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Sun Management Center 3.5 Update 1 Supplement for Halcyon PrimeAlert Agent for Linux

Introduction to the Linux Agent

The Halcyon PrimeAlert Agent for Linux is a Sun Management Center compatible agent. It is close in architecture and functionality to a Sun Management Center 2.x agent.

The Linux Agent and its modules include:

These modules are described in Module Features.

The following table list some of the features that the Linux Agent supports or that are implemented differently from other Sun Management Center 3.5 Update 1 agents. The next table lists features that are not supported by the Linux Agent.

Table 2–1 Features Supported Or Implemented Differently

Category 

Feature 

Supported functions 

Configurable alarm thresholds 

 

Agent-down alarm  

 

Host-down alarm 

 

Graphing of agent attributes  

 

History logging of agent attributes 

 

Probes for additional information (System Monitor)  

 

Online help  

Different implementation 

Starting and stopping the agent (see Starting and Stopping the Linux Agent)

 

Creating an object in the console (see To Create a Linux Object As an SNMP Ping Object)

 

Discovering an object in the console (see To Discover the Linux Object)

 

Creating an email action script when an alarm is triggered (see Configuring the Email Action Script for Alarms)

 

Reconfiguring the agent (see Reconfiguring the Linux Agent)

 

Logging (see Logging)

 

Accessing help (see Module Online Help)

 

 

Table 2–2 Features Not Supported

Category 

Features 

Core functions not supported 

Load and unload module 

 

View Logs tab in Sun Management console 

 

Applications tab in Sun Management console. Hardware diagnostics and Solaris process details not available 

 

Data views (Sun Management Center 3.x function)

 

Agent update (Sun Management Center 3.x function)

 

User-approved action scripts (Sun Management Center 3.x function)

 

Manage Job functions (also called group operations) (Sun Management Center 3.x function)

 

Hardware configuration reader (including physical and logical hardware views) from the Hardware tab of the Details window 

 

MCP (Module Configuration Propagation) 

Optional configurations not supported 

Turning off SNMPv1 and SNMPv2c 

 

Defining port range for TCP probe for setting up a firewall 

 

Configuring agent for name mode used in Network Address Translation (NAT) 

 

Encrypting the SNMP PDU (protocol data unit) 

 

Defining multiple trap hosts 

 

Audit channels for agent log file 

 

Configuring how the agent binds to the host's interface ports 

Add-on functions not supported 

Hardware Diagnostics Suite 

 

Performance Reporting Manager  

 

Advanced System Monitoring  

 

Service Availability Manager  

 

Change Manager 

 

System Reliability Manager