[Info-vax] Undo Autogen on VMS 7.3

[Rob Jarratt]

"Jan-Erik Soderholm" <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com> wrote in message 
news:ianft6$j5s$1 at news.albasani.net...
> On 2010-11-01 23:35, Rob Jarratt wrote:
>>
>>
>> "Jan-Erik Soderholm" <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com> wrote in message
>> news:ianepk$hfi$1 at news.albasani.net...
>>> On 2010-11-01 23:21, Rob Jarratt wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> "Jan-Erik Soderholm" <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com> wrote in message
>>>> news:iane5h$ggt$1 at news.albasani.net...
>>>>> On 2010-11-01 23:00, Rob Jarratt wrote:
>>>>>> I have an old Alpha 433au to which I just added some extra memory. So
>>>>>> I did
>>>>>> an Autogen, but it looks like there were some problems with the
>>>>>> parameters
>>>>>> as there were conflicting SCSNODE values etc. I pressed ahead, but 
>>>>>> would
>>>>>> now like to go back to the previous configuration. Is this possible?
>>>>>> If so,
>>>>>> how do I do it? Note that I have not purged any files in sys$system, 
>>>>>> so I
>>>>>> am wondering if it is just a matter of deleting the most recent
>>>>>> SETPARAMS.DAT and rebooting?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Rob
>>>>>
>>>>> Or simply fix the problems and rerun AUTOGEN.
>>>>> What actual problems are you seeing ?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> All my licenses seem to have expired, even though they are still valid 
>>>> and
>>>> within the expiry date.
>>>>
>>>> Regards
>>>>
>>>> Rob
>>>
>>> What "licences" ? "Seem" to have expired ?
>>> Show output of the rellevant commands or don't mention it at all.
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> Just realised the problem is a different one to the one I thought. I was
>> jumping to some conclusions. It looks like the actual problem (or at 
>> least
>> one of the problems) is that DECnet won't start because of this error:
>>
>> DECnet address of local node must match VMScluster system ID.
>>
>> As I am not especially expert on clustering I would rather go back to 
>> where
>> I was before, even though this looks like an excellent learning 
>> opportunity
>> :-) But I would prefer to save that for another day if there is a way to
>> rollback.
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Rob
>
> OK, SCSNODE and SCSSYSTEMID are critical for same parts of VMS.
>
> SCSSYSTEMID for e.g. DECnet and SCSNODE for already configured
> queues (The /ON=xxx must match SCSNODE, if not the queue does
> not start).
>
> Was this a clustered system at all ?
>
> Note that the error message mentiones "VMScluster" since some
> parts of it uses the the SCSNODE/SCSSYSTEMID system parameters,
> but this system does not have to be part of a cluster as such.
>
> Anyway, you can fix this by simply entering the correct
> SCSNODE and SCSSYSTEMID in the MODAPRAMS.DAT file and
> rerun AUTOGEN.
>


Thanks. MODPARAMS.DAT had multiple entries for SCSSYSTEMID with different 
values, most were not the value I wanted. They seemed to have been derived 
from some other configuration command procedures, here is an example:

!****************************************************************************
! This section contains System Parameters found in
! SYS$SYSDEVICE:[SYS0.SYSEXE]ALPHAVMSSYS.PAR
! with values that must be preserved when AUTOGEN is run.
!

and also

!****************************************************************************
! This section contains any parameters found in
! SYS$SYSDEVICE:[SYS0.SYSEXE]MODPARAMS.DAT
!
!vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv
!
! SYS$SYSDEVICE:[SYS0.SYSEXE]MODPARAMS.DAT
! Created during installation of OpenVMS AXP V7.2 30-AUG-2001 14:32:14.33
!

I changed all the entries to be consistent and in agreement with DECnet and 
DECnet was able to start.

Yes, I think the system was clustered at some point before I got it (this is 
a hobbyist system now).

Regards

Rob