SIMS Components and Tasks

TABLE  2-1   SIMS Components and Tasks (see FIGURE 2-1 on page 49)

Components/Task	Description	Page
1) Stop SIMS, Logging Out and Version Information	Self Explanatory	54
2) User Management	Provides instructions for adding, deleting, or modifying user, group or organizational units entries in the directory.	57
3) Event Log Manager	The Log Manager enables you to trace event messages that may help you determine why the component is in an alert or down state.	248
4) Internet Message Transport Agent (IMTA) Administration	The IMTA is the SIMS component that receives, routes, and sends incoming messages to their destination. SIMS message transport can be customized by modifying the IMTA attributes. This chapter provides instructions for viewing and changing the message transport characteristics of SIMS, including configuring/monitoring channels, directory cache update, anti-spam features, IMTA location relative to firewall, and routability scope.	95
5) Message Store Administration	The Sun Message Store contains the messages and attachments of the SIMS email system. You can monitor and customize the SIMS message storage and access characteristics by modifying the parameters of this component. This chapter provides instructions for monitoring message store paths, space usage and user space quotas; configuring user quotas, mail server client type, directory context, maximum connections, disk space threshold, /var/mail support, message store size increase, message purge schedule.	141
6) Message Access Protocol Connections	View and monitor all user connections to SIMS, as well as start and stop client access to the message store.	161
7) Sun Directory Services Administration	The Sun Directory Service (SDS) or LDAP Server contains the addressing information for SIMS. When an email is received, the IMTA looks up the address in the directory to determine its forwarding destination. This chapter provides instructions for viewing and modifying the SDS, including modifying general properties, data store configuration, logging, directory replication, modifying the schema, configuring access control, populating the directory, and web access to the directory.	163
8) Help	On-line help for SIMS including this book.
9) Home	Return to Home Page.
10) SIMS Component Status	Display the current state of each component.	52
Other Important Tasks and Chapters:
Maintenance	Describes various maintenance tasks including SIMS licensing, messages store backup and restore, folder checks, importing /var/mail users, and Sun Directory Service maintenance.	225
Troubleshooting	Various troubleshooting procedures.	247
Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) Support in SIMS	Adding SSL support in SIMS.	269
User Administration	Changing mail passwords, start/stop vacation notice, mail forwarding, alternative delivery programs.	279
Configuring SIMS as a Proxy Message Access Server	Describes how to use the SIMS message access proxy capabilities.	285
SIMS Directory Schema and Directory Information Tree	Describes the SIMS directory information tree (DIT) requirements and the type and format of objects and attributes for SIMS directory entries.	329
Error Messages	Lists SIMS error messages and appropriate responses.	357

When you set a configuration, you must press the Apply button to save your settings. If you do not do this, you may lose your settings. You are not always warned about losing the settings when you exit a page.