Sun Management Center 4.0 Installation and Configuration Guide

Preface

The Sun Management Center 4.0 Installation and Configuration Guide tells you how to install and start the Sun^TM Management Center system software.

Note –

The Solaris^TM 10 release supports systems that use the SPARC® and x86 families of processor architectures: UltraSPARC®, SPARC64, AMD64, Pentium, and Xeon EM64T. The supported systems appear in the Solaris 10 Hardware Compatibility List at http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl. This document cites any implementation differences between the platform types.

In this document the term “x86” refers to 64-bit and 32-bit systems manufactured using processors compatible with the AMD64 or Intel Xeon/Pentium product families. For supported systems, see the Solaris 10 Hardware Compatibility List.

Who Should Use This Book

This book is for system administrators who understand networking terminology and have experience working with and maintaining networks.

How This Book Is Organized

This book contains the following information:

Chapter 1, Installing Sun Management Center 4.0 describes the requirements for Sun Management Center 4.0 and how to install it for the first time.

Chapter 2, Installation Overview provides an overview of Sun Management Center 4.0 installation and licensing.

Chapter 3, Configuration Considerations provides information that should be considered before installing Sun Management Center 4.0, including security and Sun Management Center domain management approaches.

Chapter 4, Preparing Systems for Sun Management Center Upgrade and Installation provides procedures for preparing your systems before you upgrade to Sun Management Center 4.0, or install Sun Management Center 4.0.

Chapter 5, Upgrading Previous Versions of Sun Management Center on the Solaris Platform provides procedures for upgrading previous versions of Sun Management Center to Sun Management Center 4.0.

Chapter 6, Installing and Updating Agents and Installing on Microsoft Windows provides the procedures for installing and updating agents and installing Sun Management Center on Microsoft Windows.

Chapter 7, Sun Management Center Post-Installation Tasks provides the procedures for post-installation tasks such as setting up users, installing multiple agents, upgrading agents, and installing separately released add-on products.

Chapter 8, Starting and Stopping Sun Management Center provides the procedures for starting and stopping Sun Management Center.

Chapter 9, Sun Management Center Administration provides procedures for post-installation administration tasks, such as regenerating security keys, stopping and disabling the SNMP daemon, and reconfiguring port addresses.

Chapter 10, Integration With Other Enterprise Management Platform provides information that should be considered if you plan to integrate Sun Management Center with other management platforms.

Appendix A, Uninstalling Sun Management Center provides the procedures for uninstalling Sun Management Center 4.0 from the Solaris platform and the Microsoft Windows platform.

Appendix B, Using the Command Line for Uninstall, Install, and Setup provides the procedures for uninstalling, installing, and setting up Sun Management Center.

Appendix C, Determining Hardware Resources provides information for determining the hardware resources needed by Sun Management Center.

Appendix D, Network Address Translation provides information about Network Address Translation (NAT) configuration and limitations, and provides configuration examples.

Product Information

Information about this product is located at the Sun Management Center Web site at http://www.sun.com/sunmanagementcenter.

The Sun Management Center product includes open source software. To view license terms, attribution, and copyright statements for open source software included in this release, see the copyright file available in the media.

Documentation, Support, and Training

See the following web sites for additional resources:

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Training – Click the Sun link in the left navigation bar.

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Typographic Conventions

The following table describes the typographic conventions that are used in this book.

Table P–1 Typographic Conventions


Typeface	Meaning	Example
`AaBbCc123`	The names of commands, files, and directories, and onscreen computer output	Edit your `.login` file. Use `ls -a` to list all files. `machine_name% you have mail.`
`AaBbCc123`	What you type, contrasted with onscreen computer output	`machine_name%` `su` `Password:`
`aabbcc123`	Placeholder: replace with a real name or value	The command to remove a file is `rm` `filename`.
AaBbCc123	Book titles, new terms, and terms to be emphasized	Read Chapter 6 in the User's Guide. A cache is a copy that is stored locally. Do not save the file. Note: Some emphasized items appear bold online.

Shell Prompts in Command Examples

The following table shows the default UNIX® system prompt and superuser prompt for shells that are included in the Oracle Solaris OS. Note that the default system prompt that is displayed in command examples varies, depending on the Oracle Solaris release.

Table P–2 Shell Prompts


Shell	Prompt
Bash shell, Korn shell, and Bourne shell	`$`
Bash shell, Korn shell, and Bourne shell for superuser	`#`
C shell	`machine_name%`
C shell for superuser	`machine_name#`

Using UNIX Commands

This document does not contain information about basic UNIX commands and procedures such as shutting down the system, booting the system, and configuring devices.

For more information about UNIX commands and procedures, see the following documents:

Solaris Handbook for Sun Peripherals
Online documentation for the Solaris operating environment
Other software documentation that you received with your system