Sun Fire V445 Server Administration Guide

The Sun Fire V445 Server Administration Guide is intended for experienced system administrators. It includes general descriptive information about the Sun Fire^TM V445 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 Operating System (OS).

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How This Book Is Organized

The Sun Fire V445 Server Administration Guide is divided into the following chapters:

• Chapter 1 presents an illustrated overview of the system and a description of the system's reliability, availability, and serviceability (RAS) features, as well as new features introduced with this server.
• Chapter 2 describes the system console and how to access it.
• Chapter 3 describes how to power on and power off the system, and how to initiate a reconfiguration boot.
• Chapter 4 describes and illustrates system hardware components. It also includes configuration information for CPU/Memory modules and DIMMs.
• Chapter 5 describes the tools used to configure system firmware, including Sun^TM Advanced Lights Out Manager (ALOM) system controller environmental monitoring, automatic system recovery (ASR), hardware watchdog mechanism, and multipathing software. In addition, it describes how to unconfigure and reconfigure a device manually.
• Chapter 6 describes how to manage internal disk volumes and devices.
• Chapter 7 provides instructions for configuring network interfaces.
• Chapter 8 describes how to perform system diagnostics.
• Chapter 9 describes how to troubleshoot the system.

This manual also includes the following appendices:

• Appendix A details connector pinouts.
• Appendix B provides tables of various system specifications.
• Appendix C provides a list of all OpenBoot configuration variables, and a short description of each.

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Using UNIX Commands

This document might not contain information about basic UNIX® commands and procedures such as shutting down the system, booting the system, and configuring devices.

See one or more of the following for this information:

• Online documentation for the Solaris OS at docs.sun.com
• Other software documentation that you received with your system

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Typographic Conventions

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System Prompts

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Related Documentation

The documents listed as online are available at:

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

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Documentation, Support, and Training

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