HP SVA V2.1 System Administration Guide

About This Document
This document describes system administration tasks that are specific to the SVA.
1 Intended Audience
Primary: System administrators; secondary: application developers.
2 Document Organization
This document is organized as follows:
Chapter 1 (page 13) Use this chapter to learn about the data configuration files,
including how to change their contents.
Chapter 2 (page 27) This chapter describes how to set up display devices to work with
SVA.
Chapter 3 (page 51) This chapter describes additional tasks system administrators
commonly do on the Scalable Visualization Array (SVA).
Reference Section I
Use this Reference Section to learn about the svaverify and
sva_ovp command syntax for verifying the Site Configuration
File and the cluster installation and setup.
3 Typographic Conventions
This document uses the following typographical conventions:
%, $, or #
A percent sign represents the C shell system prompt. A dollar
sign represents the system prompt for the Bourne, Korn, and
POSIX shells. A number sign represents the superuser prompt.
audit(5) A manpage. The manpage name is audit, and it is located in
section 5.
Command
A command name or qualified command phrase.
Computer output
Text displayed by the computer.
Ctrl+x A key sequence. A sequence such as Ctrl+x indicates that you
must hold down the key labeled Ctrl while you press another
key or mouse button.
ENVIRONMENT VARIABLE The name of an environment variable, for example, PATH.
[ERROR NAME]
The name of an error, usually returned in the errno variable.
Key The name of a keyboard key. Return and Enter both refer to the
same key.
Term The defined use of an important word or phrase.
User input
Commands and other text that you type.
Variable
The name of a placeholder in a command, function, or other
syntax display that you replace with an actual value.
[] The contents are optional in syntax. If the contents are a list
separated by a pipe ( | ), you must choose one of the items.
{} The contents are required in syntax. If the contents are a list
separated by a pipe ( | ), you must choose one of the items.
... The preceding element can be repeated an arbitrary number of
times.
Indicates the continuation of a code example.
| Separates items in a list of choices.