The Sun N1 System Manager is a system management tool that enables you to manage racks or other groupings of horizontally scaled servers using a single browser user interface. The Sun N1 System Manager browser interface provides an integrated command line interface. You can also run the same command line interface from a UNIX shell on the management server.
The Sun N1 System Manager system or N1 System Manager enables you to do the following tasks:
Discover servers on the network that can be provisioned by the N1 System Manager
Manage provisionable servers
Provision operating systems on the provisionable servers
Manage provisionable server firmware and patches
Monitor provisionable server health
Automate provisionable server configuration, recovery, and replacement
Maximize server utilization
Minimize user-visible hardware downtime
Log N1 System Manager and provisionable server events