Agent Layer

The agent layer monitors, gathers information about, and manages objects on the nodes that the Sun Management Center software manages. The server layer uses SNMP to interact with the agent layer to gain access to the managed objects.

Sun Management Center agents are scalable, extensible, and SNMP-based. The agents monitor and manage objects by loading modules that focus on a specific aspect of the system, as well as application health and performance. These objects represent hardware, operating systems, and applications.

The agents use rules to determine the status of the managed objects. When the conditions that a rule specifies become true, the software automatically generates alarms and performs actions as the rule specifies.