview of OpenVMS Management Station and describes how to get started
using the software.
Information about installing the OpenVMS Management Station on your Alpha
or VAX computer and your PC is located in the following manuals:
• OpenVMS Alpha Version 7.3 Upgrade and Installation Manual
• OpenVMS VAX Version 7.3 Upgrade and Installation Manual
2.1.1.1 Managing Resources
OpenVMS Management Station allows you to organize the systems you need to
manage in ways that are meaningful to you and your environment, and allows
you to manage user accounts on those systems.
You can easily manage user accounts across multiple OpenVMS systems,
depending on your needs. The systems might be some of the clusters in a
network, all of the systems on one floor of a building, a mix of clusters and
nonclustered nodes, and so forth.
You can use OpenVMS Management Station to manage OpenVMS user accounts
in a convenient, easy manner. For example, when creating an account on multiple
systems, OpenVMS Management Station can add a user authorization file (UAF)
entry, grant rights identifiers, create an OpenVMS directory, set a disk quota, set
up OpenVMS Mail characteristics, and so forth, for each instance of the account.
OpenVMS Management Station manages the following OpenVMS resources:
• The SYSUAF.DAT user authorization file
• The RIGHTSLIST.DAT user rights file
• The network proxy database
• Account login-directory trees
• User account disk quotas
• The OpenVMS Mail VMSMAIL_PROFILE.DATA file
2.1.1.2 Managing Operations
The OpenVMS Management Station supports the following account management
operations:
• Creating user accounts
• Modifying user accounts (any aspect)
• Deleting user accounts
• Renaming user accounts
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