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it. This also describes the procedures to access the NMS and manage user accounts.
Chapter 2: “Interface Components”—Describing the interface compo- nents, their use, and navigation.
Chapter 3: “Alarms”—Providing a conceptual overview of NMS alarms, their types and levels, and explaining how to display, trace, and respond to alarms. Use of the alarm history is also discussed.
Chapter 4: “Reports”—Explaining the report options and formats, how to generate and print reports, and customizing the report view for the data needed.
Chapter 5: “Services and Components”—Providing a detailed refer- ence of services, their components, and attributes.
Chapter 6: “Configuration”—Describing procedures for customizing the alarm notification settings, and other elements of system configuration.
Chapter 7: “Troubleshooting Alarms”—Providing a detailed table for administrators to locate the appropriate response to an alarm, and better understand the alarms and attributes.
Chapter 8: “Introduction to Server Manager”—Describing the Server
Manager application used on the console of each server in the grid.
Chapter 9: “Server Manager Operation”—Describing procedures for using the Server Manager to gracefully connect and disconnect grid nodes.
Conventions
This guide adheres to conventions for terminology to avoid confusion or misunderstanding. There are also conventions for typography to enhance readability and usefulness of the text.
Terminology
There is some room for confusion between common computer network terminology for “server” and “node” as they are used in this document.
A server is usually thought of as a piece of computing hardware that provides data services to requesting network clients; a resource pro-
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