Harshit.Kalley@sun.com: Harshit's web log

Sun Management Center (SunMC) has been offering detailed Hardware monitoring of Sun Sparc hardware forever through Hardware ConfigReaders. ConfigReaders provide physical and logical view (walk through) of hardware. It also monitors device states and generates alarm on various thresholds.

In the past few years Sun grew its hardware portfolio with X64 (AMD and INTEL) servers running Solaris and Linux and so did SunMC by providing monitoring capabilities on X86/X64 Solaris and Linux. While there was nothing to match hardware monitoring capabilities of SunMC on Sun Sparc Solaris, it did not offer much on X86/X64 hardware. Finally wait seems to be over. The SunMC.next version promises to have ConfigReader for X86 HW on Solaris, RedHat and SuSE. This ConfigReader uses IPMI to pull the information from services processor. At this point of time it uses in-band OS monitoring. In future it will not be hard to extend it to proxy remote HW.

Here I am posting a few screen shots from the early access version of X64/X86 ConfigReader.

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SunTech days was held at Hyderabad from 21st Feb to 23rd Feb. Close to 10000 people from different walk of life attended the event. A majority of them were developers and students. Event was intended to take Sun's technology to grass root level through talks and demo booths. It was imminent that the event was huge success and large number attendees got an opportunity to know about Sun.

I got an opportunity to talk about "System Management in a Solaris Environment". It was quite an experience talking in a huge auditorium in front of large audience which included some best in the business. We also had a demo booth showcasing two T2000 servers and SunMC (Sun Management Center). One of the T2000 servers was left open for people to see the internals of the box. It was quite interesting for most of them to be able to remove the components and see so closely. On the second T2000 we were running SunMC, demonstrating System management capabilities of the product. In SunMC demo, of particular interest were, HW config reader (physical and logical view of the system), detailed OS monitoring capabilities, container/pool/zone management and reporting capabilities.

HW Config readers allow users to see various views of the HW (front, rear, side etc) and on mouse over shows details of various components. It is of great use in the remote system management and learning the HW.

SunMC does detailed OS monitoring by observing key kernel parameters and HW parameters, process details, file system monitoring etc. It also does active alarm management.

It has so far unique ability to create resource pools, zones, projects on many systems and dynamically modifying it. It can copy, delete, start, stop a zone. In the latest release, it has capability to migrate a zone along with its data to many systems.

SunMC has ability to generate detailed reports on various parameters it monitors. It has predefined and customizable report generation.

More information about SunMC is available at
http://www.sun.com/software/products/sunmanagementcenter/
More documentation is available at
http://www.sun.com/software/products/sunmanagementcenter/

Sun is going to showcase its core technologies on Solaris and Java at Sun Techdays in Hyderabad from Feb 21 to Feb 23 2007. More details about the event are the following link
http://www.sercononline.com/suntechdays07/ms/Home.htm

Among many interesting technologies there will be demostration of Sun Management Center (SunMC 3.6.1). It is a very popular system monitoring SW particularly for Sun Solaris HW. More information about the product is available at http://www.sun.com/software/products/sunmanagementcenter/

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How to configure an interface which was not configured during installation

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