If you plan to manage your Sun Blade 8000 Series as one resource in a comprehensive data center management solution, you can integrate it with the Sun N1™ System Manager. This software suite provides advanced virtualization features that enable you to monitor, maintain, and provision multiple Solaris™, Linux, and Microsoft Windows servers in your data center.
The Sun N1 System Manager is distributed separately from your server and available to download from http://www.sun.com/software/products/system_manager/. This software suite is installed on a dedicated server in your data center and enables one or more remote management clients to perform the following tasks on multiple managed servers:
Monitor system information – System manufacturer, make, model, serial number, management MAC addresses, disk information, expansion slot information, and platform CPU and memory information.
Manage power remotely – Power off, power on, power reset, and power status.
Manage service processors and BIOS – Information about system service processor firmware, version, and status. You can also perform remote upgrades to firmware on system service processors.
Manage system boot commands and options – Remote boot control via IPMI and remote mapping of boot devices and boot options.
Manage remote system health checks – Information about the status of a server.
Manage serial-over-LAN connections – Via the Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI).
To learn more about this suite of powerful data center management tools, see http://www.sun.com/software/products/system_manager/.