[Info-vax] Moving UAF records from Cluster to Cluster

Paul Sture paul.nospam at sture.ch
Wed Jul 27 08:39:44 EDT 2011


In article <alpine.LFD.2.00.1107261436180.9958 at libra.gmcl.internal>,
 Rob Brown <mylastname at gmcl.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 26 Jul 2011 at 15:14 -0400, Richard B. Gilbert wrote:
> 
> > On 7/26/2011 2:55 PM, Phillip Helbig---undress to reply wrote:
> >> In article<j0mndq$f0s$1 at dont-email.me>, Thomas Wirt 
> >> <twnews at kittles.com> writes:
> >> 
> >>> I am migrating from a VMS Alpha cluster to a new VMS IA64 cluster. 
> >>> I would like to be able to move individual accounts/records from 
> >>> one cluster to the other. Is there a tool that would allow me to 
> >>> move or export/import a user from one UAF to another without 
> >>> reentering the data by hand or writing a script to take authorize 
> >>> output and change it into an input command?
> 
> See Appendix B(?) _Building Common Files_ in the _OpenVMS Cluster 
> Systems_ manual.  (True in my V7.1 manual set.  YMMV)
> 
> >> Why not just copy SYSUAF.DAT, possibly deleting any users you no 
> >> longer need on the copy?
> >> 
> >
> > This works ONLY if IA64 has similar resource requirements.  Those 
> > requirements MAY BE the same but I would not count on it.  The VAX 
> > to Alpha transition required tweaks to a lot of the UAF and SYSGEN 
> > parameters for best performance.
> 
> I thought that was what the PQL_M* system parameters were for.

But not suitable where different classes of users have largely differing 
requirements?  I am willing to be corrected on this one if someone knows 
how to do it.

-- 
Paul Sture



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