The Sun Management Center validation tool es-validate checks and verifies installation and setup information after the software has been installed on your system. The tool is automatically installed when you install any of the base component layers.
es-validate provides the following information, which is based on the parameters you use:
The version of the Sun Management Center base product installed on the local host
The Sun Management Center base component layers installed on the host
Whether the production environment or developer environment has been installed
A list of all Sun Management Center base packages installed on the host
A list of all Sun Management Center add-on packages and the version of each installed on the host
The Sun Management Center base installation directory (BASEDIR)
The Sun Management Center patch IDs that have been installed
The Solaris operating environment version
The disk space used by the Sun Management Center installation
The validation tool also checks functional aspects of your system, including the following items:
Confirms whether the products installed on your system are compatible
Checks whether the Sun Management Center base product and add-on products have been set up
Checks whether the Sun Management Center database is functional
Confirms whether the Sun Management Center Web server is running
Displays all agents in the server context of the current Sun Management Center server, and also checks for agent connections in the server context
Confirms whether the command-line interface is functional
The syntax for the es-validate command is as follows:
es-validate [-s server [-r serverport] [-u user-name [-p password ]]] [-a agenthost [-b agentport] [-d]] [-c] [-o outfile]The following table describes the es-validate parameters.
Table 7–1 es-validate Options
Option |
Modifying Options |
Description |
---|---|---|
-a |
agenthost |
Check connectivity with agent host machine agenthost. |
-b |
agentport |
The SNMP port number associated with agentport. |
-c |
|
Show all the agents in the context of the Sun Management Center server specified with -s option. |
-d |
|
Show the version number of the agent on agenthost. |
-o |
outfile |
Store the output of es-validate in file outfile. outfile should be an absolute file path. The default is an arbitrary file name in /tmp. |
-p |
password |
The password for -uuser-name If not specified, and -uuser-name is specified, you are prompted for the password. |
-r |
serverport |
The Sun Management Center RMI port number. If not specified, port 2099 is used. |
-s |
server |
The Sun Management Center server host name. If not specified, the current host is used. |
-u |
user-name |
The user name used to connect with the Sun Management Center server. The -u user name parameter is mandatory for login checks. |