About This Guide

This guide provides basic information about configuring and administering the SGI® InfiniteStorage™ Gateway product.

Related Publications

The following SGI publications contain additional information:

  • DMF 6 Administrator Guide for SGI InfiniteStorage

  • OpenVault Administrator Guide for SGI InfiniteStorage

  • SGI COPAN 400 User Guide

  • SGI COPAN 400T/TX System Administration Guide

  • SGI InfiniteStorage Gateway Quick Start

  • SGI Management Center for InfiniteStorage Administrator Guide

  • SGI Modular InfiniteStorage (MIS) Platform Installation Guide

  • SGI Modular InfiniteStorage (MIS) 1.5 Platform User Guide

  • XFS for Linux Administration

  • XVM Volume Manager Administrator Guide

For detailed information about the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) operating system, see the following website:

https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/docs/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/

For more information about the LiveArc digital asset management features, see the online help and the following Mediaflux™ documentation:

  • Mediaflux Release Notes

  • Mediaflux Administration Guide

  • Mediaflux Command User and Developer Guide

For more information about PSM, see the Platform Service Manager Online Help available from the PSM Help menu.

Obtaining Publications

You can obtain SGI documentation as follows:

  • See the SGI Technical Publications Library at http://docs.sgi.com. Various formats are available. This library contains the most recent and most comprehensive set of online books, release notes, man pages, and other information.

  • You can view release notes by accessing the README_TITLE.txt file for a given product. The release notes and manuals for some software components will be installed on the SGI Modular InfiniteStorage (MIS) server beneath the following directories:

    /usr/share/doc/packages/sgi-issp-VERSION
    /usr/share/doc/packages/sgi-gateway-VERSION

    The Mediaflux™ documents that support LiveArc are installed beneath the following directory:

    /opt/livearc/docs

  • You can view man pages by typing man title at a command line.

Conventions

The following conventions are used throughout this document:

Convention 

Meaning

command 

This fixed-space font denotes literal items such as commands, files, routines, path names, signals, messages, and programming language structures.

variable 

Italic typeface denotes variable entries and words or concepts being defined.

user input 

This bold, fixed-space font denotes literal items that the user enters in interactive sessions. (Output is shown in nonbold, fixed-space font.)

[ ] 

Brackets enclose optional portions of a command or directive line.

... 

Ellipses indicate that a preceding element can be repeated.

manpage(x) 

Man page section identifiers appear in parentheses after man page names.

GUI 

This font denotes the names of graphical user interface (GUI) elements such as windows, screens, dialog boxes, menus, toolbars, icons, buttons, boxes, fields, and lists.

mis# 

In an example, this prompt indicates that the command is executed on the MIS server

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