Environmental Strategies

Your organization might have several logical environments whose locations and resources overlap, but whose logical functions are distinct. Logical environments include corporate groups such as sales versus engineering, functional groups such as retail versus institutional, and even logical software environments such as user acceptance versus production.

In all of these cases, consider producing separate Sun Management Center topology groups that isolate the elements of each group. Separate topology groups prevent problems in one group from raising alarms in another group. This isolation is particularly important when configuring the Sun Management Center environment for systems that include multi-domain servers. The different domains might be performing functions for completely different groups or environments. The inclusion of the different domains in a single topology group could result in misleading information and alarm notifications.