Sun Microsystems Sun Fire V440 Diagnostics And Troubleshooting Manual page 56

Informal Tracking
Sun Management Center agent software must be loaded on any server you want to
monitor. However, the product lets you informally track a supported platform even
when the agent software has not been installed on it. In this case, you do not have
full monitoring capability, but you can add the server to a list in the Sun
Management Center interface, have Sun Management Center periodically check
whether the server is up and running, and notify you if the server stops responding.
Add-On Diagnostic Suite
The Hardware Diagnostic Suite is available as a premium package you can purchase as
an add-on to the Sun Management Center product. This suite lets you exercise a
system while it is still up and running in a production environment. See "Exercising
the System Using the Hardware Diagnostic Suite" on page 42 for more information.
Report Generation Tool
The Performance Reporting Manager is a Sun Management Center add-on that allows
you to create reports detailing the status of your machines. The tool generates report
data on performance, hardware, configurations, software packages, patches, and
alarms for an arbitrary subset of managed systems in your data center.
Interoperability With Third-Party Monitoring Tools
If you administer a heterogeneous network and use a third-party network-based
system monitoring or management tool, you may be able to take advantage of Sun
Management Center software's support for Tivoli Enterprise Console, BMC Patrol,
and HP Openview.
Who Should Use Sun Management Center?
Sun Management Center software is geared primarily toward system administrators
who have large data centers to monitor or other installations that have many
computer platforms to monitor. If you administer a more modest installation, you
need to weigh Sun Management Center software's benefits against the requirement
of maintaining a significant database (typically over 700 Mbytes) of system status
information.
38 Sun Fire V440 Server Diagnostics and Troubleshooting Guide • July 2003