Understanding system administration includes:
Describes basic administration concepts and tasks; includes information on planning your system.
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. This topic also introduces the new SCO Webtop system administration facility.
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.
Lists and describes the default system administration files in /etc/default.
Lists and describes many of the standard system files found in root (/), /etc, /usr, /sbin, and /var.
Starting and stopping the system includes:
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.
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:
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.
Describes the tools available for monitoring and evaluating system performance.
Defines light-weight processes (LWP) and provides information about using the scheduler.
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.
Describes tunable system parameters and provides minimum, maximum and default values for each tunable.
Enhanced Event Logging System includes:
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.
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:
Explains how to use the International Settings Manager to set system locales, select codesets, and otherwise customize the environment for other languages and locales.
Shows how to configure serial-line devices (printers and terminals) to support different locales.
Describes how to input kanji and kana characters in UnixWare 7 using the sjxm facility.
Troubleshooting your system includes:
Covers most general system failures and steps you can take to remedy (and avoid) them.
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.
The topic list in the left frame might also display a link to documentation on the UnixWare 7 Webtop, a web-based interface that allows users to access their UnixWare 7 system remotely. This link only appears after the Webtop is installed. If you would like to install the Webtop or learn more about it, see the UnixWare 7 Webtop Release Notes (located in /info/webtop/relnotes on the Updates CD-ROM).