Sun Fire V445 Server Administration Guide - SCN Research
Sun Fire V445 Server Administration Guide - SCN Research
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TABLE 8-14<br />
Feature<br />
<strong>Sun</strong> Management Center Features (Continued)<br />
Description<br />
Operating system<br />
management<br />
Application and<br />
business system<br />
management<br />
Scalability<br />
Monitors and manages operating system parameters including load,<br />
resource usage, disk space, and network statistics.<br />
Provides technology to monitor business applications such as<br />
trading systems, accounting systems, inventory systems, and<br />
real-time control systems.<br />
Provides an open, scalable, and flexible solution to configure and<br />
manage multiple management administrative domains (consisting<br />
of many systems) spanning an enterprise. The software can be<br />
configured and used in a centralized or distributed fashion by<br />
multiple users.<br />
<strong>Sun</strong> Management Center software is geared primarily toward system administrators<br />
who have large data centers to monitor or other installations that have many<br />
computer platforms to monitor. If you administer a more modest installation, you<br />
need to weigh <strong>Sun</strong> Management Center software’s benefits against the requirement<br />
of maintaining a significant database (typically over 700 Mbytes) of system status<br />
information.<br />
The servers being monitored must be up and running if you want to use <strong>Sun</strong><br />
Management Center, since this tool relies on the Solaris OS. For instructions on<br />
using this tool to monitor a <strong>Sun</strong> <strong>Fire</strong> <strong>V445</strong> server, see the Chapter 8.<br />
How <strong>Sun</strong> Management Center Works<br />
<strong>Sun</strong> Management Center consists of three components:<br />
■<br />
■<br />
■<br />
Agent<br />
<strong>Server</strong><br />
Monitor<br />
You install agents on systems to be monitored. The agents collect system status<br />
information from log files, device trees, and platform-specific sources, and report<br />
that data to the server component.<br />
The server component maintains a large database of status information for a wide<br />
range of <strong>Sun</strong> platforms. This database is updated frequently, and includes<br />
information about boards, tapes, power supplies, and disks as well as OS parameters<br />
like load, resource usage, and disk space. You can create alarm thresholds and be<br />
notified when these are exceeded.<br />
Chapter 8 Diagnostics 205
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