Preface
The Sun N1™ Service Provisioning System 5.1 System Administration Guide provides procedures for configuring the provisioning system after installation and managing the provisioning system as your environment changes.
Who Should Use This Book
This book is for system administrators who are responsible for configuring and maintaining the Sun N1 Service Provisioning System software.
How This Book Is Organized
Chapter 1, Sun N1 Service Provisioning System Overview provides an overview of the Sun N1 Service Provisioning System software product and high-level instructions of what needs to be done to configure the provisioning system after installation. A brief discussion of the provisioning system's user interfaces is also included.
Chapter 2, Managing Hosts, Host Types, Host Sets, and Host Searches describes how to manage your servers with the provisioning system.
Chapter 3, Controlling Access Using Permissions describes the different types of permissions available in the provisioning system.
Chapter 4, Managing Users describes how to set up and manage user accounts with the provisioning system.
Chapter 5, Plug-In Administration describes how to import and perform basic administrative tasks with third-party plug-ins.
Chapter 6, Setting Up Folders describes how to perform folder administration tasks.
Chapter 7, Managing Objects describes different ways you can manage objects within the provisioning system.
Chapter 8, Monitoring System Activity describes how to set up email notifications using notification rules and how to view host logs.
Chapter 9, Backing Up and Restoring describes how to perform backups in the provisioning system.
Appendix A, Authentication Methods describes how to set up new authentication methods within the provisioning system.
Appendix B, Commonly Updated Configuration Variables provides a description of several config.properties variables.
Related Books
The following books belong to the Sun N1 Service Provisioning System 5.1 documentation collection. All books listed below are available on docs.sun.com.
Table P–1 Sun N1 Service Provisioning System 5.1 Documentation|
Application |
Title |
|---|---|
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Software Installation | |
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Plan and component creation |
Sun N1 Service Provisioning System 5.1 Plan and Component Developer’s Guide |
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Plan and component deployment |
Sun N1 Service Provisioning System 5.1 Operation and Provisioning Guide |
|
Command reference |
Sun N1 Service Provisioning System 5.1 Command-Line Interface Reference Manual |
|
XML Schema Reference |
Sun N1 Service Provisioning System 5.1 XML Schema Reference Guide |
|
Release Notes | |
|
Plug-in Development |
Sun N1 Service Provisioning System 5.1 Plug-in Development Guide |
Documentation, Support, and Training
|
Sun Function |
URL |
Description |
|---|---|---|
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Documentation |
Download PDF and HTML documents, and order printed documents |
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Support and Training |
Obtain technical support, download patches, and learn about Sun courses |
Typographic Conventions
The following table describes the typographic changes that are used in this book.
Table P–2 Typographic Conventions|
Typeface or Symbol |
Meaning |
Example |
|---|---|---|
|
AaBbCc123 |
The names of commands, files, and directories, and onscreen computer output |
Edit your .login file. Use ls -a to list all files. machine_name% you have mail. |
|
AaBbCc123 |
What you type, contrasted with onscreen computer output |
machine_name% su Password: |
|
aabbcc123 |
Placeholder: replace with a real name or value |
The command to remove a file is rm filename. |
|
AaBbCc123 |
Book titles, new terms, and terms to be emphasized |
Read Chapter 6 in the User's Guide. Perform a patch analysis. Do not save the file. [Note that some emphasized items appear bold online.] |
Shell Prompts in Command Examples
The following table shows the default system prompt and superuser prompt for the C shell, Bourne shell, and Korn shell.
Table P–3 Shell Prompts|
Shell |
Prompt |
|---|---|
|
C shell prompt |
machine_name% |
|
C shell superuser prompt |
machine_name# |
|
Bourne shell and Korn shell prompt |
$ |
|
Bourne shell and Korn shell superuser prompt |
# |
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