Preface

The Sun Management Center 3.0 Service Availability Manager User's Guide provides instructions on how to use the modules in Service Availability Manager.

Audience

This document is intended for users familiar with the Sun Management Center product. Therefore, many terms and concepts specific to the Sun Management Center are not explained here. For more information about the Sun Management Center, refer to the Sun Management Center 3.0 User's Guide .

Contents of this Manual

This document describes all services offered by Service Availability Manager. It includes the following chapters:

Chapter 1, "Introduction to Service Availability Manager"

Chapter 2, "Service Availability Manager Installation and Setup"

Chapter 3, "Synthetic Transaction Modules"

Chapter 4, "Service Element Modules"

Chapter 5, "Service Availability Manager GUI"

Appendix A, "Configuration and Module Parameters Reference"

Sun Management Center allows you to install and set up the add-on, load the modules in the agent through the console, and manage the alarm events generated by these modules. You can also use the existing Sun Management Center discovery mechanism to discover an object containing all the services that are being monitored from a system. You can view the availability of all their services through the Service Availability Manager GUI.

Access to Latest Information on Sun Management Center

For the latest information on the Sun Management Center 3.0 software and the Service Availability Manager add-on product, refer to the following site:

http://www.sun.com/sunmanagementcenter/

Using UNIX Commands

This document does not contain information on basic UNIX® commands and procedures, such as shutting down the system, booting the system, and configuring devices. See one or more of the following for this information:

Solaris Handbook for Sun Peripherals

AnswerBook online documentation for the Solaris operating environment

Other software documentation that you received with your system

Shell Prompts

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C shell superuser	machine_name `#`
Bourne shell and Korn shell	`$`
Bourne shell and Korn shell superuser	`#`

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