Preface

The Sun Fire T2000 Server Administration Guide is for experienced system administrators. The guide includes general descriptive information about the Sun Fire^TM T2000 server, and detailed instructions for configuring and administering the server. To use the information in this manual, you must have working knowledge of computer network concepts and terms, and advanced familiarity with the Solaris trademark Operating System (Solaris OS).

Note - For information about changing the hardware configuration of your server, or about running diagnostics, see the service manual for your server.

How This Book Is Organized

The Sun Fire T2000 Server Administration Guide is divided into the following chapters:

Chapter 1 describes the system console and how to access it.

Chapter 2 describes the tools used to configure system firmware, including system controller environmental monitoring, automatic system recovery (ASR), and multipathing software. In addition, the chapter describes how to unconfigure and reconfigure a device manually.

Chapter 3 describes redundant array of independent disks (RAID) concepts, and how to configure and manage RAID disk volumes using the your server's onboard serial attached SCSI (SAS) disk controller.

This manual also includes the following reference appendix:

Appendix A provides a list of all OpenBoot configuration variables and a short description of each.

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 OS documentation

Shell Prompts

Shell	Prompt
C shell	machine-name`%`
C shell superuser	machine-name`#`
Bourne shell and Korn shell	`$`
Bourne shell and Korn shell superuser	`#`

Typographic Conventions

Typeface`^[1]`	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. You must be superuser to do this. To delete a file, type `rm` filename.

Typeface^[1]

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.

You must be superuser to do this.

To delete a file, type rm filename.

Sun Fire T2000 Server Documentation

You can view and print the following manuals from the Sun documentation web site at http://www.sun.com/documentation

Title	Description	Part Number
Sun Fire T2000 Server Site Planning Guide	Site planning information for the Sun Fire T2000 server	819-2545
Sun Fire T2000 Server Product Notes	Late-breaking information about the server. The latest notes are posted at: http://www.sun.com/documentation	819-2544
Sun Fire T2000 Server Getting Started Guide	Information about where to find documentation to get your system installed and running quickly	819-2542
Sun Fire T2000 Server Installation Guide	Detailed rack mounting, cabling, power-on, and configuration information	819-2546
Sun Fire T2000 Server Administration Guide	How to perform administrative tasks that are specific to the Sun Fire T2000 server	819-2549
Sun Fire T2000 Server Service Manual	How to run diagnostics to troubleshoot your server and how to remove and replace parts in the server	819-2548
Advanced Lights Out Manager (ALOM) CMT v1.3 Guide	How to use the Advanced Lights Out Manager (ALOM) software on the Sun Fire T2000 server	819-7981
Sun Fire T2000 Server Safety And Compliance Guide	Provides safety and compliance information that is specific to this server.	819-7982

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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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