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SunMC 3.6.1 Forwarding events / alarms to 3rd party product.

573 byte By Lewis.Wilsona at 2007-11-27 11:49:29
Hi, I've been assigned the task of creating an integration between SunMC and our business service dashboard. I understand that i can use SNMP traps to forward the events to an SNMP manager but i was wondering if there was an API or exposed web service that would allow me to interact with the ...

Process monitoring task manager

642 byte By phler2a at 2007-11-27 11:44:24
Trying to add a process to be monitored on all machines,i'm stuck at the task manager :new task-> Table Module-> Process Monitoring->Add Linenow i have to enterNameargv pattern etc...but all fields are mandatory on this windowsthough argv shouldn't and user spec neither my process doesn't have ...

smc 3.6.1 and process monitoring

432 byte By raf1a at 2007-11-27 11:12:29
Hello,I would like to monitor the following process with SMC :# ps -ef | grep -i ora oracle 21851 0Jul 12 ?0:00 /appli/oracle/bin/tnslsnr LISTENER -inheritIn the process monitoring module, i add the following row :Entry Name : tnslsnrName Pattern:Argv Pattern:User specification:But the process ...

RMAN problem while backing up SunMC-3.6.1 online

2472 byte By zhassana at 2007-11-27 11:01:17
Hi Geeks,I am having trouble while online backing up SunMC(3.6.1) running on Solaris10 (11/06).The exact error message in log file is++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++Started /opt/SUNWsymon/sbin/es-backup at Thu Jul 19 14:03:41 EST 2007.Running on SunOS f15k1-cons ...

port monitoring using sunmc

556 byte By MATTEa at 2007-11-27 10:18:43
Does anyone know of a module for SunMC which can monitor whether servers are responding on specific ports ( e.g. port 25 ). Either a Sun or Halcyon module.Also, does anyone know if a V125 would be powerful enough as a SunMC server. I've been told by a colleague that SunMC servers should have at ...

Mirroring a hard disk using a USB external hard disk

781 byte By Betya at 2007-11-27 9:17:33
Hello, I need to mirror a hard disk with Solaris 10 using an external USB hard disk . But this is not my only problem, something happen with the external disk after my first tries and now I cannot read the disk. I need to reformat, add file systems and anything it is required to use it again. ...

Unable to collect NIC data for reporting with MIB-II module

1866 byte By SDFFa at 2007-11-27 8:17:28
Hi all,Here we have SunMC 3.6.1 set up with almost all the available modules, including the complete "MIB-II Instrumentation" one. We also have the "Performance Reporting Manager" feature, and want to use it to generate a hole bunch of performance reports for our Sun servers.The problem I am ...

SMC exit on error at beginning of install on x86 snv_64a

810 byte By superdomea at 2007-11-27 7:49:27
Hi,I will be happy if someone can help me.Any suggestion are welcome.I try to install smc agent on a x86. On sparc S10 i have no problem.zx2:/tmp/cdrom/disk1/sbin#./es-inst -av-This script installs Sun (TM) Management Center 3.6.1-Installation files source directory: ...

Sun Management Centre (3.6.1)on Solaris10 11/06

270 byte By zhassana at 2007-11-27 7:37:33
Hi All,Is there someone who has tested SunMC 3.6.1 on Solaris10 11/06. The reason for asking this quesion is because we are about to shift SunMC from Solaris9 to Solaris10 now. Please share your experiences (good or bad).Ragards,Zia-ul-Hassan

sunMC 3.6.1 - ports to open

480 byte By shena at 2007-11-27 6:22:44
I have installed sunMC 3.6.1. server, agent, and console on a Solaris host located in our trusted network. The sunMC agent was installed on Solaris hosts that are located in our trusted network and in our DMZ.What ports should be opened in our firewall to allow sunMC server and console to ...

SunMC 3.5.1 server / windows (java) console firewall ports

172 byte By stanoa at 2007-11-27 6:22:37
does anyone know the port range and protocol required for flawless and consistent communication between SunMC 3.5 server and it's windows java console?thanks

Please help.

484 byte By NewSunBirda at 2007-11-27 5:51:51
Hi,I'm facing a problem with report manager. I've installed PRM in the other agent hosts and also successfully added the host in the console. The problem i'm facing now, from Tools -> Report Manager -> Data Availability -> Inactive Host, which i can see my system listed here. With ...

Report Manager from Web Console

150 byte By csarcca at 2007-11-27 5:10:46
Hi,Is it possible to generate a report from the web console instead of login to the console using xterm for Sun MC 3.6.1?ThankYou

SunMC Console on a Mac?

189 byte By Emeralda at 2007-11-27 4:57:41
Hi there,Just wondering, did anybody try running the Console on a Mac with OSX? I'd love to be able to monitor the network with my Mac ;-)Regards,Emerald

SunMC 3.6.1 - Hardware Diagnostic Suite not available

854 byte By neildotwilliamsa at 2007-11-27 3:51:29
Hi all,I cannot view or run the Hardware Diagnostic Suite on any of the servers that are being monitored. It does not show up under applications on the servers details.I have recently installed SunMC 3.6.1 on a freshly installed Solaris 10 server. I have installed it with most 'addons' ...

patching solaris

146 byte By deus-the-programmera at 2007-11-27 1:55:13
how do i patch solaris 9?i have a list of patches to apply where do i get them from and how do i apply them?thanks,ed.

Report Manager - Data collection

691 byte By asnaeda at 2007-11-27 0:51:20
Hi,I'm having problems with data collection on a number of servers.Essentially, I've configured data logging on a number of serversby creating a job in the 'Manage jobs' window, using the task type'data logging' and running it against a number of hosts.Unfortunately, when I look at the ...

edit the environement ( env commands

283 byte By monsterSolatisa at 2007-11-27 0:49:11
hi all,when I tape this command " env " under solairs 10 , it displays my things about hostname , login name ,.... and the editor,how can I change this configuration I need to change the EDITOR to EDITOR=/usr/bin/vican some help me plzthanks

SMC 3.6.1 requires a reboot?

279 byte By Mike-Jeppesena at 2007-11-27 0:45:47
I recently installed SMC and much to my dismay when I tried to run the Set Up part of the install it failed telling me I needed to reboot my host due to /etc/system changes. This installation is on Solaris 10 - why in the world does it require a reboot for IPC parameters?

Debugging agent - How do I alter the log level?

321 byte By TrevPa at 2007-11-26 23:49:20
Hi,I'm having a problem with a couple of workstations, whereby the residentagent loses contact with the SunMC server. The log files under /var/opt/SUNWsymon/logaren't much help. Is there anyway of increasing the verbosity of the datacollected in these ...

Windows XP console woe

1118 byte By izumia at 2007-11-26 23:44:37
Folks,I am trying to connect using a windows XP console to SMC and not meeting withvery much success.If I run the console direct from the SMC server it works fine,whenhowever I use the XP based console I get a box saying Communication may not beestablished with the server-the server version may ...

Sun Management Center - Sun Fire V125 - SunMC 3.5.1

456 byte By DBSRSMa at 2007-11-26 23:15:20
Hello,I have problems integrating a SunMC 3.5.1 agent on a new V125 server into the managemnt console.1) The server itself is not recognized - means I have a folder symbol instead of server symbol2) I cannot see any module loaded in the console only the high level entry point like "local ...

SunMC 3.6.1 , free or not?

773 byte By Emeralda at 2007-11-26 22:54:23
Hi there,To my surprise I just found out that the SunMC webpage on sun.com was updated, but I was even more surprised to see that they changed the licensing..Please correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't the SunMC 3.6.1 software used to be "free" for commercial use and if you wanted support than ...

SunMC server behind firewall - which ports should be accessible?

406 byte By TrevPa at 2007-11-26 22:42:27
Hi,We're in the process of configuring a SunMC server/client topologyin a DMZ. A firewall resides between the server and clients.The following ports have been opened inbound - i.e. client -> server163 UDP8080TCPSNMP port UDPOutbound traffic - i.e. server -> client - is unrestricted.What ...

Upgradation of SMC Server

861 byte By Sysopsa at 2007-11-26 22:34:35
Dear All,We are running a SMC server with version 3.5.1 in a Solaris 8 machine in our setup which is monitoring our more than 60-70 servers which are also running 3.5.1 agents. Now as because of some problems, we have to replace our Old SMC server to a new server. Now my question is that if we ...

SunMC Agent 3.6.1 and ZFS

219 byte By Petura at 2007-11-26 22:24:36
Hello,I was wondering if a SunMC agent is able to recognize a ZFS filesystem? I've tried it on one of our test servers there is no category under Kernel Reader-Filesystem Usage for ZFS...only ufs and vxfs

I cannot add SNMP legacy agent to SunMC

1383 byte By Brian_Songa at 2007-11-26 21:04:33
Hi there,I have problems with adding my SNMP legacy agent to SunMC, I would appreciate any suggestions/solutions.I wrote a SNMP agent using SNMP4j. It works well when stand alone. Then I try to add it to SunMC as a legacy agent. I followed the steps listed in the document "Sun Management Center ...

SMC solaris 10

110 byte By andrew@esteema at 2007-11-26 18:27:34
I am unable to use the SMC in the non-global zones and undertake tasks e.g.. add users should this work

es-cli batch mode problems

1014 byte By wks9326a at 2007-11-26 18:21:52
I can not get es-cli to accept my parameters file. It is no longer sending out errors but it's not logging me in either.If I pass the paramters file but not a batch file I get to the prompt with out error but I'm not logged in. If I pass in a batch file I get the following error.Error in the ...

problem with halcyon event action

500 byte By peternla at 2007-11-26 17:55:24
Can anyone please help me with the following problem I have with the installation of the Halcyon Prime alert event action module on my SunMC 3.6.1 which is installed on a Solaris 10 zone.Installation of Halcyon eventaction module 2.2.0b seems to be ok but if I try to add an new action the ...

problem with halcyon event adapter

493 byte By peternla at 2007-11-26 17:55:16
Can anyone help me with the following problem I have with the installation of the Halcyon Prime alert event action module on my SunMC 3.6.1 which is installed on a Solaris 10 zone.Installation of Halcyon eventaction module 2.2.0b seems to be ok but if I try to add an new action the script tab ...

monitoring host across router

563 byte By christian71a at 2007-11-26 17:55:10
Hi,does enybody knows if there is a known problem in monitoring hosts across router with SMC 3.6 (solaris 10)?I have many machines under monitoring on one subnet (server and agent on the same subnet) and this works fine, but when I try to add an object that is on another subnet I have the error ...

Problem using agent-update.bin to roll out SunMC agents

1954 byte By carterana at 2007-11-26 17:24:31
Greetings,I want to use agent-update.bin to roll out SUNMC agents to solaris 9 and 10 hosts. I use the es-agentupdate.sh tool to create the installation package and the seed file on the SunMC server in /var/opt/SUNWsymon/agentupdate.I copy the binary /opt/SUNWsymon/base/bin/agent-update.bin to ...

Error with Hardware Diagnostic Suite 3.6.1

350 byte By fisher11a at 2007-11-26 16:58:13
HiWhen I try and run hardware diagnostici suite on an agent I get the error mesage:"Please make sure the Hardware Diagnostic Suite server is running on the Sun Management Center server machine."I don't know how to do this despite a trawl through all available documentation.Any help gratefully ...

raising cpu offline alerts to major

492 byte By Thorfuna at 2007-11-26 16:42:02
Hi all,I hope you can help with this. I have a situation where Sunfire 15k cpu offline alerts are being sent to SMC as a warning level alert. These get sent on using PrimeAlertNotification to another monitoring software but warning level alerts gets filtered out due to the number received.This ...

SunMC 3.6.1 Agent and zones

290 byte By Petura at 2007-11-26 16:40:16
Hi folks,I'm wondering how to handle zones with SunMC 3.6.1. We're planning to use zones in the future, mostly whole root zones. As far as I understood, I need to install the agent in the global zone and in the local zone afterwards. Is this correct?Thanks in advance

Sun MC and PrimePower

534 byte By Bernd_Schemmera at 2007-11-26 16:25:06
Hi,according to this page http://www.sun.com/software/products/sunmanagementcenter/ds/datasheet.xml#10 SunMC 3.6.1 supports PrimePower Machines:Hardware platformsSPARC and x86 platform-based workstations and servers The Solaris Container Manager 3.6.1 addon also supports the Fujitsu-Siemens ...

SunMC agent on a multihomed machine, how to configure agent?

828 byte By kerulea at 2007-11-26 15:35:30
hi,I have a sun bladed machine with four networks cards. I Need that the agent listen for one IP, but i read that the only way to do this is changing the name of a machine with "uname -s name_of_my_ip_interface", because the agent only listen in miultiip machines for the ip that have the name ...

Don't start SMC server & components

3526 byte By vserbina at 2007-11-26 15:19:49
Hi!I抦 install and setup SMC on Solaris 9/05 (SunBlade 150), but when I抦 trying start SMC ?# ./es-start 朅c , or ./es-guistart - process hang a lot of time without any results:SUNMC SERVICE STATUS-Java Server RunningDatabase services Not Running.Grouping service Not Running.Event-handler service ...

Impossible to launch the console

7401 byte By mmoriauxa at 2007-11-26 15:07:38
Hello,Since a few weeks, we have a problem to launch the SunMC Console. When login successfully, we have the following error message :"The Sun Management Center server is being initialized. Retry ?"Here is the result of the command es-validate :-This script will help you in validation of Sun ...

SunMC 3.6.1 Web Server

214 byte By mnlotta at 2007-11-26 14:30:52
I'm having difficulty starting the SunMC web server on a solaris 9 V490. I've installed SunMC 3.6.1 on a Solaris 10 V100 (for testing) with no issues. Anyone have any clues as to what's causing the issue?

DNS service Element always reports false down

856 byte By wks9326a at 2007-11-26 14:09:07
I have loaded the DNS service element module on a Solaris 10 DNS server running SMC 3.6.1. There is nothing special about the DNS server it's running the version Bind that came with Solaris 10 6/06 and it's being controlled via SMF. Bind is listening to port 53 on all interfaces and I am able ...

Direkt link to Host-Details of a Target

175 byte By MaKoa at 2007-11-26 14:00:24
Hi, is it possible to create a direct link to a host-detail page like https://sunconsoleserver:8443/console/hostdetails?target=targetnameThank you!

how can i find out the community string used?

262 byte By Thorfuna at 2007-11-26 13:10:22
i'm having an issue (the details of which I won't go into just yet) and I need to run es-setup -F. i know the seed that was used on the server but don't know what the community string is set to. can anyone let me know where is the string stored?

uninstall a agent on a local zone

238 byte By peternla at 2007-11-26 13:01:40
Can anyone tell us how to uninstall an agent on a local zone.We issued the es-uninst on a local zone and get the following result:./es-uninst es-uninst is not a valid command inside sparse zoneExiting...

Some alerts get caught by eventaction and some don't ...

591 byte By eberthiaumea at 2007-11-26 12:36:56
Trying to find out why certain type of alerts get cought by eventaction and some don't.Got all kinds of voltage errors, warnings and such and those get all the way to our Tivoli gateway. I've disable a CPU on one of our box and i see it in the console but it never gets shipped to our Tivoli ...

Agent start on boot

346 byte By flgal3a at 2007-11-26 12:29:50
Hi there,Anyone have a simple script to start the SMC agent at boot time to plug into /etc/rc2.d on a Solaris 2.8/9 box? I'm sure it is pretty easy to write. I'm kind of surprised that this is not covered in the documentation. Anyone know of reasons why one would not want the agent to start ...

How can i implement SNMPv3 support for comunicate agents with server?

422 byte By kerulea at 2007-11-26 12:25:37
Hi,I read that Sun Management Center agents not can communicate with server layer by SNMPv3, how can i implement this communication?Do you think that If possible use Solaris Management Agent like a proxy SNMP to translate SNMPv2/v1 communications of sun Mc server to SNMPv3 comunications with ...

Login Issues for some users

598 byte By spribyl at 2007-11-26 11:56:44
Hey Folks,I am running SMC 3.5X and am experiencing problems with some users not being able to login.I can login as root and some other users, but some new users have the following issues.1) Using the java console on solaris and windows appears to just timeout. I can see images getting loaded ...

SMC agent installation error (sparse zone-related problem)

607 byte By minasam at 2007-11-26 11:55:35
Hi, I am new to SMC and I really could not find any solution to my problem regarding the SMC agent installation in the local zones. The installations of the SMC agent in the global zones are successful (used xwindow). However, during the execution of the command: ./es-instin the local zone, the ...