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

• How to backup and recover database and configuration files

Chapter 2, Discovering, Grouping, and Replacing Servers in the Sun N1 System Manager describes the following:

• The discovery process

• How to add provisionable servers to groups

• How to replace failed servers

Chapter 3, Provisioning Operating Systems, OS Updates, and Firmware Updates describes the following:

• Conceptual and procedural information about how to manage OS installations

• Conceptual and procedural information about performing OS updates

• Conceptual and procedural information about performing firmware updates

Chapter 4, Managing Servers and Server Groups describes the following:

• How to refresh servers and groups

• How to replace servers and groups

• How to rename servers and groups

• How to reboot servers and groups

• How to remove servers and groups

Chapter 5, Monitoring Your Servers describes the following:

• An overview of how monitoring works

• How to support monitoring by ensuring key features are installed

• How to switch on monitoring for servers and groups

• How to set and manage thresholds

• How to view and manage jobs

• How to view, manage and create event notifications

Chapter 6, Troubleshooting describes how to identify and manage the following possible troubleshooting scenarios:

• Possible problems with server discovery

• Possible problems with security

• Possible problems with OS distributions

• OS deployment failures

• Possible problems with OS updates

• Problems with firmware updates

• Problems after restarting services