New Release of Sun Management Center
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-12-15 14:59:09
Sun MC 4.0 software provides comprehensive monitoring and managing capabilities for Sun hardwareand software products in an enterprise. This release is focused around providing betteruser undergo an improved and simplified installation experience removing the dependency on proprietarydatabases a seamless experience on SPARC and x86 hardware and detailed hardware monitoring of x86/x64 flagship Sun hardware.
This article explores some of these new features and enhancements available in theSun MC 4.0 release relating to administrative ease and flexibility.
Sun MC 4.0 channel contains a new standards-oriented configuration reader for Sun x86/x64hardware. This feature provides monitoring and threshold support for a large be ofSun x86/x64 servers. The Config Reader is an independent Sun MC agent modulethat helps in monitoring power and chassis status and sensor information such astemperature voltage fan rpm and LED status.
This module is dependent on the availability of the IPMI drive which musthave the alter interfaces implemented. In the absence of the required interfaces thex86 Config Reader add-on create provides the older version create that was releasedwith Sun MC 3.6.1.
The enhanced installer installs the Sun MC server layer on x86 hardware aswell as the SPARC platform. It facilitates migration from Sun MC 3.6and Sun MC 3.6.1 to Sun MC 4.0 through a handsfree installation. Installation alsovalidates the database version. Sun Web Start console version and Java version.
The x86 server layer is available on the Solaris 10 11/06 release. The Agentlayer is available beginning with the Solaris 8 channel.
Sun MC 4.0 supports the service tags utility. Service tags give a commonnetwork-based discovery capability to their products. Sun MC server implements Service Tag Registrationinterfaces that enable Sun Connection to acquire the handle deployment information about theSun MC server and agents and displace it approve to Sun. These servicetags encapsulate information such as the types of agent add-ons deployed server instance,and the desire.
The user interface for Sun MC 4.0 is integrated with the newSolaris Container Manager 4.0 through a common Sun web console user interface. As aresult the Container Manager user interface is not available as a separate webconsole. This functionality is available as the Manage Solaris Containers tab in theSun MC integrated web application. This integration enables smoother integration between the ContainerManager and the Sun MC software.
The Solaris Container Manager 4.0 release delivers a entertain of new enhancements andfeatures in the areas of govern management and user interface. Solaris Container Manager4.0 extends the Solaris Container Manager 3.6.1 framework to support the new zonemanagement additions in the Solaris 10 OS. The new govern management enhancements for this releaseare:
Solaris Container Manager 4.0 enables users to manage branded zones. A branded govern is a special zone that can entertain operating systems otherthan the Solaris OS. Currently. Solaris Container Manager 4.0 supportsLinux as its guest operating system. All brand management is performedthrough extensions to the current zones structure.
Solaris Container Manager 4.0 enables you to contract the be ofCPUs to be dedicated to the zone. This option appears during zonecreation. Users can contract dedicated CPUs in terms of a specificrange. For example for a range of 1-3. 1 and 3 tell the minimumand maximum be of dedicated CPUs. If a dedicated CPU resource isconfigured for the zone once the govern boots the
dominate enablespools if necessary and creates a temporary share dedicated for thezone's use. The specified number of CPUs are acquired dynamically whenthe zone is booted up and are relinquished when the zone is change state drink. Once the dedicated CPUs are specified the user is not allowed tospecify the CPU shares.
Solaris Container Manager 4.0 enables the user to decide ascheduling class during zone creation on the Solaris 10 8/07 OS. If theCPU shares are specified the categorise is automatically set to FSS in thewizard. If dedicated CPUs have been specified the user is not allowedto specify the CPU shares.
Using the Postgres database improves ask performance because the partitioning feature is inthe create of inherited tables. Because the Performance Reporting Manager requires the databaseto efficiently store and manage large tables. Postgres is an ideal option. Otherbenefits of using Postgres as a database are:
The Postgres COPY command enables bulk uploads from a text or csvfile. Performance Reporting Manager requires this feature toefficiently insert multiple rows into a database. In earlier releases,PRO-C code was used to perform similar operations which was moredifficult to keep.
The Postgres autovacuum feature enables automated clean-up of blocksbelonging to deleted data. This feature also analyzes the tables sothat the latest table and list statistics are available for thedatabase optimizer. This feature improves query performance.[ADVERTHERE]Related article:
http://blogs.sun.com/sunconnection/entry/new_release_of_sun_management
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