[Info-vax] New installment in The OpenVMS Consultant: Shutdowns using STARTUP.COM

[Chris Townley]

On 27/12/2020 15:30, David Jones wrote:
> On Sunday, December 27, 2020 at 9:26:25 AM UTC-5, geze... at rlgsc.com wrote:
>> The latest installment of The OpenVMS Consultant has been posted.
>>
>> OpenVMS STARTUP.COM is far more than a tool for controlling system startup. It can also be used to accomplish a phased Shutdown of a complex environment.
>>
>> See http://www.rlgsc.com/blog/openvms-consultant/shutdown-using-startup.html
>>
> 
> The biggest hazard to an orderly shutdown is that you terminal session goes when the network is shut off, leaving your system in a partially shutdown state.
> I changed my shutdown symbol from "@sys$system:shutdown ..." to "$SYSMAN SHUTDOWN NODE /minutes=..." (appending /auto/save as needed).
> 

That is a good idea. I had this problem at work on development VAX and 
Alpha, where the serial console terminals barely worked, so we had to 
shutdown etc from terminal sessions (LAT or TCP/IP)

Now, at home I will use this on my physical alpha - no need on the 
virtual ones - they have a console courtesy of Putty

Chris