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HP Predictive Support User's Guide For HP 3000 Series 900
(c) Copyright 1992, Hewlett-Packard Company. All rights reserved. The information contained in this document is subject to change without notice. Hewlett-Packard makes no warranty of any kind regarding this material, including, but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. Hewlett-Packard shall not be liable for errors contained herein or for incidental or consequential damages in connection with the furnishing, performance, or use of this material. Hewlett-Packard assumes no responsibility for the use or reliability of its software on equipment that is not furnished by Hewlett-Packard. This document contains proprietary information which is protected by copyright. All rights are reserved. No part of this document may be photocopied, reproduced or translated to another language without the prior written consent of Hewlett-Packard Company. Printed in USA HP Part No. 50779-90012 Edition First Edition Printed August 1992 Printing History New Editions are complete revisions of the manual. Update packages, which are issued between editions, contain additional and replacement pages to be merged into the manual by the customer. The dates on the title page change only when a new edition or a new update is published. No information is incorporated into a reprinting unless it appears as a prior update; the edition does not change when an update is incorporated. Note that many product updates and fixes do not require manual changes and, conversely, manual corrections may be done without accompanying product changes. Therefore, do not expect a one-to-one correspondence between product updates and manual updates. Edition 1 ............................................August 1992 Preface Welcome to HP Predictive Support MPE/iX, an early warning system that links your HP 3000 series 900 system via modem or the X.25 network to the expertise of the Hewlett-Packard support organization. HP Predictive Support assists in transforming unscheduled downtime into scheduled maintenance by locating potential problems before they occur and alerting the HP support team. This manual serves as a reference and guide to the installation of HP Predictive Support on HP 3000 series 900 systems. Its audience is the customer's system administrator and the HP Account CE (Customer Engineer) and it assumes that the audience has a basic understanding of MPE/iX system concepts. The manual is intended for use with systems running MPE/iX 3.0 and later. Contact your CE for information on running HP Predictive Support on earlier systems. MPE/iX, Multiprogramming Executive with Integrated POSIX, is the latest in a series of forward-compatible operating systems for the HP 3000 line of computers. In HP documentation and in talking with HP 3000 users, you will encounter references to MPE XL, the direct predecessor of MPE/iX. MPE/iX is a superset of MPE XL. All programs written for MPE XL will run without change under MPE/iX. You can continue to use MPE XL system documentation, although it may not refer to features added tot he operating system to support POSIX (for example, hierarchical directories). Finally, you may encounter references to MPE V, which is the operating system for HP 3000s, not based on the PA-RISC architecture. MPE V software can be run on the PA-RISC (Series 900) HP 3000s in which is known as compatibility mode.