Personal System Administration Guide

Personal System Administration Guide Document Number 007-1366-190 CONTRIBUTORS Written by Amy Smith Updated by Douglas B. O’Morain, Laura Wirth Peters, Julie Boney, and Steven Levine Production by Karen Jacobson Engineering contributions by Betsy Zeller, Roger Chickering, Joe Ruffles, Chris Beekhuis, Jenny Leung, Chandra Pisupati, Ray Niblett, John Relph, Will Rusch, amd Rebecca Underwood. COPYRIGHT © 2000, 2003 Silicon Graphics, Inc. All rights reserved; provided portions may be copyright in third parties, as indicated elsewhere herein. No permission is granted to copy, distribute, or create derivative works from the contents of this electronic documentation in any manner, in whole or in part, without the prior written permission of Silicon Graphics, Inc. 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New Features in This Guide This update of the Personal System Administrator’s Guide supports the 6.5.22 release of IRIX. Documentation Changes Documentation changes include small updates to the installation procedure description. 007-1366-190 iii Record of Revision Version Description 160 January 2001 This manual describes system administrator responsibilities for SGI workstations. 170 January 2003 This update supports the IRIX 6.5.19 release. 180 June 2003 This update supports the IRIX 6.5.21 release. 190 October 2003 This update supports the IRIX 6.5.22 release. 007-1366-190 v Contents New Features in This Guide....................iii Record of Revision ......................v About This Guide.......................xix ObtainingPublications.....................xix ConventionsUsedinThisGuide..................xx ReaderComments.......................xx 1. Overview of System Administration .................1 ChoosinganAdministrator....................1 AboutUserPrivileges....................2 The System Administrator’s Responsibilities . 3 TheNetworkAdministrator’sRole.................4 PerformingSystemAdministrationTasks................5 OverviewoftheSystemManager.................5 UsingtheSystemManager’sInteractiveGuides............5 OverviewoftheCategories..................6 AbouttheManagers....................7 SearchingintheSystemManager................8 CheckingtheHardwareConfiguration...............8 CheckingDiskInformation..................8 CheckingRemovableMediaDeviceInformation...........8 AboutSCSIDevices,Controllers,andAddresses...........8 UsingtheShellWindow....................9 SettingtheTimeandDate..................10 SettingUpYourSystem.....................11 PerformingOtherAdministrationTasks...............12 007-1366-190 vii Contents LoggingIntoandOutofYourSystem.................13 LoggingIntoYourSystem...................14 LoggingOutoftheSystem...................14 ShuttingDownorRestartingtheSystem................14 ShuttingDowntheSystem...................14 RestartingtheSystem.....................15 2. Software..........................17 Installing and Removing Software . 17 SoftwareManager.......................18 ViewingInstalledorAvailableProducts................18 ChangingYourViewofInstalledandAvailableSoftware..........19 UnderstandingtheSoftwareInventoryList..............20 TheRemoveColumn....................20 TheInstallColumn....................21 TheProductColumn....................21 TheStatusColumn....................21 TheSizeColumn.....................22 TheTypeColumn.....................22 KeyboardShortcutsintheSoftwareInventoryList...........23 ViewingRequiredandOptionalSoftware...............23 FindingSpecificSoftware....................24 Finding Strings Within Products, Subsystems, and Files. 24 FindingandMarkingProductsandSubsystems............25 viii 007-1366-190 Contents Installing a Product . 26 Installing an Operating System Upgrade . 27 Choosing, Determining, and Switching Release Streams . 29 Choosing Release Streams ..................29 DeterminingYourCurrentReleaseStream.............30 SwitchingReleaseStreams..................30 SpecifyingtheLocationofAvailableSoftware.............31 AboutDefaultandCustomInstallations...............32 PerformingaDefaultInstallation.................33 PerformingaCustomInstallation.................35 CheckingAvailableDiskSpace..................39 UnderstandingtheDiskSpacePieChart..............39 ViewingSpaceonOtherDisksorDiskDirectories...........40 About Product Structure: Products, Subsystems, and Files . 40 CheckingConfigurationFiles..................41 RemovingaProduct......................42 Removing and Installing Software at the Same Time. 44 SoftwareManagerReference..................44 TheFileMenu.....................45 ButtonEquivalentstoChoicesintheFileMenu............46 TheInstallMenu.....................46 TheSelectedMenu....................47 TheSoftwareMenu....................48 ThePanesMenu.....................49 TheHelpMenu.....................49 AdvancedTopics.......................50 SettingSoftwareManagerPreferences................50 SavingandLoadingaCustomSelectionofSoftware............52 SettingUpaDistributionDirectory.................52 UsingInstCommandsintheCommandPane..............53 UnderstandingandMergingConfigurationFiles.............54 Adding,Removing,andUpdatingLicenses...............56 007-1366-190 ix Contents LicenseManager.......................56 ObtainingaLicense.....................57 ObtainingInformationAboutaLicense...............57 LicenseManagerReference...................58 InstallaLicense........................58 RemoveaLicense.......................59 UpdateaLicense.......................59 3. Hardware and Devices .....................61 Adding,Removing,andSharingPrinters................61 PrinterManager.......................61 HowTo.........................62 SettingUpaSerialPrinter..................63 SettingUpaParallelPrinter..................64 SettingUpaSCSIPrinter..................65 Accessing a Printer Connected to a Remote Workstation . 66 AccessingaPrinterDirectlyConnectedtotheNetwork..........68 ChangingtheSetupofaPrinter.................69 DeletingaPrinter.....................70 Canceling or Moving Print Jobs to a Different Printer . 71 DesignatingaDefaultPrinter.................71 SettingPrinter-SpecificOptions.................71 CheckingaPrinter’sQueue..................72 PrintingaTestPageFromPrinterManager.............72 SettingUplpr......................73 PrinterManagerReference...................73 StartSharingPrinters......................74 StopSharingPrinters......................74 AccessingaMacintoshorPCPrinterAcrosstheNetwork...........74 UnmountaMacintoshorPCPrinter..................75 AddingandRemovingPeripheralDevices................75 SerialDeviceManager......................76 SerialDeviceManagerReference.................76 x 007-1366-190 Contents AddaModem........................78 SettingUpaModem.....................78 TestingaDial-OutorDial-In/Dial-OutConnection............79 RemoveaModem.......................81 AddaSerialDevice......................81 RemoveaSerialDevice.....................82 SettingUpSCSIPeripherals....................82 Allowing Remote Users to Install Software From Your CD Drive . 85 SettingUpParallelPeripherals...................86 ManagingDiskDrives.....................86 DiskManager........................86 DiskManagerReference....................87 InitializeaDisk.......................88 SettingUpaNewHardDisk..................89 Verifying and Initializing Filesystems on a Hard Disk . 89 CreatingLogicalVolumes...................90 VerifyaDisk........................90 RemoveaDiskFromtheSystem...................90 CreateaStripedLogicalVolume...................91 CreateanExtendableLogicalVolume.................91 ExtendaLogicalVolume.....................92 RemoveaLogicalVolume....................92

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