Preface

The Sun Blade T6300 Server Module Administration Guide is written for experienced system administrators. This guide includes general descriptive information about the Sun Blade trademark T6300 server module and detailed instructions for configuring and administering the server module. To use the information in this guide, you must have working knowledge of computer network concepts and terms and advanced familiarity with the Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS).

How This Book Is Organized

This guide is divided into the following chapters:

Chapter 1 describes the system console and how to access it.

Chapter 2 describes the tools used to configure system firmware, including Sun Advanced Lights Out Manager (ALOM) CMT system controller environmental monitoring, Automatic System Recovery (ASR), and multipathing software. In addition, this chapter describes how to unconfigure and reconfigure a device manually.

Appendix A provides a list of all OpenBoot configuration variables, and a short description of each.

Using UNIX Commands

This document might not contain information on basic UNIX^® commands and procedures such as shutting down the system, booting the system, and configuring devices. See the following for this information:

Software documentation that you received with your system

Solaris OS documentation, which is at:

http://docs.sun.com

Shell Prompts

Shell	Prompt
C shell	machine-name`%`
C shell superuser	machine-name`#`
Bourne shell and Korn shell	`$`
Bourne shell and Korn shell superuser	`#`

Table with examples of the types of shell prompts that are used in this book.

Typographic Conventions

Typeface`^[1]`	Meaning	Examples
`AaBbCc123`	The names of commands, files, and directories; on-screen computer output	Edit your`.login` file. Use `ls` `-a` to list all files. `% You have mail`.
`AaBbCc123`	What you type, when contrasted with on-screen computer output	`%` `su` `Password:`
AaBbCc123	Book titles, new words or terms, words to be emphasized. Replace command-line variables with real names or values.	Read Chapter 6 in the User's Guide. These are called class options. You must be superuser to do this. To delete a file, type `rm` filename.

Typeface^[1]

Meaning

Examples

AaBbCc123

The names of commands, files, and directories; on-screen computer output

Edit your.login file.

Use ls -a to list all files.

% You have mail.

AaBbCc123

What you type, when contrasted with on-screen computer output

% su

Password:

AaBbCc123

Book titles, new words or terms, words to be emphasized. Replace command-line variables with real names or values.

Read Chapter 6 in the User's Guide.

These are called class options.

You must be superuser to do this.

To delete a file, type rm filename.

Application	Title	Part Number	Format	Location
Late breaking news	Sun Blade T6300 Server Module Product Notes	820-0278	HTML and PDF	Online
Installation	Sun Blade T6300 Server Module Installation Guide	820-0275	HTML and PDF	Online
Service	Sun Blade T6300 Server Module Service Manual	820-0276	HTML and PDF	Online
Safety and compliance	Sun Blade T6300 Server Module Safety and Compliance Manual	820-0279	HTML and PDF	Online
ALOM	Advanced Lights Out Management (ALOM) CMT v1.3 Guide	819-7981	HTML and PDF	Online

Documentation, Support, and Training

Sun Function	URL
Documentation	`http://www.sun.com/documentation/`
Support	`http://www.sun.com/support/`
Training	`http://www.sun.com/training/`

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