Managing Large Enterprises

Several facilities in Sun Management Center can help you to simplify management of large enterprises. One facility is Reference Domains, which allow groups to share management information across server contexts. Another feature is the Grouping Operations system, which facilitates performing large, highly distributed management operations.

The grouping system enables you to set data property values, and modify data property attributes. You can also load, unload, enable, and disable modules in your Sun Management Center server environment. All of these operations can be applied to a large group of managed systems and nodes. These groups can be defined using existing topology structures or flexible, discovery-style filters. Grouping operations can be saved and performed multiple times. A scheduler is available to automate grouping operations. Grouping operations also include Module Configuration Propagation (MCP), a facility in which a reference node's entire configuration can be cloned by pulling it to the server and then pushing it to all similar nodes.

For further information about Reference Domains, see Monitoring Remote Administrative Domains in Sun Management Center 3.6.1 User’s Guide. For further information about group operations, see Chapter 13, Managing Group-related Jobs, in Sun Management Center 3.6.1 User’s Guide.