Advanced Management for Enterprise Sun Servers and Solaris 10 OS
Now it's easier than ever to install and deploy Sun Management Center to manage the Sun servers in your data centers. In today's competitive environment, enterprise customers across all industries share common business requirements to reduce operating costs, improve service levels and efficiency. Sun Management Center enables IT operators to enhance system availability, increase performance, and simplify management of their Sun servers, Solaris OS, and Linux environments.
Using Sun Management Center, IT administrators can manage enterprise infrastructure from virtually anywhere on the Web. While providing the most comprehensive instrumentation and administrative knowledge for Sun environments, Sun Management Center also provides open interfaces to enable information sharing with other management platforms.
The bottom line—customers can increase control of their servers and drive down the total cost of managing their data centers.
Supports hundreds of servers from centralized Web browser
Manages advanced Solaris 10 features, including Solaris Container and DTrace
Monitors all Sun servers from single console with Sun N1 System Manager integration
Provides in-depth diagnostics for system hardware, OS
Provides photo-quality image of hardware components
Suggests corrective actions using knowledge-based information
Integrates with Sun Cluster to ensure management server availability
Integrates with enterprise management solutions using standards-based protocol
Java API enables clients to access server information
Improves service levels
Comprehensive event and alarm management helps keep systems up and running at optimal levels
High-availability failover increases application services uptime. Assures users that the infrastructure is managed with complete data integrity and minimal downtime
Store and analyze critical system performance and configuration data for fault analysis, system sizing, and capacity planning
Comprehensive online diagnostic testing identifies hardware faults before they can affect system availability and performance
Securemanagement controls for dynamic reconfiguration and domain management
Supports Dynamic Tracing (DTrace) to create custom programs for instrumenting system and providing immediate feedback
Integrates with Sun N1 System Manager via add-on module,Volume System Monitoring, to increase management efficiency
Lowers operating costs
Automates management of complex systems and repetitive tasks to save time and reduce human errors
Provides predictive failure analysis to alert IT of potential problems before they occur
Enterprise-class functionality optimizes management efficiency, such as group operations,command line interface (CLI) utilities,moduleconfiguration propagation, and management
Scalable across the enterprise
Remotely manages hundreds of Sun servers from anywhere on the Web
Supports advanced Solaris 10 features, such as Solaris Containers and DTrace
Integrates with heterogeneous enterprise management frameworks to protect IT investment, including x86/x64
Developer environment enables customization
Creates new modules for application and hardware device monitoring
Client application programming interface (API) allows developers to leverage and integrate with Sun Management Center
GUI-based module builder provides a powerful, easy-to-use interface to develop custom modules
Sun Management Center
Installation wizard and deployment tools
High-availability failover at the server layer
System discovery and group operations
System hardware and OS diagnostics
Event monitoring and notification
Physical views of server hardware components
Advanced systems monitoring
Full kernel reader
Solaris health monitoring
File system monitoring
Hardware diagnostic suite
Volume system monitoring
Proxy monitors rack systems
Periodically "walks" the rack
Monitored attributes on console
Configures alarms based on criteria
Solaris Container Manager
Manages virtualization features
Enables flexible allocation of compute power
Monitoring, graphing, and alarming
Security between containers
Requires Solaris 10 OS
Systems Reliability Manager
Crash dump analyzer
Patch monitoring
File watcher
Script launcher
DTrace support
Service Availability Manager
Continuous Web service monitoring
Synthetic transaction for response monitoring
Remote agents
Performance Reporting Manager
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Graphic reporting on any data
Performance and trend analysis
Automated report generation
System requirements
Software layer disk space: Basic Installation
Server Layer: 800 MB
Agent Layer: 18 MB
Console Layer: 62 MB
Advanced System Monitoring Basic installation plus the following:
Server Layer: 3.3 MB
Agent Layer: 2.02 MB
Console Layer: 0.27 MB
Solaris Container Manager
Server Layer: 300 MB
Agent Layer: 20 MB
Console Layer: 0 MB
Service Availability Manager Basic installation plus the following:
Server Layer: 1.6 MB
Agent Layer: 1 MB
Console Layer: 0.5 MB
System Reliability Manager Basic installation plus the following:
Server Layer: 3 MB
Agent Layer: 1 MB
ConsoleLayer: 0 MB
Performance Reporting Manager Basic installation plus the following:
Server Layer: 5 to 24 GB
Agent Layer: 8 to 80 MB
Console Layer: 3 MB
Hardware platforms
SPARC and x86 platform-based workstations
and servers
Sun Management Center is part of the Solaris Enterprise System. You can down-
load it from http://www.sun.com/software/products/sunmanagementcenter/get.html and use this sophisticated
infrastructure software at no cost. And, once you need assurance and support,
Sun offers licensing and support plans for purchase.
