Sun Management Center 3.6.1 Release Notes

Chapter 3 Late-Breaking News

This chapter includes information on new features that arrived too late to be included in the Sun Management Center 3.6.1 documentation set.

This chapter contains the following sections.

Platforms No Longer Supported

Starting with this release, the platforms listed in Table 3–1 are no longer supported by the corresponding add-on software.

If you want to use Sun Management Center software with these platforms, you must use an earlier version. If you want to use the software with these platforms with the Solaris 10 Operating System, minimum requirements are:


Note –

The Sun Fire V1280 is no longer supported by the Netra add-on software with Sun Management Center 3.6 software. Instead, use the add-on software for Sun Fire entry-level midrange systems or an earlier version of the software.


Table 3–1 Unsupported Platforms Starting With Version 3.6

Add-On Software 

Platforms No Longer Supported 

Netra 

Netra T1/X1 series 

Sun Fire V1280 — Use instead add-on software for Sun Fire entry-level midrange systems 

Starfire (Sun Enterprise 10000) 

Entire add-on no longer supported 

Sun Enterprise 3x00/4x00/5x00/6x00 and SPARCserver 2000 (x is a variable)

Entire add-on no longer supported 

Sun Fire B1600 with server blades B200x/B100x/B100s

Entire add-on no longer supported 

Sun Fire Link 

Entire add-on no longer supported 

Workgroup Servers 

Sun Enterprise 450/420R/250/220R/10/5/2 

Sun Filer N8400/N8200 

Sun Ultra 450/250/10/5/2/1 

Workstations 

Sun Ultra 80/60/30 

Sun Systems Supported by Sun Management Center 3.6.1

The following table lists the Sun systems supported by Sun Management Center 3.6.1.

Table 3–2 Sun Systems Supported by Sun Management Center 3.6.1

System Type 

Model 

CoolThreadsTM Servers

Sun Fire T1000 

 

Sun Fire T2000 

Sun Fire Entry-level Servers 

Sun Fire V100 

 

Sun Fire V120 

 

Sun Fire V210 

 

Sun Fire V240 

 

Sun Fire V250 

 

Sun Fire V440 

 

Sun Fire 280R 

Sun Fire Midrange and High-end Servers 

Sun Fire V490/V480 

 

Sun Fire V890/V880 

 

Sun Fire E2900/V1280 

 

Sun Fire E4900 

 

Sun Fire E6900 

 

Sun Fire E25K/E20K 

 

Sun Fire 15K/12K 

 

Sun Fire 6800/4810/4800/3800 

Carrier-Grade Servers  

Netra 1290 [Need to download Sun Management Center 3.6 Version 3 Add-on Software. See Support for Netra 1290 Systems Available in Release 3.6 Version 3 for more information.]

 

Netra 1280 

 

Netra 120 

 

Netra 210  

 

Netra 240  

 

Netra 440 

 

Netra 20 

 

Netra t 1120/1125 

 

Netra t 1400/1405 

Desktop 

Sun Ultra 45 

 

Sun Blade 100 

 

Sun Blade 150 

 

Sun Blade 1000 

 

Sun Blade 1500 

 

Sun Blade 2000 

 

Sun Blade 2500 

UltraSparc IV+ CPU/Memory boards are supported on the following platforms:

Support for Netra 1290 Systems Available in Release 3.6 Version 3

Support for Netra 1290 systems is available in the recently released Sun Management Center 3.6 Version 3 Add-On Software for Sun Fire Entry-Level Midrange Systems.


Note –

Even if you have previously installed the release 3.6 Version 3 add-on software, you must install it again after installing the core 3.6.1 software.

For information about installing this add-on software with the core Sun Management Center 3.6.1 software, refer to Installing Sun Management Center 3.6 Version 3 Add-On Software for Sun Fire Entry-Level Midrange Systems: Required for Netra 1290 Systems.

For information about installing this add-on software later, after installing the core Sun Management Center 3.6.1 software, refer to the Sun Management Center 3.6 Version 3 Add-On Software Release Notes for Sun Fire Entry-Level Midrange Systems and follow the instructions in the section “Updating From Sun Management Center 3.6 Software,” replacing references to the core Sun Management Center 3.6 software with “3.6.1.” The release notes document is available at http://docs.sun.com/.


Availability of Fault Manager Event Service in Solaris 10 Update 3

Sun Management Center 3.6.1 allows modules to subscribe to and receive fault events occurring on the Fault Manager Daemon (FMD).

Sun Management Center FM Event Service is available with Solaris 10 Update 3 for agent module writers. The service relies on Sun Management Center FM Plugin which will be made available as part of Solaris 10 Update 3.