DECnet for OpenVMS Networking Manual

Summary

This document is the DECnet for OpenVMS Networking Manual, published by Digital Equipment Corporation in May 1993. It serves as a comprehensive guide for system managers and users on managing, configuring, testing, and utilizing DECnet for OpenVMS.

The manual is organized into four major parts:

• Part I (Introduction): Provides an overview of DECnet networking concepts, including nodes, logical links, routing (including area routing), and the software components that make up the network. It explains the relationship between users, the operating system, and the network.
• Part II (Network System Management): Details how to manage and monitor a DECnet network, including building and maintaining the configuration database using the Network Control Program (NCP). It covers node commands, circuit and line management, and network access control (including security and proxy logins).
• Part III (Configuring, Installing, and Testing): Provides procedures for configuring a network, including the use of NETCONFIG.COM, installing license keys, and performing network tests such as loopback testing to ensure proper operation.
• Part IV (Network User Operations): Describes techniques for network user tasks, such as accessing files on remote nodes and performing task-to-task communication (both transparently and nontransparently using system services like $QIO).

Additionally, the manual includes a chapter on performing file operations in a multivendor network environment, detailing restrictions and differences in file system design when communicating between OpenVMS and other systems like IAS, RSTS/E, RSX, RT-11, TOPS-10/20, MS-DOS, ULTRIX, and IBM systems. The document concludes with a glossary of network terms and an index.