System Management Tools and Utilities

                                    from the

                    General Electric Microelectronics Center

                     Research Triangle Park, North Carolina


                                 Robert L. Boyd

                        GE MEC, POB 13049, RTP, NC 27709

                     (919) 549-3627, GE DIALCOMM 8*278-3627


                                  1-June-1984

         At the time  of  this  submission,  the  GE  Microelectronics
    Center   is  operating  3  VAX  11/780  systems  in  a  VAXCLUSTER
    configuration with a total of approximately 5  Gigabytes  of  disk
    storage.  We service about 220 users on a regular basis.  We first
    started our operation in January 1981 and  have  expanded  rapidly
    over  the  3  years since then.  Most of the system management and
    operations work has been performed by no more than  2  individuals
    at  any one time until the last few months.  We are in the process
    of expanding our system support staff to a total of 4  individuals
    in the near future.

         Contained in this directory tree are a collection of  various
    command  procedures,  data files and executable images and sources
    which are used on a daily basis at the GE Microelectronics Center.

         Many of these submissions could  be  converted  from  command
    procedures  to  programs,  and may be re-submitted in that form at
    future symposia.  No claim  is  made  that  these  procedures  are
    perfected.   There  are  many  things on our wish list in terms of
    improvements and additions to the materials you will find in  this
    submission.

         We do believe that these procedures and programs  demonstrate
    many  usefull  applications of DCL, some of which are particularly
    innovative.  If you have comments, suggestions, or re-work any  of
    the  material  you  will  find in these directories, please let me
    know about it.  I will be glad to answer questions, either by mail
    or by phone as time permits.

         The various  subdirectories  are  primarily  related  to  the
    purposes that each of their names suggest:

    1.  Accountng -- command  procedures  we  have  used  for  routine
        summaries of the accounting files.

    2.  Backups -- command procedures that perform  our  daily  backup
        routines and a sample data file to drive it.

    3.  Disk -- command procedures and data files specifically related
        to routine procedures with disk drives aside from backups.

    4.  Logins -- command procedures specifically  related  to  system
        wide login procedure.
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    5.  Queues -- command  procedures  related  to  the  starting  and
        stopping  of  queues,  as  well as examples of self scheduling
        jobs.

    6.  Syscom -- general procedures, particularly those  we  use  for
        system startup and shutdown.

    7.  Sysmgr -- command procedures  which  we  keep  in  the  system
        manager's directory.

    8.  Utility -- multipurpose command procedures and programs.


         In general the command procedures found in these  directories
    depend on a set of selected logical names:

    1.  accnt -- points to the accountng directory

    2.  backups -- points to the backups directory

    3.  diskcom -- points to the disk directory

    4.  quecom -- points to the quecom directory

    5.  syscom -- points to the syscom directory

    6.  sys$mgr -- points to the same place as sys$manager:

    7.  utility -- points to the utility directory