Sun Management Center (formerly known as Sun Enterprise SyMON), another operating environment level program, provides you with a variety of continuous system monitoring capabilities. It enables you to monitor system hardware status and operating system performance of your server. For more information about Sun Management Center software, see “How to Monitor the System Using Sun Management Center Software” on page 177.
Remote System Control (RSC) hardware and software combine to extend all the diagnostic and OpenBoot firmware control from your local server to any remote system from which you wish to connect to the local server. In addition, you can use monitoring software such as Sun Management Center to monitor the system remotely. RSC software supplies the following features:
■Remote system monitoring and error reporting, including output from POST and OpenBoot Diagnostics
■Remote server reboot,
■Ability to monitor the CPU temperature and fan sensors without being near the managed server, even when the server is offline
■Ability to run diagnostic tests from a remote console
■Remote event notification of server problems
■A detailed log of RSC events
■Remote console functions on both the modem and Ethernet ports
For more information about RSC hardware, see “Using the Sun Remote System Control (RSC) Card” on page 74.
Enhanced System Availability Software
The Sun Fire 280R system supports alternate pathing for network connections and for disk drives. Network availability is supported using multipathing features in the Internet Protocol Network MultiPathing(IPMP) software in the Solaris 8 Operating Environment. Disk availability is improved using VERITAS software. For more information see “About Multipathing Software” on page 115.
Sun Cluster 3.0 software provides higher levels of availability than are possible with a single server by connecting together a cluster of servers. The software enables automatic recovery from any single hardware or software failure within the cluster by automatically restarting a failed application or by migrating the application and its resources to a backup server. For more information, see “About Sun Clustering Software” on page 117.
