Who Should Use This Book

This guide is intended for system administrators who are responsible for maintaining the N1 System Manager software and hardware. The system administrators must have extensive knowledge and experience in the following areas:

• The Solaris^TM, Linux, and Microsoft Windows operating systems, and the network administration tools provided by each operating system

• Network equipment and network devices from a variety of vendors such as Sun and Cisco

• DNS, DHCP, IP addressing, subnetworks, VLANs, SNMP, NFS, TFTP, and mail configuration

• Network device interconnections and cabling

• Linux Kickstart^TM installation

• Solaris JumpStart^TM installation

• Microsoft Windows Remote Installation Services (RIS)