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Preface
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(TM) The Using Power Management manual describes how to configure Sun Ultra(TM) (TM) and SPARCstation desktop and nomadic systems to conserve energy.
Who Should Use This Book
- This manual is intended for anyone wanting to use Power Management(TM) software to reduce the power used by a workstation.
How This Book Is Organized
- This manual contains the following chapters and appendixes:
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Chapter 1, "Introduction to Power Management," describes the Power Management features and provides guidelines on choosing to use them on an individual desktop machine.
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Chapter 2, "Using Power Management," describes how to use the dtpower software on sun4m and sun4u desktop systems.
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Chapter 3, "Using Power Management on SPARCstation Voyager Systems,"
- describes how to use the dtpower software on this nomadic system, which has some additional Power Management features not available on other desktop SPARCstations.
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Chapter 4, "Suspend-Resume," describes the features that enable a desktop system to record its current state when powered down, and then to return to that state when powered up again.
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Appendix A, "Configuring Power Management Using the Command Line,"
- describes an alternative way of using Power Management features through the pmconfig command and the power.conf file. This appendix also explains how to change the idleness definition by editing the power.conf file.
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Appendix B, "Troubleshooting," explains how to respond to various problems and error messages related to Power Management software.
Related Books
- The Power Management software is provided on the SMCC Updates CD for the Solaris(TM) release used by your desktop system. Instructions for installing this software are provided in the SMCC SPARC Hardware Platform Guide for this Solaris release.
Typographic Conventions
- The following table describes the typographic changes used in this book.
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Table P-1
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| AaBbCc123 | The names of commands, files, and directories; on-screen computer output | Edit your .login file. Use ls -a to list all files. machine_name% You have mail. |
| AaBbCc123 | What you type, contrasted with on-screen computer output |
machine_name%su
Password:
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| AaBbCc123 | Command-line placeholder: replace with a real name or value | To delete a file, type rm filename. |
| AaBbCc123 | Book titles, new words or terms, or words to be emphasized | Read Chapter 6 in User's Guide. These are called class options. You must be root to do this. |
Shell Prompts in Command Examples
- The following table shows the default system prompt and superuser prompt for the C shell, Bourne shell, and Korn shell.
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Table P-2
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| C shell | machine_name% |
| C shell superuser | machine_name# |
| Bourne shell and Korn shell | $ |
| Bourne shell and Korn shell superuser | # |
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