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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