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" Event and alarm management, using complex rules and alarm limits to
automate diagnosis, provide ongoing status information, and immediately
notify administrators of significant events via the console, email, pagers, etc.
" Automated management of common administrative tasks, easing the burden of
everyday administration
" Domain-aware agents, allowing dynamic system domains on high-end Sun
servers to be monitored independently
" Topology views, showing a hierarchical topological map of the objects being
managed, quickly familiarizing administrators with the Sun elements in the
environment. A discovery process automatically builds the topology view,
which can be divided into several administrative domains for distributed
management.
" Physical views, displaying photo-realistic images of hardware components
and relevant information such as network interface types, disk types,
processor module speeds, etc. Components with associated events are
highlighted, allowing administrators to easily identify areas of interest.
" Logical views, showing a hierarchical tree of managed hosts, including all
related hardware, dynamic system domains, storage, and operating system
components, and highlighting any components with associated events
" Graph views, displaying CPU, memory, disk, and network performance
metrics
" Per-process display that extracts specific information on process resource
usage and behavior, allowing an administrator to monitor the load an
application imposes on the system
" Application monitoring, allowing administrators to check the health and
performance of application processes, to examine and parse log files for
recurring problems and particular status messages, and to monitor
application files and directory statistics
" The Sun Management Center Developer Environment, enabling organizations to
design, develop, and integrate third-party applications, tools, and
customized solutions based on the Sun MC framework
