Preface |
The System Management Services (SMS) 1.5 Administrator Guide describes how to perform various administration and monitoring tasks associated with the SMS software.
This manual is intended for the Sun Fire system administrator, who has a working knowledge of UNIX® systems, particularly those based on the Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS). If you do not have such knowledge, read the Solaris User and System Administrator documentation provided with your system, and consider UNIX system administration training.
All members of the next-generation Sun Fire server family can be configured as loosely coupled clusters. However, it is outside of the scope of this document to address system management for Sun Fire high-end system cluster configurations.
This guide contains the following chapters:
Chapter 1 introduces the System Management Services software and describes its command-line interface.
Chapter 2 introduces security on the domains and system controllers.
Chapter 3 introduces administrative privileges.
Chapter 4 describes SMS domain internals and explains their use.
Chapter 5 describes domain configuration, options and procedures.
Chapter 6 describes the automatic diagnosis and domain recovery features.
Chapter 7 describes Capacity on Demand (COD).
Chapter 8 describes the control functions.
Chapter 9 describes network services available and explains their use.
Chapter 10 describes status monitoring.
Chapter 12 describes system controller (SC) failover.
Chapter 11 describes event monitoring.
Chapter 13 describes SMS utilities for creating and restoring backups, configuring networks and user groups, and upgrading SMS software.
Appendix A provides a list of SMS man pages.
Appendix B describes SMS error messages.
Glossary is a list of words and phrases used in this document and their definitions.
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:
Sun Fire High-End and Midrange Systems Dynamic Reconfiguration User Guide |
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