Sun Microsystems 280R manual About Isolating Failed Components

About Monitoring the System Using Sun Management Center Software

Sun Management Center software is an open, extensible system monitoring and management solution. It uses Java software protocol and Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) to provide an integrated and comprehensive enterprise-wide management of Sun products and their subsystems, components, and peripheral devices.

Sun Management Center lets you monitor 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 system must be up and running if you want to use Sun Management Center, since this tool runs on top of the Solaris Operating Environment. For instructions, see “How to Monitor the System Using Sun Management Center Software” on page 177. For detailed information about the product, see the Sun Management Center Software User’s Guide.

About Isolating Failed Components

The Sun Fire 280R server includes a collection of software and firmware tools that let you quickly determine what FRU needs to be replaced in a malfunctioning system.

About Isolating Failures Using Sun Remote System Control (RSC)

You can use Sun Remote System Control (RSC) to find out whether any of the following system components are reporting problems or failures:

■Internal disk drives

■Fan tray

■Power supplies

■CPU modules

RSC also gives you access to output from power-on self-test (POST) and OpenBoot Diagnostics. RSC displays an alert to users logged in to an RSC account on the server, and can also send alert messages by email or pager.

Chapter 6 Diagnostics, Monitoring, and Troubleshooting 165