How This Book Is Organized

Chapter 1, Managing the N1 System Manager on the Management Server describes the following:

• How to type commands in the N1 System Manager by using the command-line interface and the browser interface

• Session roles and the n1sh script file

• Security and how to add, remove, and manage users and roles

• Performance guidelines and how to increase the management server performance

• How to backup and recover database and configuration files

Chapter 2, Discovering, Grouping, and Replacing Servers in the Sun N1 System Manager describes the discovery process, how to add managed servers to groups, and how to replace failed servers.

Chapter 3, Provisioning Operating Systems, OS Updates, and Firmware Updates provides conceptual and procedural information about how to manage OS installations, OS updates, and firmware updates.

Chapter 4, Managing Servers and Server Groups contains procedures on how to refresh, replace, rename, reboot, and remove managed servers and groups.

Chapter 5, Monitoring Your Servers explains how to monitor servers and groups, and how to set and manage polling intervals and thresholds. This chapter also explains how to view and manage jobs and event logs, and how to create notifications.

Chapter 6, Troubleshooting describes possible troubleshooting scenarios and solutions for threshold breaches, OS distribution issues, OS deployment failures, and OS update issues.