B.1 Site and Hardware Configuration

• Equipment inventory

• Equipment layout diagrams

• Electrical system

• UPS, conditioning, emergency shutoff, alarms

• Air conditioning BTU requirements, current usage, alarms

• Safety equipment

• Halon, fire extinguishers, heat, smoke, water alarms

• VMS configuration

• Versions in use on each system

• Special tailoring

• Patches applied

• System-parameter settings

• Page-/swap-file sizing

• System boot procedures

• Console subsystem initialization

• Configuration of front panel switches

• Normal boot procedures

• Conversational boot procedures

• Stand-alone backup boot procedures

• System startup procedures

• Flowchart of startup procedures

• Special order dependencies

• System shutdown procedures

• Preshutdown procedures

• Configuration of SYSHUTDWN.COM

• Normal shutdown

• Shutdown with reboot

• Installed optional software products

• Details on each installed optional product

• Date, version, location, startup, and shutdown procedures

• Required VMS version, SYSGEN, and UAF requirements

• User account management procedures

• Username formats

• Single ownership of accounts

• Preexpiration of new passwords

• Organization of UIC groups

• Configuration of the DEFAULT account

• Password policy

• System login procedures

• Flowchart of login process

• Global symbols defined

• Assigning default print queue

• Departmental administrative issues

• Staff-organization chart

• Outline of staff responsibilities

• Maintenance agreement strategies

• Operation production jobs

• Production job schedule

• Servicing job requests

• Job rerun procedures

• Handling job exceptions

• Backups

• Requirements dictated by business

• Backup strategies

• Daily backup procedures

• Guide to support resources

• Internal

• HP and third party

• Documentation inventory

• Books and publications

• System-integrity monitoring

• Procedures for detecting and handling the following:

  • Disk errors

  • Low disk space

  • Failed job or process

  • Runaway jobs

  • Network failures

• Security procedures

• Requirements of business

• Security strategy

• Security...