System Management

Understanding system administration includes:

• Administering systems

  Describes basic administration concepts and tasks; includes information on planning your system.

• Administering your system with SCOadmin

  Shows how to use SCOadmin, the primary system administration tool for UnixWare 7. Topics include starting SCOadmin, using help, toolbars, and other interfaces, administering systems remotely, and troubleshooting SCOadmin.

• Performing basic system monitoring and tuning

  Explains how to view the system clock, lists of users logged on, processor information, and other basic information about your system. Also covers system performance, tunable parameters, system logs, and other tuning and monitoring tasks.

• System default files

  Lists and describes the default system administration files in /etc/default.

• System directories and files

  Lists and describes many of the standard system files found in root (/), /etc, /usr, /sbin, and /var.

Starting and stopping the system includes:

• Starting and stopping the system

  Describes the boot process, rebooting the system, stopping your system with the shutdown(1M) command, and other boot processes including installing a new boot kernel and performing an interactive boot session.

• Customizing UNIX system startup

  Explains UnixWare 7 system states, including how to move into single- and multi-user modes. Also includes information on changing system messages and login environments.

Monitoring and tuning the system includes:

• Performing basic system monitoring and tuning

  Explains how to view the system clock, lists of users logged on, processor information, and other basic information about your system. Also covers system performance, tunable parameters, system logs, and other tuning and monitoring tasks.

• Managing system performance

  Describes the tools available for monitoring and evaluating system performance.

• Process scheduling

  Defines light-weight processes (LWP) and provides information about using the scheduler.

• Managing dynamically loadable kernel modules

  Details dynamically loadable kernel modules (DLKM) which can help you conserve system resources, and allow you to make configuration changes without having to reboot your system.

• Tunable parameters

  Describes tunable system parameters and provides minimum, maximum and default values for each tunable.

Enhanced Event Logging System includes:

• The Enhanced Event Logging System

  Introduces the terminology and basic concepts on which the Enhanced Event Logging System (EELS) is based. This introduction covers topics such as, access rights, log sources, creating databases, database table overviews, basic SQL tips and so on.

• Using EELS

  Describes how to use the Enhanced Event Logging System (EELS) to manipulate system and user log files stored in a central RDBMS. EELS includes tools for querying the database, generating reports, assigning access rights, database administration and so on.

Customizing locale settings includes:

• Specifying the locale

  Explains how to use the International Settings Manager to set system locales, select codesets, and otherwise customize the environment for other languages and locales.

• Customizing device character mapping

  Shows how to configure serial-line devices (printers and terminals) to support different locales.

Troubleshooting your system includes:

• Troubleshooting system-level problems

  Covers most general system failures and steps you can take to remedy (and avoid) them.

• Creating and using emergency recovery media

  Explains how to create recovery media and use it to restore a disabled system.

The topic list in the left frame might also display a link to documentation on IBM Network Station Manager, a support environment for the IBM Network Station. This link only appears after NSM is installed. Before NSM is installed, the release notes in /info/ibmnsm/relnotes on the Optional Services CD-ROM provide installation instructions and other important information about NSM.