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About Monitoring the System
Sun provides two tools that can give you advance warning of difficulties and
prevent future downtime. These are:
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Sun Remote System Control (RSC)
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Sun Management Center
These monitoring tools let you specify system criteria that bear watching. For
instance, you can set a threshold for system temperature and be notified if that
threshold is exceeded. Warnings can be reported by visual indicators in the
software’s interface, or you can be notified by email or pager alert whenever a
problem occurs.
Monitoring the System Using Sun Remote System
Control
Sun Remote System Control (RSC) enables you to monitor and control your server
over a serial port, over modem lines, and over a network. RSC provides both
graphical and command-line interfaces for remotely administering geographically
distributed or physically inaccessible machines.
You can also redirect the server’s system console to RSC, which lets you remotely
run diagnostics (like POST) that would otherwise require physical proximity to the
machine’s serial port. RSC can send email or pager notification of hardware failures
or other server events.
The RSC card runs independently, and uses standby power from the server.
Therefore, RSC firmware and software continue to be effective when the server
operating system goes offline.
The RSC card also includes a backup battery that supplies approximately 30 minutes
of power to the RSC card in case of a complete system power failure.
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