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Solstice Site Manager
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With the explosive growth of client/server computing, companies are faced with the dilemma of how to best manage complex, heterogeneous environments. This challenge is further complicated by the fact that there is no consistent set of management platforms to manage different size environments. Low-end platforms can manage small sites cost-effectively, but do not scale to manage large environments. Conversely, high-end enterprise management platforms can be cost-prohibitive to deploy in smaller sites. Furthermore, platforms typically do not offer distribution between platforms that allow administration expertise to be leveraged between sites. To meet these needs Sun Microsystems created Solstice Site Manager and Solstice Domain Manager, which together provide:
Solstice Site ManagerSolstice Site Manager can manage up to 100 nodes. It includes Solstice Cooperative Consoles sender, which allows management data (topology, events, and traps) to be forwarded to Solstice Domain Manager.Solstice Site Manager is intended to address small site management by cost-effectively centralizing the management efforts. Today, UNIX®-based management platforms are too expensive to deploy in many sites. The lower-end Microsoft Windows-based platforms fit in the price window, but are not scalable in terms of number of nodes. If the administrator needs to upgrade to a larger platform, they have to migrate to an entirely different platform. This transition can be much more expensive because it requires a different database, different applications, a different user interface, etc. Solstice Site Manager can centralize LAN management by accessing Novell NetWare Management Agent (NMA) 2.0. This agent resides on a NetWare server that also has TCP/IP installed on it. The NMA agent allows Solstice Site Manager to manage the NetWare server's file system, print queues, user groups (who is logged in), and other key attributes. Solstice Site Manager can also import the topology map from Novell's ManageWise network management console. With this feature, Solstice Site Manager can view PCs on the NetWare LAN as a separate view from the IP network that it is managing. Solstice Site Manager provides Advanced Event Management to monitor the health of a network and its critical devices, while providing an easy-to-use tool to construct the event requests. The operator or administrator can define and launch tools, called requests, which gather management data from network and system resources. Tabular and graphic reports summarize the data gathered by the requests. The User Tools included in Solstice Site Manager are consistent with Solstice Domain Manager and enable operators to monitor and control network and system resources. Platform DistributionDistribution is a key foundation of both Solstice Site Manager and Solstice Domain Manager. Each of these products should be viewed as interconnectable components that together manage the enterprise. A company could deploy multiple Solstice Site Managers and connect those to a Solstice Domain Manager.As the enterprise grows and more sites or branch offices are added, multiple Solstice Site Managers could be connected to the Solstice Domain Manager. A company may also want to have multiple Solstice Domain Managers for their key administration personnel. These individuals could share management information as appropriate to best leverage their expertise. The platform distribution is based on Solstice Cooperative Consoles technology, which gives Solstice Site Manager and Solstice Domain Manager users a distributed data model for cooperatively managing medium to large networks. Solstice Cooperative Consoles sends the network updates that occur with one platform to another platform. The second platform sees all topology map changes as well as events or traps that occur in the network. Solstice Cooperative Consoles can filter information by specific device, device type, trap type, view, or view type (e.g. building, campus, etc.). It provides security through access control lists (which console can receive information). The platform distribution can also sync two consoles during start-up either manually or automatically. Thus the consoles can always be in sync even if they get disconnected temporarily. This feature is also useful if a connection is intended to be a temporary one, where a user at one console helps in troubleshooting at another site. AgentsSolstice Site Manager and Solstice Domain Manager can manage large networks by spreading the management processing load around the network with two different kinds of agents. One type of agent directly accesses managed objects while the second type, proxy agents, act as mid-level managers. These mid-level managers provide two primary benefits:
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