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Sun N1 System Manager
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In today's rapidly growing and constantly changing data centers, customers are deploying large numbers of horizontally scalable systems to scale out their computing environments and take advantage of technology innovation. Sun Fire x64 and SPARC servers deliver the flexibility, scalability, and performance required to create a myriad of opportunities for building business and technical solutions that match specific customer requirements—at extremely competitive prices. These systems are well suited for applications such as database, business processing,application and Web services, grid computing, analytical simulations, search engines, and much more. As the number of systems in an organization grows, the complexities of managing a system infrastructure through its life cycle become increasingly apparent. A server could be reprovisioned many times in its lifetime to support business needs. For example, its role could change from application host to database server, or move from a staging environment into production. And once the systems are provisioned, IT operators must continuously monitor and manage them to ensure that they perform at desired levels. Managing each step of the infrastructure life cycle is challenging for even the most sophisticated IT organizations. Sun N1 System Manager is specifically designed to solve this problem with its comprehensive infrastructure life cycle management capabilities. Customers can discover, provision, monitor, update, and manage hundreds of Sun Firex64 and SPARC servers from a single console, with an innovative and user-friendly hybrid graphical and command line interface (CLI).
Key Highlights
A step-by-step approachN1 System Manager takes a step-by-step approach to simplify and automate system management tasks, enabling customers to deploy servers quickly and efficiently, and lowering operating costs—all at the same time.Hybrid user interfaceMost system management products offer separate graphical user interfaces (GUIs) and CLIs toexecute management tasks. While some administrators prefer to use GUIs, others are more comfortable with CLIs. Often, tasks executed in one tool are not visible in the other. This makes it difficult for IT organizations to track and analyze actions performed in their environments.N1 System Manager takes a unique and innovative approach to address this problem, offering a hybrid user interface, accessible from the Web, that integrates both the GUI and CLI into a single console. This approach offers IT organizations maximum flexibility and productivity. With this hybrid UI, operators can easily switch between the GUI and CLI, choosing whichever is most effective for performing a specific task. Operations performed in the GUI are simultaneously reflected in the CLI, and vice versa. This enables administrators to maintain visibility of all management functions that are executed.  DiscoverAs systems are added to the management network, IT administrators can use N1 System Manager to automatically discover bare metal systems based on a given subnet address or Internet Protocol (IP) range.GroupIn order to manage a large number of systems efficiently, administrators can logically group them together using N1 System Manager, depending on business requirements. For example, systems can be grouped according to operating environments, application functions, or organizational structures. Operators can perform management functions across a group of systems as easily as a single system.ProvisionN1 System Manager can remotely install operating systems—the Solaris OS, Linux, and Microsoft Windows—onto selected systems. Administrators can use this capability to provision operating systems onto bare metal systems, or reprovision existing systems. As the system infrastructure lifecycle continues, N1 System Manager can update firmware and provision software packages and patches to desired systems, maintaining an optimal operating environment.MonitorOnce the systems areup and running, administrators can use N1 System Manager to monitor system health, ensuring that they are running at optimal levels. It provides detailed hardware monitoring information for fans, temperature, disk, and voltage usage. It also monitors operating system attributes such as swap space, CPU, memory,and filesystems. Administrators can define specific event threshold levels and select preferred notification methods—e-mail, pager, or Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) traps—for each monitored component, as business needs demand.ManageBusinesses require that infrastructure life cycle management extend beyond just deploying and monitoring systems. N1 System Manager includes lights-out management capabilities, such as powering systems on and off, and remote access via serial console, to help organizations manage IT infrastructures from remote locations. Leveraging N1 System Manager software's Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) feature, organizations can grant different users permission to perform specific management tasks.A compelling offerWhether you arein the market for a reliable foundation for serving application and Web services,ahighlyavailable and responsive database engine, or a flexible and scalable building block for grid computing, Sun Fire x64 and SPARC servers deliver superior performance at a competitive and attractive price and low cost of ownership. These systems set new standards for value, performance, flexibility, reliability,and choice. They all come with built-in management capabilities out of the box. When used in conjunction with N1 System Manager, the Sun Firex64 and SPARC servers deliver some of the most compelling values in the market today.N1 softwareN1 System Manager is a key component of Sun's N1 management software portfolio, architected and designed to provision, monitor, and manage system infrastructure and application services through out their life cycles. For more information, visit sun.com/software/n1gridsystem.Features and Benefits
Free softwareSun N1 System Manager is part of the Solaris Enterprise System. You can download it from sun.com/software/swportfolio/get.jsp and use this sophisticated infrastructure software at no cost. And, when you need assurance and support, Sun offers licensing and support plans for purchase. |
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