HP NonStop NS Using SCF to Determine Your System Configuration, SCF System Naming Conventions

Determining Your System Configuration Using SCF to Determine Your System Configuration

For information on forms available that can help you record your system configuration, refer to the NonStop NSxxxx Planning Guide for your Integrity NonStop NS16000, NS14000, or NS1000 server.

Using SCF to Determine Your System Configuration

SCF is one of the most important tools available to you as a system operator. SCF commands configure and control the objects (lines, controllers, processes, and so on) belonging to each subsystem running on the Integrity NonStop NS-series server. You also use SCF to display information about subsystems and their objects.

SCF accepts commands from a workstation, a disk file, or an application process. It sends display output to a workstation, a file, a process, or a printer. Some SCF commands are available only to some subsystems. An overall SCF reference is the SCF Reference Manual for H-Series RVUs. Subsystem-specific information appears in a separate manual for each subsystem. For a partial list of these manuals, refer to Appendix C, Related Reading.

More details about the functions of SCF appear in Subsystem Control Facility (SCF) on page B-4.

SCF System Naming Conventions

SCF object names usually follow a consistent set of naming conventions defined for each installation. HP preconfigures some of the naming conventions to create the logical device names for many SCF objects.

System planning and configuration staff at your site likely will change or expand on the preconfigured file-naming conventions that HP provides, typically by establishing naming conventions for configuring such objects as storage devices, communication processes, and adapters. These conventions should simplify your monitoring tasks by making process or object functions intuitively obvious to someone looking at the object name. For example, in your environment, tape drives might be named $TAPEn, where n is a sequential number.

The SCF Reference Manual for H-Series RVUs lists naming conventions for SCF objects, as well as HP reserved names that cannot be changed or used for other objects or processes in your environment.

SCF Configuration Files

Your system is delivered with a standard set of configuration files:

•The $SYSTEM.SYSnn.CONFBASE file contains the minimal configuration required to load the system.

•The $SYSTEM.ZSYSCONF.CONFIG file contains a standard system configuration created by HP. This basic configuration includes such objects as disk drives, tape

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