Performance Reporting Manager Software

Performance Reporting Manager is installed as an add-on to the Sun Management Center 3.0 software. The software runs on the Solaris^TM 2.5.1, Solaris 2.6, Solaris 7, Solaris 8, and Solaris 9 operating environment, all the platforms that the Sun Management Center 3.0 agent can run on, and that are supported by Sun Management Center 3.0.

The Performance Reporting Manager server layer requires that you have 1 Gbyte RAM and 1 Gbyte swap space available on the machine.

The following disk space requirements are needed before installing the Performance Reporting Manager software and running the setup script.

• Server: The disk space requirement for the server layer can vary based on the size of the configuration you choose during setup.

  • Small configuration: The disk space requirement is 4 Gbytes. This configuration supports up to 100 agent machines that are monitoring 500 properties each.

  • Medium configuration: The disk space requirement is 12 Gbytes. This configuration supports up to 400 agent machines that are monitoring 600 properties each.

  • Large configuration: The disk space requirement is 22 Gbytes. This configuration supports up to 750 agents that are monitoring 650 properties each.

• Agent: The disk space requirement for the agent layer can vary based on the number of properties being logged and their log interval. For 1000 properties logged at five-minute intervals, the disk space requirement is approximately 80 MBytes.

• Console: 3 MBytes is the disk space requirement.

Before installing Performance Reporting Manager, you must have the following already installed and set up:

• Sun Management Center 3.0 software

• Premier Management Applications add-on software

• Config-Reader add-on software specific to your platform

• The minimum recommended Sun Management Center 3.0 patch level

You can obtain the latest Sun Management Center 3.0 patches either at http://www.sun.com/solaris/sunmanagementcenter/support_services.html, or http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/show.pl?target=patches/patch-access.

If necessary, download the patch ID specific to your operating environment and Sun Management Center 3.0 release version, as listed in the following table.

If you are not sure which version of Sun Management Center 3.0 you have installed on your system, type the following command to verify your particular build number:

# pkgparam SUNWescom VERSION

The Performance Reporting Manager add-on consists of the following packages:

• SUNWescrg: Performance Reporting Manager add-on package for Sun Management Center console layer

• SUNWessrg: Performance Reporting Manager add-on package for Sun Management Center server layer

• SUNWesarg: Performance Reporting Manager add-on package for Sun Management Center agent layer

• SUNWesdrg: Performance Reporting Manager add-on package for Sun Management Center database layer

• SUNWeslrg: Performance Reporting Manager add-on package for Sun Management Center server and console layer

• SUNWeshrg: Performance Reporting Manager online help package