Supplement for Workstations |
Sun Management Center 3.5 software enables you to monitor and manage supported workstations. The desktop add-on (workstation) software packages enable you to monitor and manage supported workstations.
This document describes installation and setup issues that are particular to the desktop add-on software. For information about using or installing core Sun Management Center software, see the Sun Management Center 3.5 Software User's Guide and the other documents accompanying the core product software.
The desktop add-on software includes workstation-specific packages. Installation and setup programs are provided for installing, updating, and configuring these packages. See About the Installation Process and About Setup.
Each Sun Management Center 3.5 desktop package corresponds to either a server or agent architectural layer of the Sun Management Center 3.5 core product.
There are recommended Solaris software patches available for the Sun Management Center 3.5 application. If you have a Sun service contract, you can download the patches from the following web site:
You can also download the patches from the Sun Management Center product web site:
For more information about the patches for Sun Management Center 3.5 software, refer to the Sun Management Center 3.5 Software Release Notes.
Sun Management Center 3.5 supports the following Sun workstations:
The following operating environments are supported:
Before installing the Sun Management Center 3.5 modules, make sure that the system where the module is being installed has sufficient disk space. TABLE 2 shows disk space requirements for each of the Sun Management Center 3.5 modules and for the workstation-specific modules.
The disk space estimates are subject to change. For exact requirements, refer to the Sun Management Center 3.5 Software Installation Guide.
The Sun Management Center 3.5 Software User's Guide contains complete information and procedures for installing and configuring the Sun Management Center software. Refer to this manual for more information.
Find the Sun Management Center 3.5 documentation at this URL:
You run the same Sun Management Center 3.5 installation program to install or upgrade any Sun Management Center component on any system. Following installation, you must run a setup program to configure the software properly.
The installation program provides an interactive list of questions that guides you through the installation procedure.
When you run the installation program, it checks the system hardware and software environment. If it does not find a previously installed version of Sun Management Center software, the installation program prompts you to choose whether to install the latest Sun Management Center core packages and add-on products. If the installation program finds any previously installed workgroup server packages, it prompts you to choose whether to remove those older packages and replace them with newer versions.
For complete Sun Management Center 3.5 core software installation instructions, refer to the documentation provided with your Sun Management Center 3.5 media, or consult the Sun Management Center 3.5 web site:
http://www.sun.com/sunmanagementcenter/
After the Sun Management Center 3.5 core packages and applicable add-on packages are installed, the installation program asks if you want to run the setup program.
You must run the setup program to configure the newly installed software before you can use it.
There are three possible ways to run the setup program:
1. Immediate Script Setup: If you installed the desktop modules with a terminal or shell window, you must also use the terminal or shell window for the setup program.
2. Immediate GUI Setup If you used the GUI for the installation, you must use the GUI
3. Delayed Setup: If you delay the setup, you can choose to use either the GUI or a terminal window.
You can run the setup script immediately after installation by answering Yes [y] to the installation program prompt.
You can also run the setup script later. Change to the Sun Management Center 3.5 directory /opt/SUNWsymon/sbin and type:
You can run the GUI setup program immediately after the GUI installation by selecting "Next" after the installation has finished.
You can also run the GUI setup later. Change to the Sun Management Center 3.5 directory /opt/SUNWsymon/sbin and type:
For more information about the GUI setup application, refer to the Sun Management Center 3.5 User's Guide.
The time that the setup script takes to configure newly installed Sun Management Center components depends on what components you've installed. See TABLE 3 for details.
If you are currently using a localized environment installed from a release earlier than Sun Management Center 3.0 Platform Update 4, you need to remove the older localization packages manually (see TABLE 4) before installing the newer versions included with this release. Follow the steps described below.
1. Check whether you have any localization packages listed in TABLE 4 already installed:
% pkginfo package_name package_name ... |
2. If the pkginfo command displays information for any of the localization packages without an error message, become superuser with the su - command, and remove the package(s):
# pkgrm package_name package_name ... |
To install the localization packages, perform the following steps after the installation of the English Sun Management Center 3.5 software is complete.
1. Insert the Sun Management Center 3.0 Platform Update 4 CD (2 of 3) into the CD-ROM drive.
2. Open a command window and (if you are not already superuser) become superuser by using the su - command.
3. Change to the CD-ROM directory and type the following command:
# cd /cdrom/sun_management_center_4_0 |
4. From the localization directory, type the following command to run the installation script:
# ./es-inst-l10n |
The Dynamic Reconfiguration module included in the Sun Management Center 3.5 product is not functional on workstations. You should not attempt to install this module.
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