System management – Compaq AAR-88LB-TE User Manual

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System Management

A number of changes that affect system management have been introduced with
RTR Version 3. The following sections describe these changes.

5.1 OpenVMS Quotas

RTR Version 2 used OpenVMS quota values specified on the RTR START
command or calculated defaults. Because RTR Version 3 uses dynamic allocation
(with the exception of the number of partitions that is statically defined), RTR
does not calculate the required quotas, but depends on the system manager to
configure quotas adequately. The value of maximum partitions is now set at 500.
(See the RTR Release Notes for further information on partitions.)

For example, with RTR Version 2 you were required to explicitly specify the
number of links or the number of facilities if defaults were too low. You no longer
need to specify each RTR parameter value manually. Additionally, because RTR
Version 3 uses mailboxes, you use the appropriate OpenVMS quotas to establish
sufficient resources to support RTR Version 3 interprocess communication.

In RTR Version 3, all these parameters are governed by OpenVMS quotas. To
establish these for RTR Version 3, DIGITAL recommends that you record the
actual quotas used by RTR Version 2 on each node and add 50 percent to these
values for RTR Version 3. See Table 2–1 for some specifics.

5.2 Startup

There is a new RTR$STARTUP.COM file in SYS$STARTUP. It contains several

changes including specifying RTR file locations, and choice of transport (protocol).

5.3 Creating Facilities

You create facilities the same way in RTR Version 3 as in RTR Version 2

5.3.1 Naming Nodes

With the addition of TCP/IP and DECnet-Plus (DECnet/OSI) to RTR Version 3,
you can now use longnames for node names.

5.3.2 Modifying Facility Configurations

To modify facilities, you use the same procedures in RTR Version 3 as in RTR
Version 2. One facility command has been changed:

SET FACILITY/BROADCAST=MINIMUM=

n

has been changed to:

SET FACILITY/BROADCAST_MINIMUM_RATE=

n

System Management 5–1

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