Chapter 1 System Overview 11
About the Sun Fire 280R Server Software
The Sun Fire 280R server requiresthe Solaris 8 Hardware 1/01 Operating
Environment or later compatible versions. Together,the Solaris 8 Operating
Environment and the server’s OpenBoot™ firmware (version 4.0.xx) support a suite
of server management, server monitoring, server configuration, and device
validation and management tools that extend the reliability,availability, and
serviceability features. Used with the Remote System Control (RSC) card, you can
control these features network-wide.
The Solaris 8 Operating Environment software supports the following tools.
■Server management software that includes:
■Sun™ Management Center,which provides a single solution for monitoring
and managing multiple Sun servers and systems, devices, and network
resources from asingle remote system.
■SolarisResource Manager™, which controls resource allocation to applications,
users, and user groups (Solaris Resource Manager is not bundled
with Solaris 8).
■Solaris™ Bandwidth Manager,which extends resource management control to
the network software.
■Solaris Management Console™, which provides a consistent, easy-to-use
interface that is also part of a software development kit (SDK) enabling the
integration of new Java™-developed software services into the Solaris console.
■Solaris 8 implementation of the Internet Engineering TaskForce (IETF)
specifications for the Internet Protocol Security Architecture,which allows
administrators to createand control secure encrypted networks and smart-card
authentication at login time.
■Internet Protocol Network MultiPathing (IPMP) alternate pathing software,
which enables failover or redirectionof network traffic among PCI networking
cards.
■A Solaris Live Upgrades feature, which executes server reconfiguration and
upgrades to the Solaris 8 Operating Environment while Solaris is running. This
feature includes dynamically adding new code to the Solaris 8 Operating
Environment kernel.
■Sun ValidationTest Suite (SunVTS™), which provides a comprehensive system
validation and test suite designed to support Sun hardware platforms and
peripherals.
■Sun Remote System Control (RSC) software, which supports both a graphical
and a command-line user interface for using the RSC software features from
the operating environment.