Additional Add-on Products

Depending on the hardware platform on which you are installing Sun Management Center software, your system might require additional platform-specific add-ons. The add-on products provide additional functionality such as additional support for specific Sun hardware architectures, configuration readers, and new agent management. For information about a specific hardware platform, see the Sun Management Center supplement for your hardware platform. For information about additional add-ons for Sun Management Center, see the Sun Management Center Web site.

You should always read your Sun Management Center supplement for architecture-specific installation instructions before installing Sun Management Center software on a particular hardware platform. Refer to the documentation subdirectory on the Sun Management Center 3.5 CD (2 of 2).

Add-on products are released in one of two ways:

• As part of the Sun Management Center distribution (CD or Web download image)

• Separately (add-on product only)

Add-on products released as part of the Sun Management Center distribution are installed during the installation process. The basic components are installed first, followed by installation of the add-on products.

Many add-on products offer architecture-specific support. Therefore, the installation checks your hardware. For example, if an add-on product supports workstation systems, you are given the opportunity to install the workstation add-on when you install Sun Management Center on a workstation host. In most cases, user confirmation is required prior to installing an add-on product.

If the add-on product is released separately from the Sun Management Center CD distribution, the add-on product includes its own installation instructions in the accompanying supplement.