Important Changes in Sun Management Center 3.5 Software

Version 3.5 of the Sun Management Center product includes the following significant changes:

• You can install Sun Management Center software and add-on products through a graphical user interface (GUI). For information about installing the software, see “Sun Management Center 3.5 Installation and Setup” in Sun Management Center 3.5 Installation and Configuration Guide.

• You can set up Sun Management Center software either as part of the GUI-based installation process or through a separate GUI. For information about setting up the software, see “Sun Management Center 3.5 Installation and Setup” in Sun Management Center 3.5 Installation and Configuration Guide.

• You can install and upgrade multiple agents through a standard mechanism. See “Creating Agent-Update Images” in Sun Management Center 3.5 Installation and Configuration Guide for more details.

• You can run the server and agent software on a machine that has multiple IP addresses. For more information, see “Configuring Server and Agent on Multi-IP Machines” in Sun Management Center 3.5 Installation and Configuration Guide.

• Security enhancements include support for firewalls and NAT configurations. For more information, see Sun Management Center 3.5 Installation and Configuration Guide.

• The group operations feature has been replaced with the Manage Jobs feature. For information about this feature, see Chapter 13, Managing Group-related Jobs.

• The Premier Management Applications (PMA) product has been integrated into the base product. Functionality for managing jobs, importing and exporting topology, and dataviews is now included in the base product.

• Many bugs have been fixed in this release.