Introduction

Sun Management Center 3.5 software is an open, extensible system monitoring and management application that uses Java software protocol and Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) to provide an integrated and comprehensive enterprise-wide management of Sun products and their subsystems, components, and peripheral devices.

The add-on Sun Fire 15K/12K packages provide support for the Sun Fire 15K/12K platforms, system controllers, and domains. For the Sun Fire 15K/12K platforms, hardware configuration information resides on both system controllers (SCs), currently CP 1500s, and on each of the individual platform domains (up to 18 for the Sun Fire 15K system and up to 9 for the Sun Fire 12K system). Hardware configuration information, process monitoring, and management operations for the Sun Fire 15K/12K systems are provided by the Sun Fire 15K/12K agent modules listed in TABLE 1-1:

TABLE 1-1 Sun Fire 15K/12K Agent Modules

Agent Modules	Description
Platform Config Reader (PCR)	Provides information about the hardware configuration for the entire Sun Fire 15K/12K platform
Platform/Domain State Management (PDSM)	Enables an administrator to perform platform and domain management, and global dynamic reconfiguration of system boards across the platform
Domain Config Reader (DCR)	Provides the hardware configuration for Sun Fire 15K/12K domains
Dynamic Reconfiguration (DR)	Enables an administrator to perform dynamic reconfiguration of boards on one domain at a time
SC Config Reader	Provides the hardware configuration for the Sun Fire 15K/12K system controllers
SC Monitoring (SCM)	Monitors the System Management Services (SMS) daemons on the active Sun Fire 15K/12K system controller
SC Status	Determines whether a Sun Fire 15K/12K system controller is the main or spare system controller

Refer to Chapter 1 of the Sun Management Center 3.5 User's Guide, which includes definitions, explanations, and diagrams that clarify the Sun Management Center architecture. Review that chapter whenever you have questions about how consoles, servers, agents, domains, and modules interact.