C H A P T E R 1

Introduction

Sun Management Center software is an open, extensible system monitoring and management application that uses Java trademark software protocol and Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) to provide an integrated and comprehensive enterprise-wide management of Sun products and their subsystems, components, and peripheral devices.

The Sun Management Center User's Guide includes definitions, explanations, and diagrams that clarify the Sun Management Center architecture. Review that document whenever you have questions about how consoles, servers, agents, domains, and modules interact.

The Sun Fire high-end systems add-on software provides support for the Sun Fire high-end platforms, system controllers, and domains. The following Sun Fire high-end systems model numbers are supported in this release:

E25K

E20K

Systems containing UltraSPARC^® IV and UltraSPARC IV+ CPU/Memory boards are supported.

For the Sun Fire high-end platforms, hardware configuration information resides both on the system controllers (SCs), currently CP1500s or CP2140s, and on each of the individual platform domains. Hardware configuration information, process monitoring, and management operations for the Sun Fire high-end systems are provided by the Sun Fire high-end systems agent modules listed in TABLE 1-1:

TABLE 1-1 Sun Fire High-End Systems Agent Modules
Agent Modules	Description
Platform Config Reader (PCR)	Provides information about the hardware configuration for the entire Sun Fire high-end systems platform
Platform/Domain State Management (PDSM)	Enables an administrator to perform platform and domain management, and global dynamic reconfiguration of system boards across the platform
Domain Config Reader (DCR)	Provides the hardware configuration for Sun Fire high-end systems domains
Dynamic Reconfiguration (DR)	Enables an administrator to perform dynamic reconfiguration of boards on one domain at a time
SC Config Reader	Provides the hardware configuration for system controllers in Sun Fire high-end systems
SC Monitoring (SCM)	Monitors the System Management Services (SMS) daemons on the active system controller for Sun Fire high-end systems
SC Status	Determines whether a system controller is the main or spare system controller on Sun Fire high-end systems