Preface

The System Management Services (SMS) 1.2 Administrator Guide describes the SMS software components of the Sun Fire trademark 15K server system product line.

Before You Read This Book

This manual is intended for the Sun Fire system administrator, who has a working knowledge of UNIX® systems, particularly those based on the Solaris trademark 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 15K cluster configurations.

How This Book Is Organized

This guide contains the following chapters:

Chapter 1 introduces System Management Services 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 control functions.

Chapter 6 describes network services available and how to use them.

Chapter 7 describes status monitoring.

Chapter 8 describes system controller (SC) failover.

Chapter 9 describes event monitoring.

Chapter 10 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.

Using UNIX Commands

This document may not contain information on basic UNIX commands and procedures such as shutting down the system, booting the system, and configuring devices.

Refer to one or more of the following for this information:

Solaris Handbook for Sun Peripherals

Online documentation for the Solaris software environment

Other software documentation that you received with your system

Typographic Conventions

Typeface or Symbol	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	Read Chapter 6 in the User's Guide . These are called class options. You must be superuser to do this.
	Command-line variable; replace with a real name or value	To delete a file, type `rm` filename .

Shell Prompts

Shell	Prompt
C shell	`sc_name : sms-user :> or domain_id : sms-user :>`
C shell superuser	sc_name: `# or domain_id :#`
Bourne shell and Korn shell	`>`
Bourne shell and Korn shell superuser	`#`

Related Documentation

Application	Title	Part Number
Reference (man pages)	System Management Services (SMS) 1.2 Reference Manual	816-3267-10
Installation	System Management Services (SMS) 1.2 Installation Guide and Release Notes	816-3269-10
Options	System Management Services (SMS) 1.2 Dynamic Reconfiguration User Guide	816-4279-10
	Sun Fire 15K Dynamic Reconfiguration User Guide	816-4278-10
	System Administration Guide: IP Services	806-4075-10
	OpenBoot 4.x Command Reference Manual	816-1177-10

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