Sun Management Center Server Context and Security

A server context is a collection of Sun Management Center agents and the particular server layer to which the agents are connected. The agents and hosts within a server context share a single set of the following central components:

• Sun Management Center server

• Topology manager

• Event manager

• Trap handler

• Configuration manager

Every Sun Management Center component or agent is configured at installation to know the location of its trap handlers and event managers. Sun Management Center software identifies the trap handlers and the event managers by their IP and port addresses. To determine whether you are within your server context, you need to know the respective IP and port addresses of the servers that you access. Different server contexts have different port numbers.

A remote server context refers to a collection of remote agents and a particular server layer with which the remote agents are associated.

An agent receives security configuration from the server layer. This information enables the agent to authenticate the management request that is sent to the agent. Then, the agent can perform access control on the requested operation as part of the management request.