Sun N1 System Manager Features

The Sun N1 System Manager is a system management tool that enables you to discover and subsequently manage racks of servers or other groupings of horizontally scaled servers using a single browser user interface. In this manual, the term manageable server is used for a server that the N1 System Manager network can access, but the N1 System Manager has not yet discovered. A managed server is a server that has been successfully discovered by the N1 System Manager and is subsequently managed by the N1 System Manager.

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

• Provision operating systems

• Manage firmware and patches

• Monitor server health

• Automate server configuration and recovery

• Maximize server utilization

• Minimize user-visible hardware downtime

• Log N1 System Manager and server events