Sun Management Center 3.5 Update 1 supports a new add-on, the N1TM Grid Console - Container Manager 1.0. This product manages containers, which can be used to give an application dedicated amounts of system resources. Containers are useful in a server-consolidated environment where multiple applications share the same system. The main features include the following:
Container creation, deletion, and modification
Application performance monitoring
Process tracking in the container
Scheduling changes to the container to fit changing resource needs
Alarm setting to manage the application proactively
Application usage accounting data for billing