HP OpenVMS 8.x manual Creating Network Proxy Authorization Files

For instructions on customizing the system, review the following documentation:

•The release notes, for notes and restrictions that might be relevant to your customization plans

•The HP OpenVMS System Manager's Manual, for instructions on customizing and using your system

Note that other customization tasks are described later in this chapter.

7.7.1 Creating Network Proxy Authorization Files

After a new installation of OpenVMS that includes DECnet, or after an upgrade in which you have added DECnet, create your network proxy authorization files. These files include security authorization information for users using network proxy accounts. If you do not create these network authorization files before starting up your system, you might see messages such as the following during startup:

Message from user SYSTEM on HOMER

%SECSRV-E-NOPROXYDB, cannot find proxy database file NET$PROXY.DAT %RMS-E-FNF, file not found

The NET$PROXY.DAT file is the primary network proxy authorization file. The other network authorization file to be created is NETPROXY.DAT. To create the network proxy authorization files, enter the following commands:

$ SET DEFAULT SYS$COMMON:[SYSEXE] $ MC AUTHORIZE CREATE/PROXY

$ SET DEFAULT SYS$LOGIN

NOTE: Be sure you create the network proxy authorization files before starting the queue manager (as described in Section 7.7.2 (page 120)).

If you see messages similar to the following when you create the proxy files, you can ignore them:

%UAF-W-NETCHANERR, error assigning a channel to NET:

-SYSTEM-W-NOSUCHDEV, no such device available

For more information about network proxy accounts and files, see the HP OpenVMS System Manager's Manual, Volume 1: Essentials. For more information about the Authorize utility, see the HP OpenVMS System Management Utilities Reference Manual: A-L.

7.7.2 Setting Up the Queue Manager and Default Queues

The initial installation of OpenVMS does not create the queue manager or any queues. HP recommends that you create the queue manager and your default batch and print queues now. When you install layered products (as described in Section 7.14 (page 141)), some of these products expect such queues to be present or try to create queues themselves.

NOTE: Normally, you create a queue manager only once. The system stores the START QUEUE command in the queue database to enable the queue manager to start automatically whenever the system reboots. If the queue manager has been started before on your system, do not specify this START QUEUE command again; the /NEW_VERSION qualifier causes your system to overwrite your current queue database files.

To configure shared files on multiple system disks or off the system disk, edit the

SYS$MANAGER:SYLOGICALS.COM file as described in HP OpenVMS System Manager's Manual, Volume 1: Essentials.

To set up the queue manager and a batch queue for new installations, enter the following commands at the DCL prompt. As already noted, do not specify the recommended START QUEUE command (with the /NEW_VERSION qualifier). The /NEW_VERSION qualifier causes

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