The Sun MediaCenter Documentation Suite
This manual is a companion to the Sun MediaCenter Server Installation and Configuration Manual, the Sun MediaCenter Server Programmer’s Guide and the Sun MediaCenter UltraSPARC Hardware Manual. Together these manuals are complementary of the hardware manuals shipped with the Sun products that make up a Sun MediaCenter server. These documents include manuals for the server, for the network interface (such as SunFastEthernet™ documentation), and the disk subsystem.
How This Book Is Organized
Chapter 1 “Introduction,” introduces the Sun MediaCenter software at a
Chapter 2 “Preparing and Loading Content,” specifies the Sun MediaCenter server’s requirements for MPEG content.
Chapter 3 “Monitoring the Server,” describes the WebAdmin tool, a
Chapter 4 “Moving Content,” describes the CmTool, a
Chapter 5 “Sun MediaCenter Server Utilities,” describes the use of smc_copy and smc_tar, used for moving content, as well as smc_ls and smc_rm.
Chapter 6 “Sun MediaCenter Server FTP Daemon,” tells you how to use ftp to move content between a client machine and a Sun MediaCenter server.
Chapter 7 “Server Output Data Format,” describes the format of the data output by the Sun MediaCenter server.
Chapter 8 “Administering MFS Disks,” tells you how to monitor disks in the Media File System and how to deal with single and multiple disk failures.
Chapter 9 “Access Control Lists,” describes access control lists that you can create and modify for Sun MediaCenter operations.
Chapter 10 “Troubleshooting,” presents some problems you might encounter in the use of your server, along with possible solutions.
x Sun MediaCenter Server Administrator’s Guide • December 1997
