Sun Management Center - Solaris Container Manager

Features & Benefits

Solaris Container Manager 1.1
 
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Features
Feature
Function
Benefit
Container Management
Allows the creation, deletion, and modification of Containers on specified hosts, thereby enabling the administrator to set the characteristics (name, resource allocation) of the Container.
Gives the administrator easy control of how much system resources are allocated to individual applications.
Global Container Management
GUI provides an overview of all current managed Containers, illustrating how Containers are set up on specific systems and resources still available for other Containers.
Gives administrator a single point of administration, providing a better overview of managed environment and decreasing the chance for errors.
Host and Container View
Offers administrators the choice of organizing Containers from either a hosts or functional point of view.
Aids the user in zooming in on a Container both when the location is known or when the function is known.
Alarm Management
Enables system administrators to set alarms of varying severity, for every managed Container and notify administrators via email or pager as alarm thresholds are exceeded.
Allows administrators to practively manage resource contention problems.
Container Replication
Deploys the same Container definition across multiple systems from a central point.
Allows centralized management of horizontally deployed applications and enables administrators to quickly deploy more Containers if needed.
Container and Process Monitoring
Allows users to zoom into a Container and identify the running processes and how much resources each process is consuming.
Aids in overall health monitoring and identifying whether the right applications are running in the right Container.
Scheduling Change Jobs
Allows administrators to schedule changes to resources allocated to a Container, recurring either on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis.
Provides administrators with the flexibility to proactively schedule change jobs.
Usage Graphs
Creates resource usage charts, with multiple usage lines plotted on same graph, to help administrators understand how applications or systems are consuming resources.
Provides insight into resource usage trends and how well the systems are running.

The multiple lines per graph allows administrators to quickly identify where resources are being consumed.
Export of Usage Data
Allows the export of collected data to 3rd party applications.
Provides an easy way for administrators to incorporate usage data into 3rd party applications such as accounting data.
Discovery of System Setting
Automatically discovers current system setting loads settings into the database.
Current resource management or Container customers can easily transition their current investment into this management framework.
Bandwidth management on a Solaris Zones with IPQoS
Allows administrators to control the network bandwidth of the traffic going to and from a zone on the system.
Helps administrators control the impact of a network intensive application that is sharing a network interface with others.

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