About This Manual

This manual describes how to configure and manage network applications and services, and solve network problems that might arise on systems running the Tru64TM UNIX operating system software.

This manual assumes that the operating system software and the appropriate networking subsets are installed.

Audience

This manual is intended for system and network adminstrators responsible for configuring and managing network services. Administrators are expected to have knowledge of operating system concepts, commands, and configuration. It is also helpful to have knowledge of Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) networking concepts and network configuration; this manual is not a TCP/IP networking tutorial.

New and Changed Features

The Network Administration manual has been reorganized into two volumes: Network Administration: Connections and Network Administration: Services.

This volume, Network Administration: Services, contains all of the information regarding network services and applications that previously existed in the Network Administration manual, plus a new section on how to migrate to the AutoFS daemon from the Automount daemon (which is being retired in a future release).

Organization

The Network Administration: Services manual is divided into several chapters, each of which contains information about configuring a different service or application. The manual also includes appendixes that contain supplemental information.

The following list describes the content in more detail:

Chapter 1 Describes network administration and the components that this manual covers.
Chapter 2 Describes the tasks to administer the Domain Name System (DNS)
Chapter 3 Describes the tasks to administer the Network Information Service (NIS)
Chapter 4 Describes the tasks to administer the Network File System (NFS)
Chapter 5 Describes the tasks to administer the UNIX-to-UNIX Copy Program (UUCP)
Chapter 6 Describes the tasks to administer the Network Time Protocol (NTP)
Chapter 7 Describes the tasks to administer the mail environment
Chapter 8 Describes the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
Chapter 9 Describes how to diagnose network and network service problems
Chapter 10 Describes the various diagnostic tools available to help solve problems
Chapter 11 Describes how to test DNS servers and resolve DNS server problems
Chapter 12 Describes how to report problems to Compaq and the information you need to provide
Appendix A Describes how to write Automount and AutoFS maps
Appendix B Contains two scripts you can copy for adding NIS slave servers to and removing NIS slave servers from an NIS domain
Appendix C Contains NFS error messages and describes possible solutions
Appendix D Contains uucp error messages and describes possible solutions
Appendix E Contains sendmail error messages and describes possible solutions
Appendix F Describes the Tru64 UNIX host MIB implementation, including sample data
Appendix G Describes the format of DNS file entries

Related Documents

For more information about Tru64 UNIX networking and communications, see the following books:

Icons on Tru64 UNIX Printed Manuals

The printed version of the Tru64 UNIX documentation uses letter icons on the spines of the manuals to help specific audiences quickly find the manuals that meet their needs. (You can order the printed documentation from Compaq.) The following list describes this convention:

  G Manuals for general users
  S Manuals for system and network administrators
  P Manuals for programmers
  R Manuals for reference page users

Some manuals in the documentation help meet the needs of several audiences. For example, the information in some system manuals is also used by programmers. Keep this in mind when searching for information on specific topics.

The Documentation Overview provides information on all of the manuals in the Tru64 UNIX documentation set.

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Conventions

This document uses the following typographic conventions:

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