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General QuestionsQ: What is Sun N1 System Manager?
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Sun N1 System Manager provides comprehensive infrastructure life-cycle management capabilities for discovering, provisioning, monitoring, and managing Sun Fire x64 and SPARC servers from a single unified Web console.
Q: What is new in N1 System Manager release 1.3?
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The key new features in release 1.3 are:
Q: What are the key features of N1 System Manager?
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N1 System Manager provides the following key features:
Q: What is the role of N1 System Manager in Sun's N1 Software Strategy?
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N1 is Sun's strategy to provide life-cycle management for systems and applications. The N1 software portfolio consists of four products: N1 System Manager, N1 Service Provisioning System, N1 Grid Engine, and Sun Management Center.
Using N1 System Manager, IT managers can speed up system deployment, improve productivity, and reduce operating costs. This enables customers to respond quickly to changes in business requirements and gain time-to-market advantage. Q: How does N1 System Manager fit into Solaris Enterprise System?
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Sun created Solaris Enterprise System to remove barrier to software adoption for all customers. Solaris Enterprise System contains
enterprise class software that customers can use at no cost. And when you need assurance and support, Sun offers licensing and service plan for purchase.
N1 software is part of the Solaris Enterprise System. To download N1 System Manager software, go to sun.com/software/products/system_manager/get.xml. To purchase the physical media kits and entitlements, go to sun.com/software/products/system_manager/get.xml. Q: What's the difference between Sun N1 System Manager and Sun N1 Service Provisioning System?
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Both Sun N1 System Manager and Sun N1 Service Provision System simplifies and automates the operating systems provisioning process. Sun N1 System Manager focuses on Sun servers while Sun N1 Service Provisioning System supports heterogeneous platforms. Depending on the OS and platform requirements, customers can choose the right product that best meet their needs.
Q: How do I use Sun N1 System Manager and Sun Management Center together?
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Sun Management Center provides in-depth monitoring and advanced management capabilities for Sun enterprise servers enabling IT to enhance the service level of their systems.
Using an addon, Volume System Monitoring, shipped with Sun Management Center, Sun N1 System Manager can be integrated for provisioning and monitoring of volume systems, allowing IT to manage all Sun servers from Sun Management Center console. Q: When should I use Sun N1 System Manager and when should I use Sun Management Center?
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Sun N1 System Manager:
Sun N1 System Manager provides comprehensive infrastructure life-cycle management capabilities for, provisioning monitoring, and managing hundreds of Sun Fire x64 servers and SPARC volume servers. The application is used for managing large number of Sun volume servers in a horizontally scale environment, such as web server farm. Its easy-to-use hybrid user interface will effectively reduce the repetitive management tasks and the human errors often associated with them, as well as shortening the time it takes to deploy these systems. Sun Management Center: The Sun Management Center product line provides the most in-depth monitoring and management of Sun enterprise servers, allowing system administrators to manage their systems more effectively and at a lower cost while improving the service level of their Sun environment. Sun Management Center can proactively alarm hardware and software fault conditions and offers attributes on which users can set thresholds to launch predetermined activities on the system. The base product works with other modular components (sold separately) to provide additional deep monitoring, RAS and performance reporting of SPARC and x64 based systems. Further, Sun Management Center can be integrated with customers' existing enterprise management framework to supplement and enhance the operations centers view of their Sun hardware and software stack. Please visit sun.com/software/products/sunmanagementcenter. for more information. Q: What operating systems does N1 System Manager support?
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N1 System Manager supports Solaris, Linux, and Microsoft Windows (OS provisioning only).
Q: What hardware platforms does N1 System Manager support?
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N1 System Manager supports a wide array of Sun Fire
x64 and SPARC servers. To get the latest supported platform information, please reference the product data sheet.
Q: How many systems can N1 System Manager support?
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N1 System Manager is designed to provide optimal support for hundreds of Sun systems. Depending on the system configurations, performance requirements, and IT operations, the actual number could vary for different customers.
Q: Where can I get an overview of N1 System Manager?
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The N1 System Manager demo gives a high level tour of the product features and business benefits. You can view the product demo at
sun.com/software/tours.xml#4.
To gain a deeper understanding of the product capabilities and architecture, you can view the product webinar at https://communications.sun.com/sunCore/c/ALLG06_N1_Sys_Mgr_reg_1105.jsp?cid=78538. Also, read the following Expert Exchange Forum (live Q&A chat): Simplify Systems Management with Sun N1 Software Expert Exchange (March 29, 2006). Also, you can get detail product information from the data sheet. Q: What training classes are available for N1 System Manager?
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The following training classes are available for Sun N1 System Manager:
Q: Can N1 System Manager support nodes on the WAN?
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Support of nodes on the WAN is limited and depends on the protocols that get routed.
Q: Does N1 System Manager support out-of-band hardware monitoring?
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N1 System Manager can monitor bare metal system by directly communicating with the service processor using industry standard protocols (IPMI for Sun Fire x64 server; ALOM for SPARC server).
Q: Can N1 System Manager support nodes outside of a firewall?
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No.
Q: How do I install the N1 System Manager agent on the managed node?
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N1 System Manager automatically installs the agent during the OS provisioning process. It can also be installed after the fact using the "add server feature osmonitor" command.
Q: Can N1 System Manager integrated with N1 Grid Engine?
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Users desiring to combine system management with grid compute can use this feature to execute Grid Engine operations and monitor attributes on System Manager console.
Q: What user authentication modes does N1 System Manager support?
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The authentication models are /etc/passwd, NIS, LDAP and any mode that can use PAM.
Q: Can I generate pager and email alerts for specific monitored attributes?
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N1 System Manager provides system alert information through an external SMTP gateway.
Q: Does N1 System Manager provide its own SNMP agent?
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N1 System Manager provides a SNMP agent to collect information from the managed nodes. The agent is specified via an Info MIB and a Trap MIB.
Q: Can N1 System Manager forward snmp traps from agents running on SP and/or managed nodes?
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Currently, N1 System Manager can forward SNMP traps from N1 System management server indirectly. All traps sent by the monitored platforms are converted into N1 System Manager events which can be used to generate traps. For example IPMI traps can be translated and sent out as N1 System Manager traps.
Q: What are the network requirements?
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Ethernet networks to access the Service Processor and at least one front side server ports from the N1 System Manager management server are required. It also support DHCP for OS deployment.
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