Preface - Sun Oracle Netra T5440 Administration Manual

Preface

The Sun Netra T5440 Server Administration Guide is for experienced system
administrators. The guide includes general descriptive information about the Sun
Netra T5440 server from Oracle®, and detailed instructions for configuring and
administering the server. To use the information in this document, you must have
working knowledge of computer network concepts and terms, and advanced
familiarity with Oracle Solaris Operating System.
Note – For information about changing the hardware configuration of your server,
or about running diagnostics, see the Sun Netra T5440 Server Service Manual.
How This Document Is Organized
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
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system controller environmental monitoring, Automatic System Recovery (ASR),
and multipathing software. In addition, the chapter 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 onboard
serial attached SCSI (SAS) disk controller.
Chapter 4 describes Logical Domain software.
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Appendix A describes how to configure and use the watchdog timer on the
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server.
Appendix B provides an example program that illustrates how to get or set the
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status of the alarms.
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