Preface

This guide provides security, installation, configuration, usage, and removal information for system administrators who use the Logical Domains (LDoms) Management Information Base (MIB) 1.0.1 software on the control domain to monitor, receive notification changes, and start and stop logical domains on Sun UltraSPARC® T1– and T2–based platforms.


Before You Read This Book

To fully use the information in this document, you must have thorough knowledge of the operation of Logical Domains software and the topics discussed in these books:

You must know how to perform system administration operations in the Solaris 10 OS. You also must know how to use the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) and must have an understanding of the SNMP Management Information Base (MIB) and the System Management Agent (SMA). You must know the following areas:


How This Book Is Organized

Overview provides an overview of the Logical Domains Management Information Base software.

Managing Security provides instructions for creating new SNMP version 3 users to provide secure access to SMA.

Installing, Loading, and Removing the LDoms MIB provides instructions for installing, loading, and removing LDoms MIB software.

Monitoring Logical Domains describes how to monitor logical domains by querying the LDoms MIB using tables and scalar MIB variables.

Using Traps and Starting and Stopping Logical Domains describes using the traps that the LDoms MIB generates and the active management operations the LDoms MIB provides.

Glossary is a list of abbreviations, acronyms, terms and their definitions specific to the LDoms and LDoms MIB software.


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. Refer to the following for this information:


Shell Prompts


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


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.

To delete a file, type rm filename.



Related Documentation

The Beginners Guide to LDoms: Understanding and Deploying Logical Domains Software can be found at the Sun BluePrintstrademark site at:

http://www.sun.com/blueprints/0207/820-0832.html

The other Logical Domains (LDoms) and Logical Domains Management Information Base (MIB) 1.0.1 documentation is available at:

http://docs.sun.com

You can find documents relating to your server or your Solaris OS at:

http://www.sun.com/documentation/


Application Title Part Number Format Location
Release notes for LDoms MIB Logical Domains (LDoms) Management Information Base (MIB) 1.0.1 Release Notes 820-2320-10 HTML

PDF

Online
Release notes for LDoms Logical Domains (LDoms) 1.0.1 Release Notes 819-6429-12 HTML

PDF

Online
Basics for Logical Domains software Beginners Guide to LDoms: Understanding and Deploying Logical Domains Software 820-0832 PDF Online
Administration for LDoms Logical Domains (LDoms) 1.0.1 Administration Guide 819-6428-12 HTML

PDF

Online
System Management Agent Solaris System Management Agent Administration Guide 819-6813-01 HTML

PDF

Online


Documentation, Support, and Training

The Sun web site provides information about the following additional resources:


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