Preface

The Sun Fire B10n Content Load Balancing Blade Version 1.3 Administration Guide provides installation and configuration instructions for the Sun Fire trademark content load balancing blade. These instructions are designed for an experienced system administrator with networking knowledge.

How This Book Is Organized

Chapter 1 describes the product hardware and software and lists hardware and software requirements and features.

Chapter 2 describes how to install the hardware.

Chapter 3 describes the procedures for preparing the blade for load balancing.

Chapter 4 describes the management and control interfaces available through the Sun Fire B10n blade command line interface (CLI). The chapter lists the CLI commands under the various management categories with the appropriate parameters.

Chapter 5 describes how to prepare the system for failover.

Chapter 6 describes how to configure the VLAN parameters.

Chapter 7 describes how to download and install firmware upgrades. The chapter includes the URL for upgrades.

Chapter 8 describes how to configure the Sun Fire B10n blade with the Linux operating system.

Appendix A contains an overview of the diagnostic tools and instructions for using them. There is also a section outlining some common troubleshooting issues.

Appendix B provides a tutorial for configuring the product, including examples.

Appendix D provides an alphabetical listing of all the commands for the Sun Fire B10n blade.

Using UNIX Commands

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

See the following for this information:

Software documentation that you received with your system

Solaris operating environment documentation, which is at
http://docs.sun.com

Typographic Conventions

Typeface ^[1]	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	`%` `suPassword:`
AaBbCc123	Book titles, new words or terms, words to be emphasized. Replace command-line variables with real names or values.	Read Chapter 6 in the User's Guide. These are called class options. 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	Part Number
Installation	Sun Fire B1600 Blade System Chassis Hardware Installation Guide	816-7614-10
Software setup	Sun Fire B1600 Blade System Chassis Software Setup Guide	816-3361-10
Safety and compliance	Sun Fire B1600 Blade System Chassis Safety and Compliance Manual	816-3364-10

Accessing Sun Documentation

You can view, print, or purchase a broad selection of Sun documentation, including localized versions, at:

http://www.sun.com/documentation

Contacting Sun Technical Support

If you have technical questions about this product that are not answered in this document, go to:

http://www.sun.com/service/contacting

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http://www.sun.com/hwdocs/feedback

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