Sun Microsystems Fire V240, Administration Manual

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42 Sun Fire V210 and V240 Servers Administration Guide • April 2003
Sun Management Center
Sun Management Center software provides enterprise-wide monitoring of Sun
servers and workstations, including their subsystems, components, and peripheral
devices. The system being monitored must be up and running, and you need to
install all the proper software components on various systems in your network.
Sun Management Center lets you monitor the following on the Sun Fire V210 and
V240 server.
How Sun Management Center Works
The Sun Management Center consists of three components:
■
Agent
■
Server
■
Monitor
You install agents on systems to be monitored. The agents collect system status
information from log files, device trees, and platform-specific sources, and report
that data to the server component.
The server component maintains a large database of status information for a wide
range of Sun platforms. This database is updated frequently, and includes
information about boards, tapes, power supplies, and disks as well as operating
system parameters like load, resource usage, and disk space. You can create alarm
thresholds and be notified when these are exceeded.
The monitor components present the collected data to you in a standard format. Sun
Management Center software provides both a standalone Java application and a
Web browser-based interface. The Java interface affords physical and logical views
of the system for highly-intuitable monitoring.
TABLE 4-1
What
Sun Management Center
Monitors
Item Monitored What Sun Management Center Monitors
Disk drives Status
Fans Status
CPUs Temperature and any thermal warning or failure conditions
Power supply Status
System temperature Temperature and any thermal warning or failure conditions