Who Should Use This Book?

This guide is intended for system administrators who are responsible for managing an overall Infrastructure Fabric (I-Fabric) computing environment. Administrators should have knowledge of or be familiar with the following:

• Text editors and software that employs command-line interfaces

• UNIX^TM operating environments, file management commands and operations

• Server blades

• Computer networking

• Database administration

• Client/server software and related management issues

• Traditional server farm management

• Running scripts

• Markup languages