Preface

The N1^TM Provisioning Server software provides a comprehensive infrastructure automation solution. This solution enhances the management, visibility, and control of the Sun Fire^TM B1600 Blade System Chassis. The software allows the complete design configuration, deployment, and management of multiple independent, secure, logical server farms.

The Control Center is the user interface from which you deploy and manage logical server farms in an N1 environment. This guide provides detailed instructions on using the Control Center screens to perform farm management tasks.

Who Should Use This Book

This guide is intended for data center administrators. These technical users are familiar with network, computing, and storage technology: network designers and IT architects, who can create and activate farm designs.

How This Book Is Organized

The Control Center is referred to as the Control Center or CC throughout this document. This user guide is divided into the following chapters:

• Part I, Control Center Management Concepts provides a general overview of farm management. This part includes a high-level description of the N1 Provisioning Server software and how the software works within an Infrastructure Fabric (I-Fabric). Control Center navigation, accounts, and software image management are also discussed in this part of the guide.

• Part II, Farm Management Tasks provides specific instructions on how to design, configure, and provide ongoing management of logical server farms.

Related Publications

• N1 Provisioning Server 3.1, Blades Edition, System Administration Guide

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Using UNIX Commands

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

For more information about UNIX commands and procedures, see the following documents:

• Solaris Handbook for Sun Peripherals

• Online documentation for the Solaris operating environment

• Other software documentation that you received with your system

Typographic Conventions

Table P–1 Typographic Conventions

Typeface	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  Command-line variable: replace with a real name or value	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.

Shell Prompts

Table P–2 Shell Prompts

Shell	Prompt
C shell	machine_name%
C shell superuser	machine_name#
Bourne shell and Korn shell	$
Bourne shell and Korn shell superuser	#
Microsoft DOS, Microsoft Windows	c:\

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