Confirming The Installation Of The Openvms Operating System; Example Of Show System Command To Show System Command On The Openvms Operating System; Example Of The Product Show History Command To Check The Versions Of Patches Already Installed - IBM TotalStorage DS6000 Attachment Manual

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See the HP document, Guidelines for OpenVMS Cluster Configurations, for a
discussion about working with fibre-channel devices and system parameters such
as MSCP_CMD_TMO, MVTIMEOUT, and MPDEV_LCRETRIES.

Confirming the installation of the OpenVMS operating system

This section provides steps to confirm the installation of the OpenVMS operating
system.
Ensure that the storage unit supports attachment to the OpenVMS operating system
level that you are installing. See "Supported operating system levels for
fibre-channel attachment to an HP OpenVMS host" on page 42 for a list of
supported OpenVMS operating system levels.
1. Use the show system command to show the current version of the OpenVMS
Figure 23. Example of show system command to show system command on the OpenVMS
operating system
2. Ensure that you have installed the most current version of patches and
3. Use the product show history command to check the patches that are
Figure 24. Example of the product show history command to check the versions of patches
already installed
operating system that you have installed. Figure 23 shows an example of what
is displayed when you use the show system command.
$ show system
OpenVMS V7.3-2 on node DS20 5-FEB-2004 15:15:16.88 Uptime 1 01:45:09
HP-recommended remedial kits. Some kits are dependent on other kits. You
must install some kits before you install another kit. See the documentation from
HP for more information.
installed on your system. Figure 24 shows an example of what you see when
you use the product show history command.
$ product show history
----------------------------------- ----------- ----------- --------------------
PRODUCT
----------------------------------- ----------- ----------- --------------------
DEC AXPVMS VMS731_LAN V6.0
DEC AXPVMS VMS731_UPDATE V1.0
DEC AXPVMS VMS731_PCSI V1.0
CPQ AXPVMS CDSA V1.0-2
DEC AXPVMS DWMOTIF V1.2-6
DEC AXPVMS OPENVMS V7.3-1
DEC AXPVMS TCPIP V5.3-18
DEC AXPVMS VMS V7.3-1
----------------------------------- ----------- ----------- --------------------
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Chapter 5. Attaching to a Hewlett-Packard AlphaServer OpenVMS host
KIT TYPE OPERATION DATE AND TIME
Patch Install 04-AUG-2004 15:34:30
Patch Install 04-AUG-2004 15:28:37
Patch Install 04-AUG-2004 15:22:10
Full LP Install 04-AUG-2004 13:59:00
Full LP Install 04-AUG-2004 13:59:00
Platform Install 04-AUG-2004 13:59:00
Full LP Install 04-AUG-2004 13:59:00
Oper System Install 04-AUG-2004 13:59:00
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