Sun Microsystems V490 manual Monitoring the System Using Sun Management Center

For instructions on using RSC software to monitor a Sun Fire V490 system, see “How to Monitor the System Using the System Controller and RSC Software” on page 190.

Monitoring the System Using Sun Management Center

Sun Management Center software provides enterprise-wide monitoring of Sun servers and workstations, including their subsystems, components, and peripheral devices. The system being monitored must be up and running, and you need to install all the proper software components on various systems in your network.

Sun Management Center lets you monitor the following on the Sun Fire V490 server.

TABLE 6-8What Sun Management Center Software Monitors

Item Monitored	What Sun Management Center Reveals
Disk drives	Whether each slot has a drive present, and whether it reports
	OK status
Fan trays	Whether the fan trays report OK status
CPU/Memory boards	The presence of a CPU/Memory board, the temperature
	measured at each processor, and any thermal warning or failure
	conditions
Power supplies	Whether each bay has a power supply present, and whether it
	reports OK status
System temperature	System ambient temperature as measured at several locations in
	the system, as well as any thermal warning or failure conditions

How Sun Management Center Works

The Sun Management Center product comprises three software entities:

■Agent components

■Server component

■Monitor components

You install agents on systems to be monitored. The agents collect system status information from log files, device trees, and platform-specific sources, and report that data to the server component.

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