Sun Microsystems SPARC T5220 - Manual (Page 28)

26 Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120 and T5220 Server Architecture Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Sun Management Center Software
Sun Management Center software is an element management system for monitoring
and managing the Sun environment. Sun Management Center software integrates with
the leading enterprise management systems to provide customers with a unified
management infrastructure. The base package is free and provides hardware
monitoring. Advanced applications (add-ons) extend the monitoring capability of the
base package. Sun Management Center software provides:
• Agents for managing Solaris OS (SPARC and x64/x86 platforms) and Linux operating
systems
• In-depth hardware and software diagnostics
• Aggregate CPU utilization reporting
• Event and alarm management for thousands of attributes
• Corrective action automation through scripts triggered by alarm thresholds
• Secure management controls for remote dynamic reconfiguration
• The ability to customize modules with a powerful, easy-to-use GUI
Sun N1
™
System Manager
The Sun N1
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System Manager is infrastructure lifecycle management software for
deploying, monitoring, patching, and managing large and small installations of Sun
systems. Sun N1 System Manager takes a step-by-step approach to unraveling the
challenges of getting systems operational quickly:
• Discover
As systems are added to the management network, administrators can use Sun N1
System Manager to discover bare metal systems based on a given subnet address
or IP range.
• Group
Given the number of systems to manage and the constant re-purposing of
systems, it is critical for IT organizations to find ways to group resources together.
Sun N1 System Manager enables users to logically group systems together and
perform actions across a group of systems as easily as performing actions on a
single system. Systems can be grouped by function (Web servers versus grid
computing), administrative responsibility, or other categorization based on
organizational needs.
• Provision
Sun N1 System Manager remotely installs operating systems (Solaris OS, RedHat,
or SuSE Linux) onto selected systems. Administrators can use this functionality to
provision operating systems onto bare metal systems or reprovision existing
systems. As the infrastructure life cycle continues, Sun N1 System Manager can
update firmware and provision software packages and patches to selected
systems.