Preface

The System Management Services (SMS) 1.4.1 Administrator Guide describes the SMS software components of the Sun Fire trademark high-end systems server system product line.

Before You Read This Book

This manual is intended for the Sun Fire system administrator, who has a working knowledge of UNIX® systems, particularly those based on the Solaris trademark Operating Environment. If you do not have such knowledge, read the Solaris User and System Administrator documentation provided with this 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 currently outside of the scope of this document to address system management for Sun Fire high-end systems cluster configurations.

How This Book Is Organized

This guide contains the following chapters:

Chapter 1 introduces the System Management Services software and describes its command line interfaces.

Chapter 2 introduces security on the domains.

Chapter 3 describes SMS domain internals and explains how to use them.

Chapter 4 describes domain configuration.

Chapter 5 describes the automatic diagnosis and domain recovery features.

Chapter 6 describes Capacity on Demand (COD).

Chapter 7 describes the control functions.

Chapter 8 describes network services available and how to use them.

Chapter 9 describes status monitoring.

Chapter 10 describes system controller (SC) failover.

Chapter 11 describes event monitoring.

Chapter 12 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 and their definitions.

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 operating environment documentation, which is at

http://docs.sun.com

Typographic Conventions

Typeface or Symbol	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	`%` `suPassword:`
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.

Shell Prompts

Shell	Prompt
C shell	`sc_name:sms-user:> or domain_id:sms-user:>`
C shell superuser	sc_name:`# or domain_id:#`
Bourne shell and Korn shell	`>`
Bourne shell and Korn shell superuser	`#`

Related Documentation

Application	Title	Part Number
Release Notes	System Management Services (SMS) 1.4.1 Release Notes	817-5407-10
Overview Guide	Sun Fire High-End Systems Software Overview Guide	817-3075-10
Installation	System Management Services (SMS) 1.4.1 Installation Guide	817-5409-10
Reference (man pages)	System Management Services (SMS) 1.4.1 Reference Manual	817-5408-10
Options	System Management Services (SMS) 1.4.1 Dynamic Reconfiguration User Guide	817-4459-10
	Sun Fire High-End Systems Dynamic Reconfiguration User Guide	817-4586-10
	System Administration Guide: IP Services	806-4075-11
	OpenBoot 4.x Command Reference Manual	816-1177-10
	Sun Fire 15K/12K System Site Planning Guide	806-3510-12
	Sun Fire Link Fabric Administrator's Guide	806-1405-11
	Securing the Sun Fire 12K and 15K System Controllers: Updated for SMS 1.4	817-1358-10
	Securing the Sun Fire 12K and 15K Domains: Updated for SMS 1.4	817-1357-10

Accessing Sun Documentation

You can view, print, or purchase a broad selection of Sun documentation, including localized versions, at:

http://www.sun.com/documentation

Contacting Sun Technical Support

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