The Sun Blade 8000 Series supports a rich variety of system management tools that you can use to administer the system. These system management tools include:
Integrated Light Out Manager. With ILOM, you can monitor and manage the Sun Blade 8000 Series Modular Systems proactively by viewing hardware configurations, monitoring system information, managing system alerts, and more. It offers a browser-based graphical user interface (GUI), a command-line interface (CLI), as well as an SNMP user interface and an IPMI (2.0) user interface. ILOM is preinstalled at the factory and automatically initializes as soon as power is applied to the chassis. It will independently run on the Chassis Monitoring Module and each Sun Blade Server Module service processor. It will also continue to run regardless of the state of the host operating system on the server module.
Sun N1 System Manager. Sun N1 System Manager is a comprehensive system management tool that you can purchase separately. This tool offers flexible capabilities that simplify infrastructure management of SPARC, X64 Sun Fire servers, and Sun Blade Server Module. With Sun N1 System Manager, IT administrators can monitor, maintain, and provision multiple systems remotely from any Sun N1 Management Station. For more information about Sun N1 System Manager, see http://www.sun.com/software/products/system_manager.
Third-Party System Managers. The Sun Blade 8000 Series Modular Systems support both SNMP (v1, v2C, v3) and IPMI (2.0) third-party system management integration for tools like HP OpenView® and IBM Tivoli®.