Sun Management Center 3.6.1 User's Guide

Module List

Table 11–1 lists generic modules that you can load and use. The list of modules that is displayed for your system depends on your platform type and any add-on products that you have installed. See your supplement for more information about platform-specific modules, including the Config-Reader and Dynamic Reconfiguration module. For information about the other Sun Management Center modules, see Appendix C, Sun Management Center Software Modules.

Table 11–1 Sun Management Center Modules

Module 

Module Version Number 

Add-on 

Description 

Agent Statistics 

2.0 

 

Provides information about the health of the agent installed on a host by monitoring the objects, processes, and execution of processes by the agent.

Agent Update 

1.0 

 

Enables you to use the Agent Update process to update software on agent systems.

Config-Reader 

1.0 

Config-Reader 

Provides the hardware configuration of the host. This module is available only if the hardware platform is supported and either the Workgroup or Desktop add-on products are installed. Both the physical view and the logical view require that this module be loaded.

Data Logging Registry 

2.0 

 

Provides information about agent data logging, such as log destination, module name, logging interval, and buffer length. Multiple copies of this module can be loaded.

Directory Size Monitoring 

2.0 

Advanced System Monitoring 

Enables you to isolate and monitor the size of any directory and its subdirectories on a host where a Sun Management Center agent is installed. Multiple copies of this module can be loaded, or you can add additional directories for monitoring by adding a row in the properties table.

Dynamic Reconfiguration 

2.0 

Dynamic Reconfiguration for Sun Fire High-End and Midrange Systems 

Enables you to perform dynamic reconfiguration operations on DR-enabled monitored hosts.

Fault Manager 

1.0 

Advanced System Monitoring 

 


Note –

This module can be installed only on Solaris 10.


Handles hardware and software faults effectively. Displays a detailed fault report or a message article for the selected fault. For instructions about viewing a fault report and a message article, see To View a Fault Report and To View a Message Article

File Monitoring 

2.0 

Advanced System Monitoring 

Monitors selected files on a host. Monitored parameters include file size and timestamps. Multiple copies of this module can be loaded. This module requires you to add rows in the data property table. For more information, see To Add a Row to a Data Property Table.

File Scanning 

2.0 

Advanced System Monitoring 

Scans files on a host for specified patterns. This module also scans multi-line fault messages that are written to the syslog file. Multiple copies of this module can be loaded. This module requires you to add rows in the data property table. For more information, see To Add a Row to a Data Property Table.

HP JetDirect 

2.0 

Advanced System Monitoring  

Monitors the status of HP printers that are equipped with a JetDirect card. Multiple copies of this module can be loaded.

Health Monitor 

2.0 

Advanced System Monitoring 

Enables you to monitor various resources usage in your host such as CPU, disk, NFS, and SNMP.

Kernel Reader 

2.0 

Advanced System Monitoring 

Provides kernel statistics, such as CPU details, system call, faults, streams, disk information, and page information.

Kernel Reader (Simple) 

1.0 

 

Provides kernel statistics, such as load statistics, swap statistics, and streams statistics. Also, provides software rules information.

Logview ACL 

1.0 

Advanced System Monitoring 

This module supports viewing and monitoring of the system log, Sun Management Center log, and other log files, using the Modules tab on the Details window. 

MIB-II Instrumentation 

1.0 

Advanced System Monitoring 

Provides the system, interfaces, IP, Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP), Transmission Control Protocol (TCP), and User Datagram Protocol (UDP) Management Information Base (MIB-II) group information of the monitored host.

MIB-II Proxy Monitoring 

2.0 

Advanced System Monitoring 

Provides proxy management of hosts that are running non-Sun Management Center MIB-II SNMP agents. Multiple copies of this module can be loaded.

MIB-II (Simple) 

1.0 

 

Provides the system Group, interfaces Group, IP Forwarding, IP Route Table information of the standard MIB-II (Management Information Base) group information of the monitored host. This module is a scaled-down version of the MIB-II Instrumentation module. 


Note –

The MIB-II module identifies an agent. If this module is not loaded, the agent can be created only as a ping host or as an SNMP host.


NFS File Systems 

2.0 

Advanced System Monitoring  

Provides information about the NFS file systems on monitored hosts by monitoring the amount of disk space occupied by mounted or unmounted file systems and the amount of used and available space as well as the file system's remaining total capacity.

NFS Statistics 

2.0 

Advanced System Monitoring  

Monitors the number of NFS calls and RPC (remote procedure calls) received by the server, and monitors the status of the transaction activity on the monitored host. Multiple copies of this module can be loaded.

Print Spooler 

3.0 

Advanced System Monitoring  

Monitors the status of the printer daemon, the print queue, and the printer devices that are installed on the monitored host.

Process Monitoring 

2.0 

Advanced System Monitoring 

Monitors one or more processes on the host. Specifies monitored processes by matching patterns. Multiple copies of this module can be loaded. This module requires you to add rows in the data property table. For more information, see To Add a Row to a Data Property Table.

Service Management Facility 

1.0 

Advanced System Monitoring 


Note –

This module can be installed only on Solaris 10.


Monitors and displays the services running on a host. This module also displays dependencies for the selected service and displays services that depend on the selected service. This module also displays the processes in the selected service. For more details, see Service Management Facility Module Version 1.0.

Solaris Process Details 

2.0 

Advanced System Monitoring  

Displays detailed information of Solaris processes running on a host where the Sun Management Center agent has been installed. The Process Details window requires that this module be loaded.

Storage A5x00

1.0 

Monitoring and Management of A5x00 and T3 Devices 

Enables you to monitor the state of A5000, 5100, and 5200 storage devices, and manage alarms on these devices. 

Sun StorEdge T3 

1.0 

Monitoring and Management of A5x00 and T3 Devices 

Enables you to monitor the state of T3 storage devices, and manage alarms on these devices. 

Volume System Monitoring 

1.0 

Volume System Monitoring 

The agent layer of this add-on can be installed only on hosts that has the Sun N1 System Manager server (System Manager) installed. In addition, the setup of this add-on requires the root user to be a valid System Manager user with permissions to create and delete System Manager event notifications. 

Monitors a set of attributes managed by the System Manager agent and displays them in the Module Browser. This module also listens for traps from the System Manager agent and performs appropriate actions. This module also generates warning, error, or information alarms based on the values of specific attributes. 

You can also access the System Manager server from this module. However, you have to log in and authenticate explicitly with the System Manager server. For instructions about accessing the System Manager server through the web console and through SSH, see To Access the System Manager Server Through Web Console and To Access the System Manager Server Through SSH.

X86/X64 Config Reader 

1.0 

X86/X64 Config Reader 

 

Monitors the hardware on x86/x64 systems that run Solaris 9, Solaris 10, or Linux kernel 2.6. This module provides the hardware summary view, logical view, and physical view of the system in the Hardware tab of the Details window. This module provides these views only if this add-on is installed on both the server and the agent. For more details, see X86/X64 Config Reader Module Version 1.0.

For more information about modules, see Appendix C, Sun Management Center Software Modules.


Note –

The Config-Reader and Dynamic Reconfiguration modules are supported only on specific hardware platforms. For more information, refer to your platform supplement.

Depending on your system hardware, additional modules might be supported. For more information, refer to the Sun Management Center web site at http://www.sun.com/sunmanagementcenter/.