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Sun Fire High-End Systems Software Documentation Set |
Sun Fire high-end systems software documentation comprises three categories of documents:
Usage, reference, installation, and release note documents for software that runs only on Sun Fire high-end systems. This category includes System Management Services (SMS) software documents.
Sun software documentation that applies to other systems and workstations as well as to Sun Fire high-end systems. This category includes Solaris Operating Environment usage, reference, installation, and release documents, as well as individual man page commands.
Documentation for Sun software products that run on other Sun hardware platforms but require additional information and instructions when running on Sun Fire high-end systems. This category includes Sun Management Center software documents.
In addition, some hardware and service documents are shipped with the Sun Fire high-end system hardware. One of these, the Sun Fire 15K/12K System Site Planning Guide, contains a preinstallation checklist that includes a necessary step for allocating a range of Internet Protocol (IP) addresses to be used by Management Network software.
See Chapter 3 for information about key differences between Sun Fire high-end systems software and Sun Enterprise 10000 system software, including descriptions of the documentation that describes the new functionality.
Sun Fire high-end systems are used in mission-critical data centers. The intended audience for the Sun Fire high-end system software documentation set is experienced system administrators who configure and maintain these high-end systems.
Sun Fire high-end system administrators should be able to qualify as Sun-Certified System Administrators for the Solaris Operating Environment and as Sun-Certified Network Administrators for the Solaris Operating Environment. This certification, available from Sun Microsystems, is for system administrators tasked with performing essential system administration procedures on the Solaris Operating Environment, and for technical application support staff responsible for administering a networked system running the Solaris Operating Environment.
Sun Microsystems publishes guidelines to help you understand the certification process. The guidelines contain the following information needed to learn how to prepare and register for Solaris Operating Environment certification examinations:
For these guidelines and more information about the certification process, click the Certification link on this web page:
Certification often accompanies coursework, and Sun Fire high-end system administrators should be familiar with the contents of the standard Sun Educational Services courses in Solaris Operating Environment administration and network administration, especially:
The Solaris Operating System Administrator I course, which provides information about the essential tasks of standalone installation, file system management, backup procedures, process control, user administration, and device management.
The Solaris Operating System Administrator II course, which provides students with the skills necessary to administer Sun systems running Solaris software in a network environment. Students are taught how to maintain Sun systems, configure and troubleshoot NFS, and configure the Network Information Service (NIS) environment.
The Solaris Operating System TCP/IP Network Administration course, which teaches students the advanced administration skills required to plan, create, administer, and troubleshoot a local area network (LAN). This course provides hands-on experience with network planning, configuration, and troubleshooting, as well as Internet Protocol (IP) routing, Domain Name Service (DNS), Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP), and IP version 6 (IPv6).
For more information about these courses and their contents, look for Solaris Operating Environment courses at this Web site:
Because some system administration procedures are delegated to operators who may be less familiar with the Solaris Operating Environment and with Sun Fire high-end systems, step-by-step procedures such as installation and configuration are written more simply, with a single step for each action the operator must take, and ample examples of the messages the operator will see after these steps.
The Sun Fire high-end system software documentation includes user guides, reference manuals (including individual man pages that can be viewed separately using the man command), installation guides, release notes, and README files. With the exception of individual man pages and README files, these documents are available in Adobe® Acrobat PDF files on product CD-ROMs for all software releases.
For production software releases, these software documents are also available on the Sun Microsystems Web site. You can navigate to them by clicking the High-End Servers link at this Web site:
http://www.sun.com/products-n-solutions/hardware/docs/Servers/
Read the Solaris Operating Environment installation documents and release notes included in your Solaris Operating Environment media kit if you are installing or upgrading the Solaris Operating Environment on any Sun Fire high-end system domains.
Read the System Management Services Administrator Guide for platform administration information.
Read the System Management Services Reference Manual, and the individual SMS man pages it contains, for information about individual SMS command usage and syntax.
Read the System Management Services Installation Guide if you are upgrading or reinstalling SMS software on a main or spare system controller.
Read the System Management Services Dynamic Reconfiguration User Guide to understand how to perform DR operations from the system controller as a platform administrator.
Read the Sun Fire 15K/12K Dynamic Reconfiguration User's Guide and the cfgadm(1M) and dr(7) man pages to understand the usage and syntax of DR operations performed while logged on to an individual domain.
Read the Sun Management Center Supplement for Sun Fire 15K/12K Systems for information about performing DR and other system management operations in the Sun Management Center environment.
Read the Sun Management Center Software User's Guide and Sun Management Center Supplement for Sun Fire 15K/12K Systems for information about using Sun Management Center on Sun Fire high-end systems.
Read the Sun Management Center Software Installation Guide, Sun Management Center Supplement for Sun Fire 15K/12K Systems, and Sun Management Center Software Release Notes for information about installing, upgrading, or configuring Sun Management Center software on Sun Fire high-end systems.
Read the Sun Management Center Supplement for Sun Fire 15K/12K Systems for information about performing DR and other system management operations in the Sun Management Center environment.
For more information about Sun Management Center and the other platforms it supports, or to download the software or the documentation, refer to the Sun Management Center Web site at:
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