We've had a minimal SMC configuration for a while, and I finally have time to get serious about it. But I'm having some trouble getting it to do what I need, so I could use some help. So far these are the issues that I haven't been able to resolve:First, I can't find a clear event related ...

HiI understand SMC can check on patches etc, what is this product like, what else can it do, because i understand it is not free?ThanksRgdsCharles

Hello I am a total solaris newbie....all sympathy appreciated.I have a sun fire V120 running solaris 8, connecting through an xterm on Windows 200I am trying to set up slices/partitions on my new disk, I am very unsure of running format commands etc. So I want to try to do it through the ...

Hi,I work in a PC running W2000pro and another with XPpro.Usualy I use MicroImages X server 2.0 or an old version of X-Win32 (3.0) to remote access at Unix environment.Do you have any suggestion for a better X emulator to work with Solaris?Thanks for your ...

I am a student and taking Solaris at the local community college. We have solaris 8 on Intel platform running SMC 1.2 and it works fine. I purchased a Ultra 1 and have Solaris 8 on it with SMC 2.?. When I start the program (smc &) it does brings up the console but i can not find any tools ...

Hi, I've a SUN server with private IP. It has a static NAT. Is it possible to define this server as an agent to SMC server on a real network. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Murat

Somebody can tell mw why SMC Console not run son Solaris 9 Platform ?There is any way to solve this problem ?Thank's in advance.

Hi, I need to find a way of providing a more user friendly audit log of command line activities than BSM. The script command generates the right level of details, but it's too easy to kill. Is there anyway I can make it more secure?ThanksStephen

Hi !I'm fighting a hard battle over here, trying to master a SUN Enterprice 450.Currently running SonOS 5.7 (solaris 7).Shortly I took over the resposibility for this machine. I found 10 disks (scsi, all of the same kind).But the system seems to just work with a few of them, but I not sure and ...

I'd like to use SMC to allow operators to modify passwords. Is this possible using the "basic" SMC installation? Or do I require other modules which allow me to do this?Thanks,-Mike-

Hi there,Is there a way to monitore A1000 disk stack with Sun Management Center?Also, does it worth waiting for version 3.5 which will be released on may 28?Thanks!Martin ChartrandSysAdmin

Hi everyone..Ok.. I have played around a little with SMC... but I have a few questions... 1 - When an alarm appears (hardware failure, CPU utilization too high, etc), is there a way to send an email or a page or it just puts a litte red check on the server name?2 - With the process monitoring ...

Does anyone know if there is a way to set up just one agent host, configure it exactly how you want it with modules, alarms, etc. and then duplicate that same config across many agents?

I am trying to install it but the server option is greyed out. Am I doing something wrong?Thanks,Sonny

After installing SMC 3.0 with platform update 4, I can add the host object in the SMC console however, when I try to modify the agent or add/remove a module I receive the "Insufiicient Security Privilege" message at the bootom of the window. I think It may be the security seed. When running ...

I'm configuring JASS (Security Toolkit) to run on newly jumpstarted machines and wanted to run the finish script: disable-snmp, but wasn't sure if SunMC needed to have these packages installed in order to run. I currently am at 3.0 but will be upgrading to 3.5. I have not run JASS on our ...

I installed the netra package on 2 Netra V100's. They both show an alarm on the LOM alert 3. What is this alarm? and how do I get it to go away. Its not very informative.Thanks,Sonny

Hai.. I am having solaris 7.0 O/S dont know how to boot do i need any boot disk for this just give me a clear idea ..................chandu.

I have installed SUN MC 3.5 server and agent on a group of machines. All machine communicate just fine except for 2 SunBlade 100s. The agents are running but the server doesn't collect data. When I run a 'discovery ' on the network for those nodes it finds the machines and labels them ...

I created an image using es-imagetool and I changed the port number as seen in my logs:Sun Management Center agents use SNMP Port 161 by defaultif port 161 is not in use. Port 161 could be in use on thedestination machine by the SNMP daemon snmpdx.Specify an Optional Port Number to assign the ...

With interest I read the topic about 'changing password'. OK I already visited halcyons site. But I`m afraid that SMC in general is weak at keeping scripts central or distribute them half or full automatic. The discription called script repository let me think that I may access scripts from ...

I installed SMC 3.0 Platform update 4 agent on a V480. Ran es-setup, it found the platform type V480 however, when I add the object in the console, the icon shows up as a blue folder or a non monitored object. Cant load modules and only has the simple kernel reader module. I also updated the ...

I have a v880 which the agent dies after a few minutes with this message:door_call(21, 0xFFBE1DA0)= 0door_call(21, 0xFFBE1F88)= 0door_call(21, 0xFFBE1F88)= 0door_call(21, 0xFFBE1B78)= 0door_call(21, 0xFFBE1C78)= 0door_call(21, 0xFFBE1C00)= 0door_call(21, 0xFFBE1D70)= 0Incurred fault #6, ...

Dear all,I am looking for the Developers Manual for SunMC 3.5. At the regular URL for documentation on SunMC 3.5 ( http://docs.sun.com/db/coll/810.2) I cannot find it. The one for 3.0 is available at http://docs.sun.com/db/coll/810.1. Can I use that one for a start or is 3.5 different internally ...

Dear,I loaded SunMC 3.5 Developer version on a V240. Going to "Details" for the node I see only the tabs called Info and Module Brower. I do not see the tabs called Alarms, Modules, Logs, etc. This means for instance I cannot add modules beyond the few that are installed by default in ...

The SMC FAQ for SNMP lists steps to take to forward traps to a 3rd party management application. The steps listed here: http://wwws.sun.com/software/solaris/sunmanagementcenter/faq/snmp.html#0q10 do not seem to be valid. Has anyone gotten this to work? After reading the Appendix of the DE ...

Due to the lack of Sun releasing MIBs for the platform modules, I have created them myself. They are very elementry MIBs that are useful really for just mapping OID numbers to names. They have been tested with the net-snmp tools. I don't have one of every piece of hardware, but they have been ...

Hello!During the installation when I set that the computer is not networked, everything (SMC) seems to work absolutely fine.But when I set the option that the computer is networked, The SMC (Solaris management Console) doesn;t startup. it says again and again that the server couldn't be found. ...

Hello!During the installation when I set that the computer is not networked, everything (SMC) seems to work absolutely fine.But when I set the option that the computer is networked, The SMC (Solaris management Console) doesn;t startup. it says again and again that the server couldn't be found. ...

I've installed the 3.5 agent on a V800, but the server (which is running 3.0, patch level 15) only show the "Blue folder of Death". The only tabs I have are Info and a Browser with quite a few undefined modules. Is there a patch/package I can apply to make the two play nice?

HiI'm using Sun OS 5.8, using top command I have process with value 3048M in SIZE column, why ?, what is the normal value for SIZE column ?Why I have 11885M free in Memory ?Where is the 12G of memory ?load averages: 6.00, 6.19, 5.8012:30:13877 processes: 870 sleeping, 1 running, 6 on cpuCPU ...

I'm trying to get an action going for my V480. I can't find the Action tab on any object at all. Am I missing a module? I've installed version 3.5. I have the Workgroup Server add on installed and have two V480. I would like to e-mail a message on any hardware alarms. Can't figure it out. ...

greetings to all, I'am new to SMC and I'am installing it on my ultra 10 with 512 mb ram.The installation was ok but when I runs the gui setup after completing up to 50%it is suddenly getting stopped and redirecting me to some log file which saysDatabase setup fail :See the logfile ...

Dear all,I had an SunMC server+client on one machine running fine for weeks to experiment. Last week we changed IP address range in the data center and I followed the procedure to change the setup of SunMC to cope with the address change. First I ran "es-setup -F" to rerun the setup of SunMC ...

I would like to monitor CPU and Memory, but don't want to install a large application like Sun Managment Center. Can I install only a portion of this product? Ideally I would like an agent that populates an SNMP MIB with CPU and Memory statistics (very minimal requirements).What is the best ...

I am running SMC 3.0 Update 4. I would like to forward the traps received by the SMC to another station (runing NNM 6.41). I have done the steps outlined in the SMC FAQ and also tried the steps outlined in the thread 'Forwarding of traps'The following is what I have done./snmpset -h localhost ...

hiam testing SMC 3.5 and have installed three agents which are in the same subnet as the server (no firewalls). while one agent is working fine, but in the others, I cant open either the "Module Browser" or the "Module Manager" tabs in the console. But the other tabs like "logs" and "info" look ...

Hey all, I'm having trouble with the es-cli batch mode login. It seems that when you have a batch file (where commands are one per line, identical to the session based mode) one cannot run the 'login' command with any arguments that it will understand.I've been able to decipher (no thanks ...

Hi,Just finished SMC3.5 server and agent installtion on 15k 5 domains.It's working good.I installed SMC agent on SC0(System Controller).Discover manager detected properly.Here is my problem when i tried to load module for SC0 (Like PSDM,SC status etc) ....i am getting error ""Failed to load ...

Hi We have Sun Fire v880 Server and I would like to install SMC on this system as I have three CD's of SMC but how do I install it .any idea.Sukrut

I have an action setup to send an e-mail, via e-mail.sh, when a particular file reaches 90% full the e-mail is sent. Is there a setting to send e-mail every 10 minutes that the threshold is exceeded? or is once per threshold exceeded all you can do? It is SMC 3.0.

When I run the command ?(On a V120 with SMC 3.5 installed)--> /opt/SUNWsymon/sbin/es-run mib2x -f kernel-reader-mib.mib <--One of the lines of output is the following.齣so/org/dod/internet/private/enterprises/sun/prod/sunsymon/agent/modules/kerne ...

I would like to disable direct login to oracle, requiring users to login to their personal accounts and then su - oracle.... I would also like them to have to enter the oracle password. I tried setting up an account with setuid only, but they can still su with out having the password. ...

Hello,We currently are running SMC 2.1.1 and would like to move this from an Ultra 10 to a 250 with twin 300MHz. Am I correctly assuming that when I reinstall the server, and use the same hostname and IP as the server that all the agent configuration will remain.. In other words, does all agent ...

hii am testing SMC 3.5 server with SMC 3.0 agents. i get the following error when the agent starts:infoOct 07 02:42:22 agent loading module: Config-Reader4uwgwarning Oct 07 02:42:24 agent initialize - invalid dependency: system.total_mode_changesinfoOct 07 02:42:27 agent module ...

Is there a way to detect disk errors without parsing the /var/adm/messages file? SNMP? Some system level call? We are seeing disk failures in our product that come on slowly, usually generating errors and warnings about "Recoverable read error" or other before the failure. We would like to ...

Ultra 1 workstation hangs at the ok prompt, Restoring the System, Please Wait... cpr_reset_properties: Unable to open /.cpr_default on /sbus@lf, 0/espdma@e, 8400000/esp@e, 8800000/sd@0, 0a.cprboot: cannot read saved nvram info, please reboot.ok>Does anyone know what is wrong with the ...

How can I use email.sh to send emails as a user other than root.Root sends the email as <user>@<hostname><domainname>.com and for security reasons I need to remove the hostname from the senders email address if the email is being sent externally i.e. a paging bureau. I am ...

Hi,Not sure if this is the right forum to ask, BUT is there a command or a way to display the serial numberof a sun box without physically going to the box?Thanks,Siraj

Hi all,齝ould any one tell me where i can download OpenSSH from?Thanks.