Discover Provisionable Servers to Manage

Before you can manage the provisionable servers, the N1 System Manager must know they exist and be able to access them. The discovery process enables you to add the servers to the N1 System Manager and group them based on your business or organizational needs. You access the discovery process through the Discover button (browser interface) or the discover command.

Once discovered, the provisionable servers are displayed in the System Dashboard tab in the browser interface or by using the show server all command. You can perform the following management tasks on the provisionable servers from the N1 System Manager browser interface or command line:

• Power management (booting, power on, power off)

• Event notification

• Monitoring (setting thresholds and polling)

• OS installations

• Firmware update installations

• OS update installations (Solaris packages and patches and RedHat RPMs)

See Discovering Servers in Sun N1 System Manager 1.1 Administration Guide for more details.