Preface

The Sun Management Center 3.0 User's Guide provides instructions on how to use the Sun^TM Management Center system management solution. These instructions are designed for a system administrator with networking knowledge.

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Note - In the Sun Management Center software, all alarm messages are displayed in English.

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Using UNIX Commands

This document may not contain information on basic UNIX® commands and procedures such as shutting down the system, booting the system, and configuring devices.

See one or more of the following for this information:

• Solaris Handbook for Sun Peripherals
• AnswerBook^TM online documentation for the Solaris^TM software environment
• Other software documentation that you received with your system

Typographic Conventions

TABLE  P-1   Typographic Conventions

Typeface	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 Command-line variable; replace with a real name or value	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.

Shell Prompts

TABLE  P-2   Shell Prompts

Shell	Prompt
C shell	machine_name%
C shell superuser	machine_name#
Bourne shell and Korn shell	$
Bourne shell and Korn shell superuser	#
MS-DOS Microsoft Windows	c:\

Related Documentation

For a list of related documents, see the Sun Management Center 3.0 Software Release Notes on the Sun Management Center website:

http://www.sun.com/sunmanagementcenter

Accessing Sun Documentation Online

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