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Ever wanted to know about the system management tools in solaris, that are used to partition disks, add new users either to the hosts or to the different naming domains, view logs, system information, Resource controls etc.., then this is for you. This blog briefs about the different products that are used for the system management in solaris10 in simple terminology, for detailed information follow the links given in each tool.

WBEM

This is the acronym for Web Based Enterprise Management, which is an industry defined set of management and Internet standard technologies developed to unify the management of enterprise computing environments. This is the backend for managing the Solaris box.
In WBEM's terminology each and every managed resource like disk, user, projects, printer, network etc.. will be treated as an object called CIM(Common Interface Model), and through CIM schema defines different attributes and the operations that can be performed on the resources. Providers are written for these resources according to the schema. Since the schema is universally accepted and published, the front end tools can be written without bothering about the provider implementation. more...

SMC

This is the acronym for Solaris Management Console. This is a single login place holder for all the management applications in Solaris, so that applications need not worry about the GUI development, login module etc.. With SMC application developers just have to worry about the way of taking inputs from the user & presenting them with the data from the WBEM server. There are tools to compile and register the application with the SMC console. This tool is tightly coupled with WBEM. more...

Java Web Console

This is a newly developed web based console infrastructure tool for all the management applications in solaris. This has much more advanced features compared to SMC and it is not coupled with WBEM.
Till version 2.x this is based on JATO framework and from Java Web Console3.x it is been moved to JSF framework. Also developing User interface is much simpler compared to applications on SMC. more...