Administrative Tasks
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Preface
Purpose of
This Book
This book describes the management tasks used to operate
Vol Se rv .
Who Should
Read This
Book
This book is written for the system administrator who is
operating and troubleshooting VolServ.
It assumes the administrator has a strong familiarity with:
• UNIX operating systems
• Applications running in their site environment
How This
Book is
Organized
This book contains the following chapters:
Chapter 1: Getting Started — Introduces the document and it’s
conventions. Also contains general software installation information.
Chapter 2: Start-up and Shutdown — A discussion of VolServ
system operation pertaining to equipment and software start-up and
shutdown.
Chapter 3: Initial configuration — A discussion of VolServ
system operations pertaining to initial software and site-dependant
parameter definition.
Chapter 4: Normal Operations — A discussion of normal
VolServ system operations including environment management,
archive management, drive management, media management,
system queries, and database maintenance.
Chapter 5: Archive Operations — A discussion of the VolServ
Archive Operator and applicable capabilities.