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## About This Guide

## Help Overview

The Personal System Administration Guide describes the responsibilities of the system administrator for your Silicon Graphics workstation, and provides details on the various tools and utilities available for system administration.

Most system administration tasks can be accomplished by using the System Manager, available in the desktop toolchest by choosing System > System Manager. For a complete discussion of the System Manager, see “Overview of the System Manager” in Chapter 1. The organization of this guide matches the organization of the System Manager tool. Click on a link below for more information on that topic:

- Chapter 1, “Overview of System Administration”

- Chapter 2, “Software”

- Chapter 3, “Hardware and Devices”

- Chapter 4, “Security and Access Control”

- Chapter 5, “Network and Connectivity”

- Chapter 6, “Files and Data”

- Chapter 7, “System Performance”

- Chapter 8, “Troubleshooting”

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- Italics—Filenames, button names, variables, emphasis, glossary terms, and IRIX commands.

- Regular—Menu and window names, data types, keywords, and text.

- `Fixed-width`—Code examples and command syntax.

- Bold fixed-width—User input.

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