Managing Sun Systems - Hardware configuration, monitoring and lifecycle management

Sun provides a comprehensive suite of tools to enable complete management of Sun systems:

Management of Individual Systems — Direct Control, Locally or Remotely

Sun believes that built-in manageability is a right, not a privilege. Therefore, all Sun systems come with state-of-the-art integrated service processors.

• Complete control of your system, locally or remotely
• No additional cost for extra service processor functionality
• No extra integration costs
• No staff retraining costs

Easy Integration

Integrating with customers' existing management infrastructures is key to enabling fast deployment. Sun's service processors deliver industry standard management interfaces including:

• SNMP v1, v2c & v3
• IPMI 2.0
• DMTF style CLI (Command Line Interface)
• Browser-based graphical user interface
• Java-based Remote Console

Security

Sun's service processors ensure tight security by supporting key encryption and sign-on authentication protocols, such as:

• SSH 2.0
• HTTPS
• LDAP
• RADIUS
• Microsoft Active Directory

Transparent Management — Sun Blade Systems

A key design goal across our enterprise-class blade systems is to ensure that customers are not required to change their system management infrastructure or practices. Every Sun blade server module has an embedded service processor and provides for both local and remote management. Key benefits of Sun's transparent management approach:

• Blades are managed just like rackmount servers, nothing new to manage
• Integrated Service Processor on every blade server module
• No additional cost for extra service processor functionality
• No hidden system management licensing costs
• No extra integration costs
• No staff retraining costs

In addition, we cater for customers who do wish to monitor their blade systems at the chassis level by providing a Chassis Monitoring Module (CMM) in each Sun blade chassis.