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x Sun MediaCenter Server Administrator’s Guide • December 1997
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 high-level.
Chapter 2 “Preparing and Loading Content,” specifies the Sun MediaCenter
server’s requirements for MPEG content. Trick-play format is defined here.
Chapter 3 “Monitoring the Server,” describes the WebAdmin tool, a Web-based
interface for monitoring a Sun MediaCenter server.
Chapter 4 “Moving Content,” describes the CmTool, a Web-based interface for
transferring content to a Sun MediaCenter server.
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.