Contents

Preface

Before You Read This Book

How This Book Is Organized

Using UNIX Commands

Typographic Conventions

Shell Prompts

Related Documentation

Accessing Sun Documentation Online

Ordering Sun Documentation

Sun Welcomes Your Comments

1. Connecting Sun Ray Clients to the Sun Ray Server

Sun Ray System Computing Model

Switch Technical Requirements

Constraints

Auto-Negotiation

Turn-On Time

Bandwidth Limitation and Packet Loss

Switching Scenarios

Stringing Switches Together

Using Additional Network Interface Cards

Replacing Hubs With Switches

2. VLANs and the Sun Ray

Introduction

What is a VLAN?

Implementing Sun Ray Appliances on VLANs

Recommendations for VLAN Implementations

Using the utcapture Tool

Description

Usage

Starting the utcapture Application

3. Monitoring the Sun Ray System

Sun Management Center Software Features

Software Requirements

Installing the Software

To Install the Sun Ray Server Software After Installing the Sun Management Center Software

To Install Sun Management Center Software After Installing Sun Ray Server Software

To Install the Package on Separate Servers

Additional Sun Management Center Modules

Setting Up the Monitoring Environment

To Set Up the Monitoring Environment

To Create an Object

Troubleshooting

Case 1

To Load the Sun Ray Module

Case 2

To Activate the Sun Ray Module

Setting Alarms

To Set an Alarm

To Start Monitoring

Setting Monitoring Guidelines

Sun Ray System Panel

To Display the Sun Ray System Panel

To Refresh the Sun Ray System Panel

To Set Alarms

Sun Ray Services Panel

Failover Group Panel

Interconnect Panel

To Set an Alarm for Running Out of Addresses

Desktops Panel

To Add an Appliance to Be Monitored

To Delete an Appliance to Exclude Monitoring

Using Other Monitoring Programs

Removing the SUNWutesa Package

To Remove the SUNWutesa Package

4. Controlled Access Mode

Controlled Access Mode Functionality

Enabling Controlled Access Mode

To Enable Controlled Access Mode

To Configure CAM Settings

Building the Controlled Access Mode Environment

To Add a New Application

To Edit an Available Application

To Make an Application Available to Users

To Make an Application Not Available to Users

To Remove an Application

Advanced Application Setup

Enabling Prototypes

To Enable Prototypes

Using Wrapper Scripts to Customize Controlled Access Mode Applications

To Launch an Application Using a Wrapper Script

Security and the Controlled Access Mode Environment

Failover

Localization

To Change the Locale for the Controlled Access Mode Sessions Without Changing the System Locale

5. Multihead Feature on Sun Ray Appliances

Multihead Groups

Multihead Screen Display

Display Resolution

Multihead Administration Tool

To Turn On Multihead Policy From the Command Line

To Turn On Multihead Policy Using the Administration Tool

To Create a New Multihead Group

XINERAMA

Session Groups

Authentication Manager

6. Failover

Failover Group Overview

Setting Up IP Addressing

Setting Up Server and Client Addresses

Server Addresses

Configuring DHCP

Coexistence of the Sun Ray Server With Other DHCP Servers

Administering Other Clients

To Set Up IP Addressing on Multiple Servers Each With One Sun Ray Interface

Group Manager

Redirection

utselect

To Redirect to a Different Server

utswitch

To Manually Redirect an Appliance

To List Available Hosts

To Select a Different Server

Group Manager Configuration

To Restart the Authentication Manager

Load Balancing

To Turn Off the Load Balancing Feature

Setting Up a Failover Group

Primary Server

To Specify a Primary Server

Secondary Server

To Specify Each Secondary Server

Removing Replication Configuration

To Remove the Replication Configuration

Viewing the Administration Status

To Show Current Administration Configuration

Recovery Issues and Procedures

Primary Server Recovery

To Rebuild the Primary Server Administration Data Store

To Replace the Primary Server with a Secondary Server

To Replace a Primary Server

Secondary Server Recovery

Setting Up a Group Signature

To Change the Group Manager Signature File

Taking Servers Offline

To Take a Server Offline

To Bring a Server Online

To Install the Controlled Browser

To Remove the Controlled Browser

To Setup the Controlled Browser in Control Access Mode Administration

To Print from the Browser

To Configure the Printer Location

To Add Macromedia Flash Player Plug-in

To Add Adobe Acrobat Reader Plug-in and Application

To Add RealPlayer Plug-in and Application

Glossary