About This Guide - Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE SERVER 11 - ADMINISTRATION Administration Manual

About This Guide

This guide is intended for use by professional network and system administrators during
the operation of SUSE® Linux Enterprise. As such, it is solely concerned with ensuring
that SUSE Linux Enterprise is properly configured and that the required services on
the network are available to allow it to function properly as initially installed. This
guide does not cover the process of ensuring that SUSE Linux Enterprise offers proper
compatibility with your enterprise's application software or that its core functionality
meets those requirements. It assumes that a full requirements audit has been done and
the installation has been requested or that a test installation, for the purpose of such an
audit, has been requested.
This guide contains the following:
Administration
SUSE Linux Enterprise offers a wide range of tools to customize various aspects
of the system. This part introduces a few of them. A breakdown of available device
technologies, high availability configurations, and advanced administration possi-
bilities introduces the system to the administrator.
System
Learn more about the underlying operating system by studying this part. SUSE
Linux Enterprise supports a number of hardware architectures and you can use this
to adapt your own applications to run on SUSE Linux Enterprise. The boot loader
and boot procedure information assists you in understanding how your Linux system
works and how your own custom scripts and applications may blend in with it.
Mobile Computing
Laptops, and the communication between mobile devices like PDAs, or cellular
phones and SUSE Linux Enterprise need some special attention. Take care for
power conservation and for the integration of different devices into a changing
network environment. Also get in touch with the background technologies that
provide the needed functionality.
Services
SUSE Linux Enterprise is designed to be a network operating system. It offers a
wide range of network services, such as DNS, DHCP, Web, proxy, and authentica-
tion services, and integrates well into heterogeneous environments including MS
Windows clients and servers.