HP Advanced Server V7.3B for OpenVMS and HP PATHWORKS V6.1 for OpenVMS (Advanced Server)

HP Advanced Server V7.3B for OpenVMS

The Advanced Server for OpenVMS is installed using the OpenVMS POLYCENTER Software

Installation utility. The Advanced Server for OpenVMS uses the OpenVMS Registry to store

server parameters.

Integrating with External Authentication

External authentication is an optional feature that allows users to log in to an OpenVMS system

using their Advanced Server (domain security) user name and password. This feature is

useful to OpenVMS system managers who want to provide users with a single user name and

password combination for both OpenVMS login and Advanced Server network logon.

If external authentication is being used in an OpenVMS Cluster, all cluster members should be

conﬁgured to process OpenVMS logon requests for network users. You can set up external

authentication support on nodes that do not run HP OpenVMS ﬁle servers. In mixed-architecture

OpenVMS Clusters with the Advanced Server for OpenVMS running on the Alpha members,

the VAX members can still use external authentication. For details about setting up external

authentication in OpenVMS Clusters, refer to the HP Advanced Server for OpenVMS Server

Installation and Conﬁguration Guide.

For more information about external authentication for OpenVMS, refer to the Software Product

Description for OpenVMS Alpha and VAX (SPD 25.01.xx).

Integrating with OpenVMS Security

The Advanced Server provides an extension to the Windows NT security model by supporting

OpenVMS security enforcement as an optional enhancement.

Integrating with OpenVMS Registry

Advanced Server provides network users with access to the OpenVMS Registry. Advanced

Server also stores its own conﬁguration data in the OpenVMS Registry. The Advanced Server

provides the PWRK$REGUTL utility for managing server conﬁguration parameters in the

OpenVMS Registry. The server parameters in the OpenVMS Registry can also be viewed and

managed from a Windows NT based registry editor.

Alerter Service

The Advanced Server includes an Alerter Service that sends automatic alert messages to clients

and users as speciﬁed in the Advanced Server AlertNames parameter setting in the OpenVMS

Registry.

Event Log Service

Event logs provide valuable information about server activities. The administrator can select

from several event types and can select, for each, whether successful or unsuccessful attempts

at speciﬁc operations are to generate event messages. Security event messages are generated

based on the audit policy speciﬁed for the Advanced Server and for ﬁles and directories.

Replicator Service

Windows NT Servers provide user data replication across domain controllers using the Replicator

service. The Replicator service is not provided by Advanced Servers. Therefore, automatic

replication of user ﬁles and directories on Advanced Servers is not supported.