Sun Management Center 3.6.1 Installation and Configuration Guide

Sun Management Center Requirements

The following table provides a summary of Sun Management Center 3.6.1 requirements.

Note –

Some hardware platform config readers (add-ons) do not work on all layers of Sun Management Center when installed on Solaris 10.

For specific information about determining the total amount of resources needed, see Appendix C, Determining Hardware Resources.

Table 1–3 Sun Management Center 3.6.1 System Requirements


Base Layer	Operating System	Disk Space	RAM	Swap
Server (SPARC)	Solaris 8, Solaris 9, and Solaris 10 Solaris Developer Software Group installation	800 Mbytes total: 300 Mbytes in `/opt`, 500 Mbytes in `/var/opt`	512 Mbytes minimum 1 Gbyte recommended for small to large servers 2 Gbytes recommended for extra-large servers.	1 Gbyte recommended
Agent (SPARC)	Solaris 7, Solaris 8, Solaris 9, and Solaris 10 releases	18 Mbytes per agent in `/opt/SUNWsymon`. 2 Mbytes per agent in `/var/opt/SUNWsymon`.	10 to 29 Mbytes per agent depending on modules loaded and system type
Agent (x86)	Solaris 9 and Solaris 10	18 Mbytes per agent in `/opt/SUNWsymon`. 2 Mbytes per agent in `/var/opt/SUNWsymon`.	10 to 29 Mbytes per agent depending on modules loaded and system type
Agent (Linux) on x86	RedHat Linux Enterprise 2.1 - 3.0 (32–bit and 64–bit), Sun Java^TM Desktop System 2.x, SUSE Linux Enterprise 8.0 (32–bit and 64–bit), SUSE Professional 9 (32–bit and 64–bit)	18 Mbytes per agent in `/opt/SUNWsymon`. 2 Mbytes per agent in `/var/opt/SUNWsymon`.	10 to 29 Mbytes per agent depending on modules loaded and system type
Java Console	Solaris 7, Solaris 8, Solaris 9, and Solaris 10 releases	Solaris platform: 62 Mbytes	Solaris platform: 256 Mbytes	Solaris platform: 130 Mbytes
	Microsoft Windows NT SP 4 or later, Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional, Microsoft Windows XP	Microsoft Windows platform: 35 Mbytes	Microsoft Windows platform: 256 Mbytes	Microsoft Windows platform: 768 Mbytes
	Linux 2.4.21 kernel or higher	62 Mbytes	256 Mbytes	130 Mbytes

The default maximum heap size for the console and server is 64 Mbytes each.

Java console does not install jar files for add-ons.

You can customize the maximum heap size for the console and server as described in Starting Components Using es-start.