Sun Fire X4500/X4540 Servers Administration Guide

This manual consists of two parts:

The Sun Fire X4500 Server Administration Guide describes how to perform various administration, configuration, and monitoring tasks associated with the Sun Fire X4500 Server.

This guide contains the following chapters:

• Chapter 1 provides an introduction to the Sun Fire X4500 server information.
• Chapter 2 provides system and operating environment information.
• Chapter 3 provides information on how to identify and configure components.
• Chapter 4 provides disk administration and management information.
• Chapter 5 provides fault management architecture information.
• Chapter 6 provides information about how to rebuild the preinstalled OS.
• Chapter 7 provides information about how to use the Disk Control and Monitor Utility (DCMU).

The Sun Fire X4540 Server Administration Guide describes how to administer, configure, and monitor the Sun Fire X4540 Server.

This guide contains the following chapters:

• Chapter 8 provides an introduction to the Sun Fire X4540 server information.
• Chapter 9 provides system and operating environment information.
• Chapter 10 provides information on how to identify and configure components.
• Chapter 11 provides hard disk management information.
• Chapter 12 provides fault management architecture information.
• Chapter 13 provides information about how to use the Solaris Volume Manager to manually re-create the mirrored preinstalled Solaris Operating System (OS).

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Before You Read This Book

It is important that you review the safety guidelines in the Safety and Compliance Guide (819-4365).

This document is intended for the Sun Fire system administrator, who has a working knowledge of UNIX® systems, particularly those based on the Solaris Operating System (OS). If you do not have this knowledge, read the Solaris User and System Administrator documentation provided with your system, and consider UNIX system administration training.

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Sun Fire X4500 Specific Documents

Refer to the Sun Fire X4540 Server Installation Guide (819-4358) for system installation information with default settings.

The Sun Fire X4500 specific documents listed in the following table are available at:

http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/prod/sf.x4500#hic

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Sun Fire X4540 Specific Documents

The Sun Fire X4540 specific documents listed in the following table are available at:

http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/prod/sf.X4540#hic

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General Documents

The related general documents listed in the following table are available at:

http://docs.sun.com

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Documentation, Support, and Training

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