Monitoring The System Using Sun Management Center; How Sun Management Center Works; Table 6-8 What Sun Management Center Software Monitors - Sun Microsystems Sun Fire V490 Administration Manual

For instructions on using RSC software to monitor a Sun Fire V490 system, refer to
"How to Monitor the System Using the System Controller and RSC Software" on
page 190.
Monitoring the System Using Sun Management
Center
Sun Management Center software provides enterprise-wide monitoring of Sun
servers and workstations, including their subsystems, components, and peripheral
devices. The system being monitored must be up and running, and you need to
install all the proper software components on various systems in your network.
Sun Management Center lets you monitor the following on the Sun Fire V490 server.
What Sun Management Center
TABLE 6-8
Item Monitored
Disk drives
Fan trays
CPU/Memory boards
Power supplies
System temperature

How Sun Management Center Works

The Sun Management Center product comprises three software entities:
Agent components
■
Server component
■
Monitor components
■
You install agents on systems to be monitored. The agents collect system status
information from log files, device trees, and platform-specific sources, and report
that data to the server component.
Software Monitors
What Sun Management Center Reveals
Whether each slot has a drive present, and whether it reports
OK status
Whether the fan trays report OK status
The presence of a CPU/Memory board, the temperature
measured at each processor, and any thermal warning or failure
conditions
Whether each bay has a power supply present, and whether it
reports OK status
System ambient temperature as measured at several locations in
the system, as well as any thermal warning or failure conditions
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