Sun Microsystems, Inc.
devices and manage configurations, statistics collection, performance, and security on a network. SNMP is a
network management protocol used almost exclusively in TCP/IP networks. The Sun Fire X4600 servers
provide SNMP MIBs to manage and monitor the servers using any SNMP-capable network management
system, such as HP OpenView Network Node Manager (NNM), Tivoli, CA Unicenter, or IBM Director. The MIB
data describes the information being managed, reflects current and recent server status, and provides server
statistics.
SNMP v1, v2c, and v3 are supported. v1 and v2c are disabled by default, leaving v3 enabled by default. SNMP
sets can be enabled or disabled. SNMP sets are disabled by default. An IPMI-specific trap, called a Platform
Event Trap, or PET, may also be generated.
Sun N1 System Manager
In today’s rapidly growing and constantly changing data centers, customers are deploying large number of
systems to scale out their computing environments. As the number of systems in an organization grows, the
complexities of managing a system infrastructure through its life-cycle become increasingly apparent. A server
could be re-provisioned many times in its lifetime to support the changing business needs. For example, its role
could change from an application host to a database server, or move from a staging site into a production
environment. And once the systems are provisioned, IT operators must continuously monitor and manage them to
ensure that they perform at desired levels.
Managing each step of the infrastructure life-cycle is challenging for even the most sophisticated IT staff. N1
System Manager is specifically designed to solve this problem with its comprehensive infrastructure life-cycle
management capabilities. Customers can manage hundreds of Sun Fire x64 and SPARC servers in a
heterogeneous environment from anywhere on the Web.
N1 System Manager enables IT organization to speed up system deployment, improve efficiency, increase
responsiveness, and lower operating costs. It simplifies the discovery, provisioning, monitoring, updating and
management processes for the life-cycle of Sun systems.
The key features of N1 System Manager include:
•Hybrid user Interface – a unique and innovative Web user interface with both GUI and CLI capabilities
for performing management tasks.
•Bare Metal Discovery – discovers compute nodes based on their subnet or IP address with minimal
manual intervention.
•Systems Grouping – groups systems together according to business requirements. Operators can
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