Preface; How This Book Is Organized - Sun Microsystems Sun Fire V445 Server Administration Manual

Preface

The Sun Fire V445 Server Administration Guide is intended for experienced system
administrators. It includes general descriptive information about the Sun Fire
V445 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 (OS).

How This Book Is Organized

The Sun Fire V445 Server Administration Guide is divided into the following chapters:
Chapter 1 presents an illustrated overview of the system and a description of the
system's reliability, availability, and serviceability (RAS) features, as well as new
features introduced with this server.
Chapter 2 describes the system console and how to access it.
Chapter 3 describes how to power on and power off the system, and how to
initiate a reconfiguration boot.
Chapter 4 describes and illustrates system hardware components. It also includes
configuration information for CPU/Memory modules and DIMMs.
Chapter 5 describes the tools used to configure system firmware, including Sun
Advanced Lights Out Manager (ALOM) system controller environmental
monitoring, automatic system recovery (ASR), hardware watchdog mechanism,
and multipathing software. In addition, it describes how to unconfigure and
reconfigure a device manually.
Chapter 6 describes how to manage internal disk volumes and devices.
Chapter 7 provides instructions for configuring network interfaces.
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