Sun Management Center for Developers

Sun Management Center Developer Environment is the software development kit that provides Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) and tools to help organizations plan, design, develop, and integrate third-party applications, tools, and customized solutions based on the Sun Management Center framework.

With the Developer Environment, you can create new modules to extend the capabilities of Sun Management Center and integrate with third-party system management applications through a new intuitive and powerful GUI module builder.

Other new features to the Developer Environment include:

• A device model that allows users to define new objects
• Interfaces for pop-up menus over modules/tables/cells
• Improved discovery, client API enhancements
• Automatic load for add-on modules

• Build Modules: The developer environment includes all the tools you need to implement dynamically loaded modules - encapsulated sets of monitoring functions that focus on a particular aspect of system or application health and performance.
• Write Rules: With the developer environment, you can utilize simple alarm checking and rule evaluation techniques to provide comprehensive information transmission during an event.
• Use the client API: Built on top of the Sun Management Center framework, the Client API provides a higher level of management functionality for the Sun Management Center console.
• Integrate Applications: To help ensure operational success, the Sun Management Center console can be extended to include additional functionality.
• Conform to international and GUI guidelines: With the developer environment, you can create programs that utilize native language conventions for labels, error messages, heading, titles, and many other features.

A Sun Management Center Developer Environment license, enables you to manage an unlimited number of nodes for development and testing purposes. To manage nodes in your production environment, please contact your local Sun sales representative or reseller to purchase a separate Sun Management Center developer license. Support for the Developer Environment is available through Sun Developer Connection.

Sun Management Center provides all the system management capabilities you could ask for. Try it out, and you'll soon be wondering what management was like in the old days.

To purchase the product, please visit the SunStore or contact your local Sun sales representative or reseller for more details.