Preface

The Online CPU Diagnostics Monitor Version 1.1 User's Guide describes how to install, configure, and use the Online CPU Diagnostics Monitor (CDM) software. The primary audience of this manual is advanced system end users.

How This Book Is Organized

This user's guide is organized as follows:

Chapter 1 provides a general overview of the CDM software.

Chapter 2 describes how to install and remove the CDM software.

Chapter 3 describes how to configure and use the CDM software.

Appendix A provides the online manual page for cputst(1M), the online CPU test.

Appendix B provides the online manual page for cpudiagd(1M), the CDM daemon.

Appendix C provides the online manual page for cpudiagd.conf(4), the CDM daemon configuration file.

Appendix D provides the /etc/init.d/cpudiagd startup script.

Using UNIX Commands

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

See one or more of the following for this information:

Solaris Hardware Platform Guide

Online documentation for the Solaris operating environment available at http://docs.sun.com

Other software documentation that you received with your system

Typographic Conventions

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

Typeface

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

Command-line variable; replace with a real name or value

Read Chapter 6 in the User's Guide.

These are called class options.

You must be superuser to do this.

To delete a file, type rm filename.

Shell Prompts

Shell	Prompt
C shell	machine_name`%`
C shell superuser	machine_name`#`
Bourne shell and Korn shell	`$`
Bourne shell and Korn shell superuser	`#`

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