About This Guide; What's In This Guide - HP Guardian User Manual

About This Guide

This guide provides introductory information and task-oriented instructions for using the
Compaq Tandem Advanced Command Language (TACL) and various Guardian
environment utilities. The utilities and procedures described in this guide include many
of the more common operations tasks that users will need to perform on a system
running the Compaq NonStop™ Kernel operating system.

What's in This Guide?

Section
Section 1, Introduction to Guardian
System Operations
Part I. Using the Compaq Tandem Advanced Command Language (TACL)
Section 2, Getting Started With TACL
Section 3, Managing Files With
TACL
Section 4, Starting and Controlling
Processes With TACL
Section 5, Defining Function Keys
and Writing Macros
Section 6, Creating and Using
DEFINEs
Part II. Managing Files Using the File Utility Program (FUP)
Section 7, Using FUP for Basic File
Management
Section 8, Using FUP for Advanced
File Management
Part III. Managing Disk and Tape Processes
Section 9, Performing Routine Disk
Operations
Section 10, Using Labeled Tapes
Section 11, Backing Up and Restoring
Disk Information
Describes...
The concept of performing operations tasks on a
NonStop™ Kernel system in the Guardian
environment, and provides a checklist of routine
tasks.
The TACL program as a command interpreter and
describes how to access the NonStop™ Kernel
system, including logging on and off and entering
TACL commands. It also introduces Safeguard, a
security program, and describes how to log on to a
terminal controlled by Safeguard and how to change
a password.
Using the TACL program to manage disk files.
Using the TACL program to manage processes that
you start.
How to define function keys and write simple TACL
macros.
Using DEFINEs, which are sets of attributes and
values, to pass information to processes you start.
FUP, and some of its basic features (renaming,
duplicating, and deleting files).
Using FUP to create and manage disk files.
How to perform operations relating to disks, such as
checking the status of disks, and bringing up and
taking down disks.
Using labeled and unlabeled tapes for systems that
have labeled-tape processing.
Using Backup and Restore to copy files between
disk and tape.
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