C H A P T E R 2 - Sun Fire High-End Systems Software Documentation Set

C H A P T E R 2

Sun Fire High-End Systems Software Documentation Set

Sun Fire high-end systems software documentation contains three categories of documents:

Usage, reference, installation, and release note documents for software that runs only on Sun Fire high-end systems. This category includes System Management Services (SMS) software documents.

Sun software documentation that applies to other systems and workstations as well as to Sun Fire high-end systems. This category includes Solaris Operating System usage, reference, installation, and release documents, as well as individual man page commands.

Documentation for Sun software products that run on other Sun hardware platforms but require additional information and instructions when running on Sun Fire high-end systems. This category includes Sun Management Center software documents.

In addition, some hardware and service documents are shipped with the Sun Fire high-end systems hardware. Two of these, the Sun Fire 15K/12K System Site Planning Guide and the Sun Fire E25K/E20K System Site Planning Guide, each contain a preinstallation checklist that includes a necessary step for allocating a range of Internet Protocol (IP) addresses to be used by Management Network software.

Audience for This Document Set

Sun Fire high-end systems are used in mission-critical data centers. The intended audience for the Sun Fire high-end systems software documentation set is experienced system administrators who configure and maintain these high-end systems.

Sun Fire high-end system administrators should be able to qualify as Sun-Certified System Administrators for the Solaris Operating System and as Sun-Certified Network Administrators for the Solaris Operating System. This certification, available from Sun Microsystems, is for system administrators tasked with performing essential system administration procedures on the Solaris Operating System, and for technical application support staff responsible for administering a networked system running the Solaris Operating System.

Sun Microsystems publishes guidelines to help you understand the certification process. The guidelines contain the following information needed to learn how to prepare and register for Solaris Operating System certification examinations:

Certification requirements

Examination details

Supporting courseware

Testing objectives

For these guidelines and more information about the certification process, click the Certification link at:

http://suned.sun.com

Certification often accompanies coursework, and Sun Fire high-end system administrators should be familiar with the contents of the standard Sun Educational Services courses in Solaris Operating System administration and network administration, especially:

The Solaris Operating System Administrator I course, which provides information about the essential tasks of standalone installation, file system management, backup procedures, process control, user administration, and device management.

The Solaris Operating System Administrator II course, which provides students with the skills necessary to administer Sun systems running Solaris software in a network environment. Students are taught how to maintain Sun systems, configure and troubleshoot NFS, and configure the Network Information Service (NIS) environment.

The Solaris Operating System TCP/IP Network Administration course, which teaches students the advanced administration skills required to plan, create, administer, and troubleshoot a local area network (LAN). This course provides hands-on experience with network planning, configuration, and troubleshooting, as well as Internet Protocol (IP) routing, Domain Name Service (DNS), Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP), and IP version 6 (IPv6).

For more information about these courses and their contents, look for Solaris Operating System courses at:

http://suned.sun.com/

Because some system administration procedures are delegated to operators who may be less familiar with the Solaris Operating System and with Sun Fire high-end systems, step-by-step procedures such as installation and configuration are written more simply, with a single step for each action the operator must take, and ample examples of the messages the operator will see after these steps.

Where to Find Information About Sun Fire High-End System Software

The software documentation for Sun Fire high-end systems includes user guides, reference manuals (including individual man pages that can be viewed separately using the man command), installation guides, release notes, and README files.

For production software releases, these software documents are also available on the Sun Microsystems Web site. You can navigate to them by clicking the High-End Servers link at:

http://www.sun.com/products-n-solutions/hardware/docs/Servers/

Solaris Operating System Information

Refer to the Solaris Operating System installation documents and release notes included in your Solaris Operating System media kit for installing or upgrading the Solaris Operating System on any Sun Fire high-end systems domains.

SMS Software Information

Refer to the System Management Services (SMS 1.5) Administrator Guide for platform administration information.

Refer to the System Management Services (SMS 1.5) Reference Manual, and the individual SMS man pages it contains, for information about individual SMS command usage and syntax.

Refer to the System Management Services (SMS 1.5) Installation Guide for upgrading or reinstalling SMS software on a main or spare system controller.

Dynamic Reconfiguration Software Information

Refer to the Sun Fire High-End and Midrange Systems Dynamic Reconfiguration User Guide to perform DR operations from the system controller as a platform administrator.

Refer to the Sun Fire 15K/12K Dynamic Reconfiguration User's Guide and the cfgadm(1M) and dr(7) man pages for the usage and syntax of DR operations performed while logged on to an individual domain.

Refer to the Sun Management Center 3.5 Version 6 Supplement for Sun Fire High-End Systems for information about performing DR and other system management operations in the Sun Management Center environment.

Sun Management Center Software Information

Refer to the Sun Management Center Software User's Guide and Sun Management Center 3.5 Version 6 Supplement for Sun Fire High-End Systems for information about using Sun Management Center on Sun Fire high-end systems.

Refer to the Sun Management Center Software Installation Guide, Sun Management Center 3.5 Version 6 Supplement for Sun Fire High-End Systems, and Sun Management Center Software Release Notes for information about installing, upgrading, or configuring Sun Management Center software on Sun Fire high-end systems.

For more information about Sun Management Center and the other platforms it supports, or to download the software or the documentation, refer to the Sun Management Center Web site at:

http://www.sun.com/sunmanagementcenter/