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## About This Guide

This guide is a reference document for people who manage the operation of SGI® UV™ 100, SGI® UV™ 1000 or SGI® UV™ 2000 systems. It explains how to perform general system configuration and operations under the Linux operating system used with SGI UV 100, SGI UV 1000, and SGI UV 2000 systems.

This manual applies to SGI UV 100, SGI UV 1000, and SGI UV 2000 systems. For the SGI UV 10 system, see the SGI Altix UV 10 System User's Guide. For SGI 4000 series systems, see the Linux Configuration and Operations Guide. For more information on SGI® ICE™ 8200 and SGI® ICE™ 8400 systems, see the SGI Management Center for ICE, and their respective hardware guides. For SGI® ICE X™ systems, see the SGI Management Center for ICE X and the SGI ICE X System Hardware User Guide.

SGI Management Center (SMC) software running on the system management node (SMN) provides a robust graphical interface for system configuration, operation, and monitoring. For more information on the SMC, see SGI Management Center System Administrator Guide.

This manual contains the following chapters:

- Chapter 1, “Configuring Your System”

- Chapter 2, “System Operation”

## Related Publications

For a list of manuals that support the SGI Linux releases and SGI online resources, see the SGI Performance Suite 1.5 Start Here.

## Obtaining Publications

You can obtain SGI documentation in the following ways:

- 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 man pages by typing man title on 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.

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