HP OpenVMS Systems

This is an advanced, engineering-level class. The course presents the tools and concepts of crash dump analysis, including an OpenVMS internals review, the requirements for obtaining a valid system dump, the methodology for attacking crashes, and extensive usage of the System Dump Analyzer (SDA). The students will be provided with techniques for attacking the most difficult crashes. The course includes many lab exercises designed to reinforce the skills taught in the lecture portion of the class. Although some of the lab exercises are contrived examples to demonstrate specific types of bugchecks, most of the lab exercises are real-life, customer crashes that have been logged to the customer support center for analysis and later elevated to OpenVMS engineering.