Preface |
The System Management Services (SMS) 1.4 Administrator Guide describes the SMS software components of the Sun Fire high-end systems server system product line.
This manual is intended for the Sun Fire system administrator, who has a working knowledge of UNIX® systems, particularly those based on the Solaris Operating Environment. If you do not have such knowledge, read the Solaris User and System Administrator documentation provided with this system, and consider UNIX system administration training.
All members of the next-generation Sun Fire server family can be configured as loosely coupled clusters. However, it is currently outside of the scope of this document to address system management for Sun Fire high-end systems cluster configurations.
This guide contains the following chapters:
Chapter 1 introduces the System Management Services software and describes its command line interfaces.
Chapter 2 introduces security on the domains.
Chapter 3 describes SMS domain internals and explains how to use them.
Chapter 4 describes domain configuration.
Chapter 5 describes the automatic diagnosis and domain recovery features.
Chapter 6 describes Capacity on Demand (COD).
Chapter 7 describes the control functions.
Chapter 8 describes network services available and how to use them.
Chapter 9 describes status monitoring.
Chapter 10 describes system controller (SC) failover.
Chapter 11 describes event monitoring.
Chapter 12 describes SMS utilities for creating and restoring backups, configuring networks and user groups and upgrading SMS software.
Appendix A provides a list of SMS man pages.
Appendix B describes SMS error messages.
Glossary is a list of words and phrases and their definitions.
This document might not contain information on basic UNIX® commands and procedures such as shutting down the system, booting the system, and configuring devices. See the following for this information:
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