Sun Microsystems Sun Fire X4200 - Manual (Page 18)

1-2 Sun Fire X4100 and Sun Fire X4200 Servers System Management Guide • December 2005
1.1.2 Sun N1 System Manager
The Sun N1 System Manager is available to download from www.sun.com or you
can install it from the Sun N1 System Manager DVD. This software suite is installed
on a dedicated server in your data center and allows one or more remote
management clients to perform the following tasks on multiple managed servers:
■ Manage multiple servers – Configure, provision, deploy, manage, monitor, patch,
and update from one to thousands of Sun Fire X4100 or Sun Fire X4200 servers.
■ Monitor system information – System manufacturer, make, model, serial number,
management MAC addresses, disk information, expansion slot information, and
platform CPU and memory information.
■ Manage power remotely – Power off, power on, power reset, and power status.
■ Manage service processors and BIOS – Information about system service
processor firmware, version, and status. You can also perform remote upgrades to
firmware on system service processors.
■ Manage system boot commands and options – Remote boot control via IPMI and
remote mapping of boot devices and boot options.
■ Manage remote system health checks – Information about the status of a server.
■ Manage operating systems – Deploy, monitor, and patch both Solaris and Linux
operating systems.
■ Perform bare-metal discovery.
To learn more about this suite of powerful data center management tools, see
http://www.sun.com/software/products/system_manager/ .
1.1.3 Integrated Lights Out Manager (ILOM) Interfaces
The Integrated Lights Out Manager (ILOM) product that ships with your server
consists of service processor hardware and integrated system management software.
You do not need to install additional hardware or software to begin managing your
server with ILOM.
ILOM offers four industry-standard management interfaces:
■ Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) v2.0 – Using a Secure Shell
(SSH), you can interact with the ILOM Service Processor to do the following:
establish secure remote control of your server, monitor the status of hardware
components remotely, monitor system logs, receive reports from replaceable
components, and redirect the service processor console.
■ Web user interface – The ILOM Service Processor also provides a powerful, yet
easy-to-use browser interface. Once you log in to the service processor browser
interface from your local web browser, you can perform IPMI tasks and system
monitoring. ILOM also enables you to redirect your server's graphical console to