Preface

The System Management Services (SMS) 1.6 Administrator Guide describes how to perform various administration and monitoring tasks associated with the SMS software.


Before You Read This Book

This manual is intended for the Sun Firetrademark system administrator, who has a working knowledge of UNIX® systems, particularly those based on the Solaristrademark 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.


How This Book Is Organized

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 11 describes event monitoring.

Chapter 12 describes system controller (SC) failover.

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.


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:

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

% 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.



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

The SMS documents are available at:

http://www.sun.com/products-n-solutions/hardware/docs/Servers/High-End_Servers/Sun_Fire_e25K-e20K/SW_FW_Documentation/SMS/index.html

The other documents can be found by typing in the name of the document in Search at:

Listing of other documentation that may be related to this book or product.http://www.sun.com/documentation/


Application

Title

Part Number

Format

Location

Software Overview

Sun Fire High-End Systems Software Overview Guide

819-4658-10

PDF HTML

Online

Installation

System Management Services (SMS) 1.6 Installation Guide

819-4659-10

PDF HTML

Online

Reference (man pages)

System Management Services (SMS) 1.6 Reference Manual

819-4662-10

PDF HTML

Online

Release Notes

System Management Services (SMS) 1.6 Release Notes

819-4663-10

PDF HTML

Online

Dynamic Reconfiguration

Sun Fire High-End and Midrange Systems Dynamic Reconfiguration User Guide

819-1501-10

PDF HTML

Online

OpenBoot

OpenBoottrademark 4.x Command Reference Manual

816-1177-10

PDF HTML

Online

Site Planning

Sun Fire 15K/12K System Site Planning Guide

806-3510-12

PDF HTML

Online

Security

Solaris Security Toolkit 4.2 Administration Guide

819-1402-10

PDF HTML

Online

Security

Solaris Security Toolkit 4.2 Reference Manual

819-1503-10

PDF HTML

Online

Security

Solaris Security Toolkit 4.2 Release Notes

819-1504-10

PDF HTML

Online

Security

Solaris Security Toolkit 4.2 Man Page Guide

819-1505-10

PDF HTML

Online

Solaris 10 OS IP Services

System Administration Guide: IP Services

816-4554

PDF HTML

Online



Documentation, Support, and Training


Sun Function

URL

Documentation

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

Support

http://www.sun.com/support/

Training

http://www.sun.com/training/



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