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Understanding system administration
Administering systems
Understanding the basics
What is system administration?
What to read if you are new
Keeping a system log
The root account and system owner
The keyboard
Running programs simultaneously with multiscreen displays
System security
Administration interfaces
Desktop graphical user interface
The command line (shell) interface
The kernel
Booting the system
System tuning
Managing users and groups
Backing up and restoring files
Configuring hardware
Adding and removing software applications
Educating users
Planning your site
User resource considerations
Network considerations
Hardware considerations
Summary of system administration tasks
Administering your system with SCOadmin
Starting SCOadmin from the command line
Refreshing data in the display
Using point help
Using the toolbar
Customizing the toolbar
Using SCOadmin in character mode
Navigating the character screen
Using character buttons
Administering other systems with SCOadmin
Remote capabilities
Enabling remote manager capabilities
Distributed capabilities
Selecting another host to manage
Managing host groups
Configuring a host group
Performing a host group operation
Reading or writing a host group file
Using the SCOadmin Setup Wizard
Increasing SCOadmin security in a networked environment
Troubleshooting SCOadmin
SCOadmin will not start
Recovering from remote administration problems
Recovering from SCOadmin failures in character mode
SCOadmin error trace
The SCOadmin event log
Understanding the SCOadmin event log
Using the SCOadmin event log
Performing basic system monitoring and tuning
Using the System Information Manager
Using the Login Session Viewer or the who command
Using the System Time Manager
Using the System Monitor
Managing log data
Setting System Monitor alarms
Setting System Monitor options
Customizing System Monitor colors
Setting colors using the sysmonitor file
Setting colors using the .sys_mon file
Using the System Tuner
Using the System Defaults Manager
Checking and clearing system log files
Using the System Logs Manager
Clearing system log files from the command line
Clearing log files automatically
Using the Reports Manager
Reporting password status
Reporting user login activity
Making list selections
Enabling or disabling system accounting
Viewing system accounting reports
Checking file security
Communicating with users
Message of the day
The wall command
Changing the maximum allowed file size (ulimit)
Considerations for large files
Managing swap space
Determining swap usage
Changing swap space size
Adding swap space
Reducing swap space
Managing processors and processes
Licensing multiple processors
Using the Processor Manager
Displaying processor information (psrinfo)
Taking processors on/off-line (psradm)
Binding processes to processors (pbind)
Placing processors in an exclusive binding mode (pexbind)
System default files
/etc/default/audit
/etc/default/bfs
/etc/default/cofont
/etc/default/coterm
/etc/default/coterm-M
/etc/default/cron
/etc/default/dskmgmt
/etc/default/dump
/etc/default/fstyp
/etc/default/init
/etc/default/keyboard
/etc/default/lang
/etc/default/locale
/etc/default/login
/etc/default/lp
/etc/default/mail
/etc/default/man
/etc/default/mapchan
/etc/default/mapping
/etc/default/msdos
/etc/default/passwd
/etc/default/privcmds
/etc/default/s5
/etc/default/scoadmin
/etc/default/scohelp
/etc/default/sfs
/etc/default/sh
/etc/default/shutdown
/etc/default/su
/etc/default/tar
/etc/default/ufs
/etc/default/usemouse
/etc/default/useradd
/etc/default/userdel
/etc/default/usermod
/etc/default/vxfs
/etc/default/workstations
/etc/default/Xim