Autonomous Agents

Sun Management Center agents work autonomously by actively sampling key data on host systems. These agents can be polled through SNMP get requests for the current status of the monitored data.

When an agent gathers data for a monitored resource, the agent checks the data against the alarm threshold set for the resource. The agent then determines whether the data values constitute an alarm condition. If the monitored data meets the alarm threshold, the agent performs the action that is associated with the alarm condition. Agents send asynchronous messages (SNMP traps) to the server, which delivers notification of the change in the status of the monitored data.