Preface
Who Should Read This Book
The HPSS Management Guide is intended as a resource for HPSS administrators. For those performing the initial
configuration for a new HPSS system, Chapter 1 provides a configuration roadmap. For both new systems and those
upgraded from a previous release, Chapter 1 provides a configuration, operational, and performance checklist which
should be consulted before bringing the system into production. The remaining chapters contain the details for
configuring, reconfiguring, monitoring, and managing an HPSS system.
Conventions Used in This Book
Example commands that should be typed at a command line will be proceeded by a percent sign (‘%’) and be
presented in a boldface courier font:
% sample command
Any text preceded by a pound sign (‘#’) should be considered comment lines:
# This is a comment
Angle brackets (‘<>’) denote a required argument for a command:
% sample command <argument>
Square brackets (‘[]’) denote an optional argument for a command:
% sample command [optional argument]
Vertical bars (‘|’) denote different choices within an argument:
% sample command <argument1 | argument2>
A byte is an eight bit data octet. A kilobyte, KB, is 1024 bytes (210 bytes). A megabyte, MB, is 1048576
bytes (220 bytes). A gigabyte, GB, is 1073741824 bytes (230 bytes), a terabyte, TB, is 1099511627776
bytes (240 bytes), and a petabyte, PB, is 1125899906842624 bytes (250 bytes).
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