Features Nearing End of Life

Public Network Management (PNM) will not be supported in the next Sun Cluster feature release. Network adapter monitoring and failover for Sun Cluster will instead be performed by Solaris IP Multipathing.

Public Network Management (PNM)

PNM should be used to configure and administer network interface card monitoring and failover. However, the user interfaces to the PNM daemon and PNM administration commands are obsolete and will be removed in the next Sun Cluster feature release. Users are strongly discouraged from developing tools that rely on these interfaces. The following interfaces are officially supported in the current release, but are expected to be removed in the next Sun Cluster feature release.

• pnmd(1M)

• pnmconfig(4)

• pnmstat(1M)

• pnmset(1M)

• pnmrtop(1M)

• pnmptor(1M)

With the integration of IP Multipathing in the next feature release, the Solaris IP Multipathing administration model and interfaces should be used for network availability management. See the Solaris IP Multipathing Administration Guide for more details.