Preface - Sun Microsystems SPARC Enterprise T1000 Administration Manual

Preface

The Sun SPARC Enterprise™ T1000 Server Administration Guide is written for
experienced system administrators. It includes general descriptive information about
the server and detailed instructions for configuring and administering the server. To
use the information in this manual, you must have working knowledge of computer
network concepts and terms, and advanced familiarity with the Solaris™ Operating
System (Solaris OS).
How This Book Is Organized
The Sun SPARC Enterprise T1000 Server Administration Guide is divided into the
following chapters:
Chapter 1 describes the system console and how to access it.
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Chapter 2 describes the tools used to configure system firmware, including Sun
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Advanced Lights Out Manager (ALOM) CMT system controller environmental
monitoring, automatic system recovery (ASR), and multipathing software. In
addition, it describes how to unconfigure and reconfigure a device manually.
Chapter 3 describes redundant array of independent disks (RAID) concepts, and
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how to configure and manage RAID disk volumes using your server's on-board
serial attached SCSI (SAS) disk controller.
This manual also includes the following appendix:
Appendix A provides a list of all OpenBoot
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description of each.
TM configuration variables, and a short
TM
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