Category Archive: Sun Management Center

Feb 25 2007

Sun Tech Days Hyderabad

This is in continuation of my first day’s summary of Sun Tech Days Hyderabad. Based on the interest we have seen for T2000, we wanted to get some printouts of this brochure on T2000. Satish called me on the night of 21st and I could get 400 copies of this brochure printed by a local …

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Feb 21 2007

Sun Tech Days Hyderabad: What a Start!

Wow! Thats the word that came to my mind when I saw the keynote hall of Sun Tech Days – Hyderabad event at Hyderabad International Convention Center this morning. By 8.00am this place is so alive both in terms of excitement level and spectacular visual appeal. Located in the premises of the Novotel hotel, this …

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Feb 13 2007

Sun Management Center: Performance Reporting Manager

Earlier in the day, I blogged about electric meters that gather data. How do you extrapolate this concept to the Computer Systems arena? Electric meters that collect raw data over a period of time are similar to agents that collect data from target systems. Once this data is collected, it should be stored at a …

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Dec 16 2006

Vizag Trip Summary

On Monday and Tuesday I spent my time in Vizag, visiting Andhra University. We had a decent time given with Vice Chancellor, Principals of the colleges and Heads of some key departments. The entire discussion is centered around the benefits of using Open Source products and Sun’s key role in the opensource community. We talked …

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Oct 30 2006

Solaris10 Free Licenses Hit 6M Mark

The free licenses of Solaris 10 hit 6million mark now. How do you manage Solaris10′s key features? Use Sun Management Center. This whitepaper discusses the Solaris 10 management features in Sun Management Center 3.6.

Oct 29 2006

Generating MIB for a multi-instance module

I recently posted about the MIB generation for a Sun Management Center module. This post is in continuation with that article. You can load multiple instances of certain modules into Sun Management Centrer Agent. For example, if you have multiple database instances running on the system, you may want to run one Sun Management Center …

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Oct 12 2006

Creating a MIB for a Sun Management Center Module

Here is a quick tutorial on how to create an SNMP MIB for a Sun Management Center Module. This process helps when you already have a Sun Management Center Module running on the agent and you want to expose the ASN.1 MIB interface for this module. Load Module Load the module into an agent on …

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Aug 23 2006

Sun Management Center: Agent Information from Engine ID

Sun Management Center agent logs often have log entries that contain SNMP Engine IDs. The engine ID would look like 0:0:4:da:40:81:9e:e5:df:0:a1:0 The way to determine the target’s IP address from engine id is as follows. Take the 6th, 7th, 8th and 9th fields of the engine id. From the above example, take 0:0:4:da:40:81:9e:e5:df:0:a1:0. This string …

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