HP OpenVMS 8.x Setting OpenVMS Cluster Membership Information, Updating Time Zone Information

NOTE: If your newly upgraded system disk is a Fibre Channel device, HP recommends that you add it as a boot option in the EFI boot menu. If you do not allow the upgrade procedure to add the device to the boot menu, you can add it by using the OpenVMS I64 Boot Manager utility (SYS$MANAGER:BOOT_OPTIONS.COM) after the upgrade completes. (To add Fibre Channel devices to the EFI boot menu, you must use this utility instead of EFI.)

HP recommends using the OpenVMS I64 Boot Manager utility to add shadowed system disks in a multiple-member shadow set to the EFI boot device list and dump device list. Be sure to add all members to both lists.

For information about the OpenVMS I64 Boot Manager utility, see Section A.5.2 (page 165). For more information about configuring and booting Fibre Channel devices, see Appendix D (page 241).

6.3.9 Warning About Removal of the DECRAM Command

When upgrading from versions of OpenVMS prior to 8.3, the procedure displays a message similar to the following that warns you that the DCL command DECRAM is being removed to prevent conflict with the DECRYPT command:

Beginning with OpenVMS V8.3, the DCL commands ENCRYPT and DECRYPT are provided as part of OpenVMS.

Because "DECRYPT" conflicts with the existing command "DECRAM", this upgrade will remove the DECRAM command.

If you use the command DECRAM interactively or in command procedures, please see the release notes for more information.

The DECRYPT command (introduced with OpenVMS Version 8.3) overwrites the default definition of DECR, which you might have been using to run DECram. You should update any command procedures that use the DECRAM command so that they use the foreign command style of DCL to run DECram:

$ DECRAM == "$MDMANAGER"

This change affects only the use of the DCL command; all other aspects of the DECram product remain the same.

6.3.10 Setting OpenVMS Cluster Membership Information

The procedure now asks whether your system will be part of an OpenVMS Cluster. For example:

Will this system be a member of an OpenVMS Cluster? (Yes/No)

Unlike an installation, answering YES to this question does not cause the

SYS$MANAGER:CLUSTER_CONFIG.COM procedure to run automatically when your upgraded system is first booted. However, correct cluster membership information is required by the upgrade procedure. Note that you can run run this procedure manually to configure or reconfigure your system as a member of an OpenVMS Cluster. For more information about configuring a member of an OpenVMS Cluster, see Guidelines for OpenVMS Cluster Configurations.

6.3.11 Updating Time Zone Information

For local time zone support to work correctly, the time zone that accurately describes the location you want to be considered as your default time zone must be set. In addition, your system must be configured correctly to use a valid OpenVMS time differential factor (TDF).

If the installation procedure determines that time zone information is incomplete, it prompts you to set the correct default time zone and TDF for your system. For information about setting the time zone information, see Section 3.3.3 (page 53).

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