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Integration with Third Party System Management ISV Tools

Sun is continually testing and developing third party system management tools to ensure easy integration of our systems into customers' existing management environments. Some of the key system management ISV tools and their support for Sun systems is detailed below:

Integrations


Sun Servers Integration 1.1 for Altiris Deployment Solution 6.9

Sun Servers Integration for Altiris Deployment Solution 6.9 provides you with a customized automation environment and the Sun Deployment Wizard, which is an easy to use graphical wizard which simplifies the process of deploying your Sun x64 servers using Altiris DS 6.9.

The Sun Deployment Wizard helps you to construct deployment jobs that can then be exported to Altiris DS 6.9 and used to deploy your Sun x64 servers. Sun Servers Integration for Altiris Deployment Solution 6.9 provides tasks that can be used in the jobs, such as partitioning and formating disks, deploying Windows Server 2003 or 2008, configuring ILOM service processors and so on.

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BMC® Patrol

Sun Servers Integration 2.0 for BMC PATROL® Enterprise Manager (PEM).

This integration provides the tools and utilities needed to completely integrate Sun servers into a BMC PEM environment. This solution is designed to receive and process SNMP traps. Alerts, which are stored in the PEM database, conform to BMC Common Event Format and as such can be processed by other infrastructure monitoring tools that integrate with PEM, including third party solutions.

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CA Unicenter Network and Systems Management (NSM)®


Sun Fire Servers Integration 2.2 for CA Unicenter Network and Systems Management (NSM). CA Smart Certified.

Key functionality:

  • Sun-specific icons representing Sun Fire service processors in the Unicenter 2D Map, Unicenter Management Command Center (MCC) in r11.x, and Unicenter Explorer in Release 3.x
  • Sun-specific menu tools to launch the following Sun services
    • Web GUI access to the Sun Integrated Lights Out Manager (ILOM) running on the server service processor
    • Web access to the Server Management home page for the Embedded Lights Out Manager (LOM) running on the server service processor
    • SSH CLI access to the ILOM command shell
    • Unicenter MIB Browser views into the real-time status of individual hardware-monitoring sensors on your Sun server
    • Server-to-service-processor linking. This allows more effective drill-downs from server to service processor to sensors
  • Sun-specific event monitoring and escalation to the Unicenter NSM Enterprise Management (EM) Console
  • Sun-specific service processor traps translated into readable, user-friendly summaries in the Unicenter NSM Enterprise Management (EM) Console

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HP® OpenView Operations for Unix

Sun Servers Integration 1.1 for HP OpenView Operations for Unix

The Sun Servers Integration 1.1 for HP OpenView Operations for Unix provides the tools and utilities needed to completely integrate Sun servers into an OpenView Operations for Unix environment.

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HP® OpenView Operations for Windows

Sun Servers Integration 1.0 for HP OpenView Operations for Windows

The Sun Servers Integration 1.0 for HP OpenView Operations for Windows provides the tools and utilities needed to completely integrate Sun servers into an OpenView Operations for Windows environment.

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HP® Systems Insight Manager


Sun has produced an updated, May 2008, best practices guide to facilitate integration of Sun ILOM based x64 and SPARC systems and other non ILOM based x64 systems into a HP Systems Insight Manager environment. This guide details how to ensure smooth integration, including functions such as hardware event management.

Supported Systems:
  • Sun Fire X2100 M2, X2200 M2
  • Sun ILOM 2 based x64 and SPARC Systems

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IBM® Tivoli® Enterprise Console

Sun Servers Integration 1.2 for IBM Tivoli Enterprise Console® (TEC).

The Sun Servers Integration 1.2 for IBM Tivoli Enterprise Console provides the tools and utilities needed to completely integrate Sun servers into a Tivoli Enterprise Console (TEC) environment.

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IBM® Tivoli® Monitoring (ITM)

Sun Servers Integration 1.0 for IBM Tivoli Monitoring V6.1 provides the tools and utilities needed to completely integrate Sun servers into an IBM Tivoli Monitoring (ITM) V6.1 environment.

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IBM® Tivoli® Netcool/OMNIbus

The Sun Servers Integration 1.3 for IBM Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus provides the tools and utilities needed to completely integrate Sun servers into an IBM Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus environment.

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IBM Director


The Sun Servers Integration 1.1 for IBM Director provides the tools and utilities needed to completely integrate Sun servers into an IBM Director environment.

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Microsoft Operations Manager 2005

The Sun Fire Servers Management Pack 3.3 for Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 provides the tools and utilities needed to completely integrate Sun Fire x64 servers into the Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 environment.

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Operating System Requirements:

  • Microsoft Operations Manager 2005
  • Supports clients running Windows 2003 Server SP1 or SP2 with Release 2
  • Supports clients running Windows 2003 Server SP1 or SP2 without Release 2 (requires Sun IPMI System Management Driver for Microsoft Windows Server 2003 and ipmievd from IPMItool for Microsoft Windows 2003 with Sun IPMI System Management Driver Support)

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Sun Deployment Pack 1.0 for Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007

The Sun Deployment Pack 1.0 for Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 provides a solution for quickly and easily authoring Sun hardware-specific task sequences for operating system deployment using Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007. This pack seamlessly integrates a custom task sequence action into SCCM, which enables you to easily configure your Sun x64 server hardware as part of an overall operating system deployment.

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Sun Update Catalog for Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007

The Sun Update Catalog for Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 provides the data necessary to perform driver updates for Sun servers with Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager.

The following operating systems are supported:
  • Microsoft Windows 2003 Enterprise Edition with SP1
  • Microsoft Windows 2003 Enterprise Edition with SP2
  • Microsoft Windows 2003 R2 Enterprise Edition with SP1
  • Microsoft Windows 2003 R2 Enterprise Edition with SP2
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Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007

The Sun Servers Integration 2.3 for Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 provides the tools and utilities needed to completely integrate Sun servers into the Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 or Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 environment.

The following operating systems are supported (both 32-bit and 64-bit editions are supported):

  • Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard with SP1 or SP2 (see note below)
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard R2 with SP1 or SP2
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise with SP1 or SP2 (see note below)
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise R2 with SP1 or SP2
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Standard with SP1
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Enterprise with SP1
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Datacenter with SP1
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Scalent Virtual Operating Environment (V/OE)


Scalent V/OE 2.5 enables data centers to transition rapidly between different software, network, and storage access configurations – or from bare metal to live connected servers without physical intervention.

Supported Systems:
  • Sun Fire V20z, V40z
  • Sun Fire X2100, X4100, X4200, X4600
  • Sun Fire V210, V240, V440
  • Sun Blade T6300, X6220, X6250
Supported Operating Systems:
  • Solaris 10 (x64 and SPARC)
  • Solaris 9 (SPARC)
  • RHEL3 Update 4, RHEL4 Update 4
  • SuSE Linux versions 9 & 10
  • Windows 2003 Server
Supported Hypervisors:
  • Sun Logical Domains 1.0.1
  • Xen
  • VMware

IPMItool 1.8.10.3


This IPMItool release contains Sun-specific bugfixes and features that have not yet been integrated into the IPMItool source gate at SourceForge. It is suggested that customers use this release to manage Sun servers.

This release contains both 32bit and 64bit Linux RPMs, Solaris packages and Windows executables. The Windows executables support both the Microsoft IPMI Driver, included with Windows Server 2003 R2 and Windows Server 2008, and the Sun IPMI System Management Driver (ISM), for use with Windows Server 2003 without R2. The former is utilized with the "-I ms" parameter and the latter with the "-I ism" parameter.

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Sun IPMI System Management Driver for Server 2003 prior to R2


The Sun IPMI System Management Driver 2.1 for Microsoft Windows Server 2003 provides for communication from the Windows 2003 operating system to the ILOM Service Processor over the KCS interface.

This driver is to be used only when R2 release for Windows 2003 SP1 or SP2 is not installed. The R2 release includes an IPMI driver as part of the Hardware Monitoring add-on that should be used instead, when available.

This driver can be used with ipmitool or ipmievd; see the ipmitool entry above for more information.

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Sun ILOM Common SNMP MIBs


All the Integrated Lights Out Manager (ILOM) common SNMP MIBs for supported platforms:

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Service Processor Error Injector 1.0


The Service Processor Error Injector facilitates injecting events into a service processor. It is written as a Python wrapper around IPMItool.

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