Preface

The Sun Management Center 3.5 Installation and Configuration Guide provides instructions on how to install and start the Sun^TM Management Center system software.

Sun Management Center software can be deployed in two different environments:

• Production environment

• Developer environment

The Production environment is the runtime environment in which you manage and monitor your hardware, including subsystems, components, and peripheral devices.

The Developer environment is an environment in which developers can create and test customized modules for the Sun Management Center software. For more information on the Developer environment, refer to the Sun Management Center 3.5 Developer Environment Reference Manual.

Who Should Use This Book

This book is intended for use by system administrators who understand networking terminology, and who have experience working with and maintaining networks.

How This Book Is Organized

This book contains the following information:

Chapter 1, Installation Overview provides an overview of Sun Management Center 3.5 installation and licensing.

Chapter 2, Sun Management Center 3.5 Requirements provides information about compatibility with prior versions, and about system requirements.

Chapter 3, Configuration Considerations provides information that should be considered before installing Sun Management Center 3.5, including security, and Sun Management Center domain management approaches.

Chapter 4, Preparing Systems for Sun Management Center Upgrade and Installation provides procedures for preparing your systems before you upgrade to Sun Management Center 3.5, or or install Sun Management Center 3.5.

Chapter 5, Upgrading Previous Versions of SyMON and Sun Management Center on the Solaris Platform provides procedures for upgrading previous versions of Solstice SyMON^TM or Sun Management Center to Sun Management Center 3.5.

Chapter 6, Sun Management Center 3.5 Installation and Setup provides the procedures for installing and setting up Sun Management Center 3.5 on the Solaris™ platform using the graphical interface, and procedures for installing the Sun Management Center console on Microsoft Windows.

Chapter 7, Sun Management Center Post-Installation Tasks provides the procedures for post-installation tasks such as setting up users, installing multiple agents, upgrading agents, and installing separately released add-on products.

Chapter 8, Starting and Stopping Sun Management Center provides the procedures for starting and stopping Sun Management Center.

Chapter 9, Sun Management Center Administration provides procedures for post-installation administration tasks, such as regenerating security keys, stopping and disabling the SNMP daemon, and reconfiguring port addresses.

Chapter 10, Integration With Other Enterprise Management Platforms provides information that should be considered if you plan to integrate Sun Management Center with other management platforms.

Appendix A, Uninstalling SyMON and Sun Management Center provides the procedures for uninstalling Sun Management Center 3.5 from the Solaris platform and the Microsoft Windows platform.

Appendix B, Using the Command Line for Uninstall, Install, and Setup provides the procedures for uninstalling, installing, and setting up Sun Management Center.

Appendix C, Determining Hardware Resources provides information for determining the hardware resources needed by Sun Management Center.

Appendix D, Network Address Translation provides information about Network Address Translation (NAT) configuration and limitations, and provides configuration examples.

Product Information

Information about this product is available at the Sun Management Center Web site at http://www.sun.com/solaris/sunmanagementcenter.

The Sun Management Center 3.5 product includes open source software. To view license terms, attribution, and copyright statements for open source software included in this release, see the copyright file located at the following default path:

/cdrom/cdrom0/image/Webserver/Solaris_8/SUNWtcatr/install/copyright.

If you are using Solaris 9 software, substitute Solaris_9 for Solaris_8 in the path.

Using UNIX Commands

This document does not contain information about basic UNIX® commands and procedures such as shutting down the system, booting the system, and configuring devices.

For more information about UNIX commands and procedures, see the following documents:

• Solaris Handbook for Sun Peripherals

• Online documentation for the Solaris operating environment

• Other software documentation that you received with your system

Typographic Conventions

Table P–1 Typographic Conventions

Typeface	Meaning	Examples
AaBbCc123	The names of commands, files, and directories; on-screen computer output	Edit your .login file. Use ls -a to list all files. % You have mail.
AaBbCc123	What you type, when contrasted with on-screen computer output	% su Password:
AaBbCc123	Book titles, new words or terms, words to be emphasized      Command-line variable: replace with a real name or value	Read Chapter 6 in the User's Guide. These are called class options. You must be superuser to do this.   To delete a file, type rm filename.

Shell Prompts

Table P–2 Shell Prompts

Shell	Prompt
C shell	machine_name%
C shell superuser	machine_name#
Bourne shell and Korn shell	$
Bourne shell and Korn shell superuser	#
Microsoft DOS, Microsoft Windows	c:\

Related Documentation

For details on Sun Management Center 3.5 documentation and related Sun Management Center hardware platform documentation, refer to the Sun Management Center 3.5 Software Release Notes.

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