Preface

This book describes how you use the dynamic reconfiguration (DR) feature by entering commands in the system management services (SMS) software. DR enables you to attach system boards to, and detach them from, active Sun Fire trademark high-end system domains while the Solaris operating environment continues to run.

Before You Read This Book

This book is intended for the Sun Fire high-end system platform administrator who has a working knowledge of UNIX® systems, particularly those based on the Solaris operating environment. If you do not have such knowledge, first read the Solaris user and system administrator books provided with this system, and consider UNIX system administration training.

How This Book Is Organized

This book contains the following chapters:

Chapter 1 "Introduction to DR in System Management Services"

Chapter 2 "SMS DR Procedures"

Chapter 3 "SMS DR User Interfaces"

Using UNIX Commands

This document does not contain complete 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:

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

Application	Title
DR User Guide	Sun Fire 15K/12K Dynamic Reconfiguration User Guide
Platform-specific release notes	Solaris 8 or 9 Release Notes Supplement for Sun Hardware
SMS Administrator Guide	System Management Services (SMS) 1.4 Administrator Guide
SMS Release Notes	System Management Services (SMS) 1.4 Release Notes
DR Webpage	http://www.sun.com/servers/highend/dr_sunfire

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