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Chapter 6 Diagnostic Tools 111
Other Sun Management Center Features
Sun Management Center software provides you with additional tools in the form of
an informal tracking mechanism and an optional add-on diagnostics suite. In a
heterogeneous computing environment, the product can interoperate with
management utilities made by other companies.
Informal Tracking
Sun Management Center agent software must be loaded on any system you want to
monitor. However, the product lets you informally track a supported platform even
when the agent software has not been installed on it. In this case, you do not have
full monitoring capability, but you can add the system to your browser, have Sun
Management Center periodically check whether it is up and running, and notify you
if it goes out of commission.
Add-On Diagnostic Suite
The Hardware Diagnostic Suite is available as a premium package you can purchase as
an add-on to the Sun Management Center product. This suite lets you exercise a
system while it is still up and running in a production environment. See “Exercising
the System Using Hardware Diagnostic Suite” on page 114 for more information.
Interoperability With Third-Party Monitoring Tools
If you administer a heterogeneous network and use a third-party network-based
system monitoring or management tool, you may be able to take advantage of Sun
Management Center software’s support for Tivoli Enterprise Console, BMC Patrol,
and HP Openview.
Who Should Use Sun Management Center?
Sun Management Center software is geared primarily toward system administrators
who have large data centers to monitor or other installations that have many
computer platforms to monitor. If you administer a more modest 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.