How This Book Is Organized

• Chapter 1, Sun Management Center Change Manager (Overview) provides an overview of the Change Manager product.

• Chapter 2, Hardware and Software Requirements (Planning) describes the hardware and software requirements for using the Change Manager product.

• Chapter 3, Installing, Configuring, and Accessing the Change Manager Server (Tasks) provides instructions on installing and configuring the Change Manager software on the Change Manager server. This chapter also includes information about upgrading your Change Manager 1.0 server to run Sun Management Center 3.5 server software and other related tasks.

• Chapter 4, Creating a Deployable Solaris Flash Archive (Tasks) describes how to create customizable Solaris Flash archives that can be deployed to managed hosts.

• Chapter 5, Installing Solaris Flash Archives on Managed Hosts (Tasks) describes how to set up the deployment-related files in the repository, add managed hosts, and deploy software.

• Chapter 6, Auditing Software Configurations (Tasks) describes how to set up the audit-related files in the repository, add managed hosts, run audit jobs, and view audit reports.

• Chapter 7, Monitoring Jobs (Tasks) describes how to monitor jobs in the job queue, job log, and transaction log.

• Chapter 8, Maintaining the Change Manager Repository (Tasks) describes how to perform file maintenance tasks on the Change Manager repository. This chapter also describes how to view and modify file and folder properties.

• Chapter 9, Maintaining the Sun Management Center Topology (Tasks) describes how to perform maintenance tasks on the Sun Management Center topology. This chapter also describes how to view and modify managed host and host group properties.

• Chapter 10, Parameters for Shared Profiles and Host Properties (Reference) describes the shared profile properties that must be set to deploy software to managed hosts. The chapter also shows the minimum set of properties that must be specified to successfully deploy software.

• Chapter 11, Audit Tool File Formats (Reference) describes the file formats for the three audit-related files.

• Appendix A, Change Manager Browser Interface Navigation (Reference) describes how to navigate through the Change Manager browser interface.

• Appendix B, Troubleshooting (Reference) lists problems, warning messages, and error messages that you might see when using Change Manager, and provides solutions for these problems.

• Appendix C, Security (Reference) describes the security issues addressed by Change Manager.

• Glossary is a list of terms used in this book and their definitions.