Sun Microsystems Fire V210, Administration Manual

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4-4 Sun Fire V210 and V240 Servers Administration Guide • December 2005
4.1.3 Using Sun Management Center
Sun Management Center software is aimed at system administrators who have large
data centers to monitor or other installations that have many computer platforms to
monitor. If you administer a smaller installation, you need to weigh Sun
Management Center software’s benefits against the requirement of maintaining a
significant database (typically over 700 Mbytes) of system status information.
The servers to be monitored must be running, Sun Management Center relies on the
Solaris OS for its operation.
Tip –
For detailed instructions, see the Sun Management Center 3.0 Supplement for Sun
Fire, Sun Blade, and Netra Systems (817-1007).
4.1.3.1 Obtaining the Latest Information
For the latest information about this product, go to the Sun Management Center Web
site:
http://www.sun.com/sunmanagementcenter
.
4.2 Hardware Diagnostic Suite
The Sun Management Center features an optional Hardware Diagnostic Suite, which
you can purchase as an add-on. The Hardware Diagnostic Suite is designed to
exercise a production system by running tests sequentially.
Sequential testing means the Hardware Diagnostic Suite has a low impact on the
system. Unlike SunVTS
TM
, which stresses a system by consuming its resources with
many parallel tests (see “SunVTS” on page 2 ), the Hardware Diagnostic Suite lets the
server run other applications while testing proceeds.
4.2.1 When to run Hardware Diagnostic Suite
The best use of the Hardware Diagnostic Suite is to identify a suspected or
intermittent problem with a non-critical part on an otherwise functioning system.
Examples might include questionable disk drives or memory modules on a server
that has ample or redundant disk and memory resources.