Sun Management Center 3.6.1 Installation and Configuration Guide

Supported Platforms

For the latest information on supported hardware platforms, see the Sun Management Center Web site at http://www.sun.com/sunmanagementcenter.

Sun Management Center uses modules to monitor and manage the resources of systems, applications, and network devices. The module defines a collection of objects to be monitored by the agent. The Config-Reader module is required for hardware configuration information.

The following table provides examples of supported platforms for Sun Management Center and its add-ons.

Table 2–2 Examples of Supported Platforms

Operating System 

Sun Management Center Layers 

Example Hardware 

Solaris (SPARC) 

Agent, console, server, add-ons 


Note –

Some add-ons are platform-specific.


  • Small server

    Agents: 1 to 250 nodes

    Processor: Single 550/650 MHz UltraSPARC® IIi processor or higher

    Memory: 1 GB RAM or higher

    Examples: Sun Fire V100/V120

  • Medium server

    Agents: 250 to 500 nodes

    Processor: Single 1.5 GHz UltraSPARC® IIIi processor or higher

    Memory: 2 GB RAM or higher

    Examples: Sun Blade 1500

  • Large server:

    Agents: 500 to 750 nodes

    Processor: Two 1.34 GHz UltraSPARC® IIIi processors or higher

    Memory: 2 GB RAM or higher

    Examples: Sun Fire V210/V240, Sun Blade 2500

  • Extra-large server:

    Agents: 750 to 1000 nodes

    Processor: Four 1.28 GHz/1.5 GHz UltraSPARC® IIIi processors or higher

    Memory: 2 GB RAM or higher

    Examples: Sun Fire V440/V480/V490

Solaris (SPARC) 

Agent, console, add-ons 


Note –

Some add-ons are platform-specific.


  • SPARCStation 1/ 2/ 5/10/ 20

  • Ultra 1/450

  • Sun Blade 100/1000

  • Netra AC200/1120/1125/1400/1405

  • Sun Enterprise 150/3000/4000/ 5000/6000

  • Sun Ultra Enterprise 150/3000/4000/5000

  • Sun Fire 280R/V880/3800/4800/4810/6800/15000

  • SPARCcenter® 2000/2000E/1000/1000E

Solaris (x86), Linux 

Agent, console, some add-ons 

  • Sun Fire V60x/V65x

  • Sun Fire V20z

  • Sun Fire V40z

Solaris, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP 

Console layer and some add-ons 

 

Pentium 233 MHz or better 

The Config-Reader and the Dynamic Reconfiguration modules are not supported on all Sun hardware platforms. However, all other base Sun Management Center modules are supported on Sun hardware platforms.

For more information on base modules, refer to the Sun Management Center 3.6.1 User’s Guide.