Quick question about the CPU utilization - If I set an alarm on >95% - is this based on a spike or does it look at >95% over a period of time eg: 2 minutesIf not - is there a way I can get SMC to look at consistent utilization ?

Greetings,We have recently deployed Sun MC 3.5 at our organisation, and wish to integrate notifications from Storade 2.4.I have read the Storade documentation, turned on Sun MC as a provider, specified the Sun MC server, reporting frequency and SNMP notifications on our Stordade central ...

I am interested in developing a system that uses Sun Cluster for a particularly mission critical system. Can SunMC or any of the Halycon stuff provide me with decent management of the clusters? The system runs Sybase and Java applications that use Corba for data transfer and putting that on a ...

Hello,I forwarding alarm to another management system. Now I might again back.I woulkd like to launch the SMC console and the Alarm tab should be shown directly.It would be even better if directly the information of an special alarm is shown.Does somebody have an idea for ...

Hello,I'm trying to retrieve the hardware configuration of all the hosts SunMC 3.5 is monitoring, and I believe the CST stores this information in text files at some point in the directory tree. I've been browsing around but had no luck. Can anyone tell me where can I find those files ?Thanks ...

Hi there,is there any way to identify running processes name using snmp and what mib should I use?if yes, is this mib part of the default snmp provided by sun or should it be installed in addition to the default snmp?Thanks,Adi.

I updated the email.sh script on the SunMC server and now would like to push it out via Managed Jobs.When I do so, I get "This target agent does not belong to the current server context: <hostname>:1161"What am I doing wrong?Steve

1. Is there any way to export out the list of current thresholds for all monitored servers under SunMC via command-line?2. Closely related, is there any way to have an audit trail if any changes are made to the threshold settings?Thanks.

Hello,do somebody know which informations with the SNMP Alarm forwarding are send?I think a part or all of this can be send:Severity, Start time, Action, Message, Alarm Ended On, Alarm Ack, Alarm End Time Ack, User ID AckBut I hope in addition a header is send with information about the client ...

Is there a published list of best practices from SUN for setting alarm thresholds? In particular I'm interested in hardware monitoring. For example: 1. memory DIMMs will be replaced by Sun if the count of non-intermittent ECC is over 24 in 24 hours. 2. Hard Disk Error count >1 should raise ...

If I have 2 V240 servers, with one designated asactive, and the other designated as standby, howcan I configure them so if that the active server goesdown or loses connecton, then the standby takes over?Is there any cabling required between the 2 servers?Each of them would have an ethernet ...

Anyone konw the how can repair the problem. the problem appear when the service start.Warning! task_eval_init(): unable to set User/Group baseDN

Does a dynamic system domain on the 12k/15k/20k/25k servers know/can find out that its a domain? If yes, how?Can a domain gather details regarding its SC. and is there a unique id (like hostid etc) that is same across all domains on a given high end server

Appreciate suggestions on whether SunMC can tackle the following 2 problems:1. Can SunMC track the growth of entire filesystems? File Monitoring module only tracks growth of individual files. Anybody have any creative ways of adapting this to monitor the filesystem?2. For process monitoring, ...

Hi,I have installed smc 3.5 and chose only Advanced System Monitoring during installation. When I start the smc console my main menu window don't have the alarms tab and the other tabs. It only have the info and module browser tab.Is anybody knows what causing

Best way to capture performance stats from tape devices in SunMC?

Hi,When i give ssh -l finmasd3 asgard '. ./.profile;lsnrctl start APPS_masd3'from remote machine with valid access to the serverIt hangs and doesnt return. BUt listener is started in the remote machine.i have tried giving & in the end, and gave two commands instead of one( start and ...

HiI have a Sun Management Center setup.Since then, I have been getting alarms from attributes like "% Of Time There Is A Transaction Waiting For Service Disk busy" or "Spins on mutex, High mutex contention rate, kernel overloaded"I would like to know if I can disable specific monitoring off. ...

I am running Sun MC 3.5 and need to regenerate the SNMPv1 community security string for audit purposes.Is this possible and if so how?Do I need to re-install the whole thing?Thanks.

Hi,How can I monitor my file systems under SMC 3.5? Do I need to install additional add-ons? Or is this feature not supported under SMC?TIA

Hi,Can I send alarms notification via email to multiple recipient? Or it can only send email alerts to a single email address?TIA

Hi,I tryied to install SMC 3.5 But get the following error:Installing Sun Management Center Module Configuration Propagation as <SUNWesmcp>## Installing part 1 of 1./opt/SUNWsymon <conflicting pathname not installed>[ verifying class <none> ]## Executing postinstall ...

Trying to acknowledge and delete alarms on SunMC server, but unable to do.Error :SNMP request timed out snmp://l72.20.2.3:1161/sym/base/info/agent/general/oaversion#0This host is also SunMC server.Sucessfully able to acknowledge and delete alarms on in its client machines, but gives above ...

Hello:I have just installed a Sun Mangement Center 3.5 environment. Also configured some SNMP object, some as proxy monytoring and other just as SNMP ping.Now I have to configure some SNMP objects for which I have SNMPv2 MIBS and I dont know how to do it.The Installation manual talks about ...

Hello,I'm trying to install SunMC 3.5u1a on Windows XP (I have installed JDK 1.5). When I run install.bat it fail... and never show installation wizard.Any suggestions...

Hello,Hello All,Is possible for the SMC console to generate a sound alarm when an event is set ?other thing....on the smc console messages it shows an excepcion related tomessageBell with com.sun.symon.base.console.awx.AwxServiceExceptionis that related to sound alarms ...

Hi,SMC provides tomcat as the web server to allow logon the SMC console through IE.For security consideration, we have to disable the http "PUT" and "DELETE" method of tomcat. Its config file seems to be /opt/SUNWsymon/web/conf/catalina.policy, but I have no knowledge of this file.Do anyone ...

This is with the SMAlarmSyncTest code in the SMC3.0 Developer documentation. I had it working once a while ago, but the machine has since been rejumped. I'm getting the following error when trying to login via the client API:*** Testing Connection ****Before Connection ...

I check an agent history.log , it is OK If I open the Data Collection Window in PRM I see a Yellow triangle before all clients. Except smc server. How can I check what happen ?

Can anyone tell me why we are getting the message mentioned in the subject.This message appears when we run a report in SunMC 3.5u1 with the item %used on the filesystem item in the kernel readermodule.Could this be the size of the sorting area in the Oracle DB ?

Hi,I just installed Sun Management Center On My Server and trying started the configuration Wizard. It looks like the Wizard will install Oracle Software to use it with SMC. Is it possible that I can use my Existing Oracle Database for SMC.Thanks,VBASA.

Hi, I'm encountering issues with my objects in my SMC 3.6 console. Whenever I do a mouse over, the "status changed" date and time seemed to be one day ahead from today's date. i.e, if today is Nov 23, 2005, the object's "status changed" shows Nov 24, 2005. It also affected my alarm's time ...

Hi!I've problems installing the agent without reboot on some hosts under solaris 8 (5.8 Generic_117350-02 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-480R). The problem shows up with black splats on the smc server (solaris 9), but I can browse the hardware information ...In other thread's it was suggested to ...

Hi, I've managed to install SMC3.6 agent on a Solaris 8 platform but I was unable to start my agent. I get "Could not start agent" whenever i invoked the ./es-start -a command.I've removed SMC3.6 agent and installed with 3.5 and it works. But I still prefer to use 3.6.Do I require any patches ...

How would you answer the following question.." have a general question for you security minded folks working with large networks.If a user wants to use Sun Management Center to control servers sitting out on a DMZ, what would be the best way to approach this?I wouldn't want to just open a port ...

I am new to Solaris. I have loaded Solaris 10 on an intel box. During the install I could not set up my NIC. I beleve that Solaris did not get the response that it wanted from the domain controler so that it could set up the DHCP. I have completed the install and now I need to configure my NIC. ...

Dear All , I have problem with smc 3.6 in solaris 10 , the problem is :Cannot create the resource pool*Cannot create the zone*Cannot update the project, zone, or pool*Cannot activate the container for valid user*Cannot associate the container to the hostI get solution from ...

Hi folks,I just did a test installation of the new SunMC 3.6 Server which worked fine. Afterwards, I did a fresh install of the 3.6 agent on a Sun Enterprise 420R running Solaris 10. I installed the agent in the global zone. At the end of the setup, when the system asks me if I want to start ...

Hi,We recently upgraded our SunMC 3.5u1 server to 3.6. Prior to the upgrade, everything was working correctly with the server also integrated into StorADE and CST.Since the upgrade, CST no longer works through SunMC 3.6, even though the agents all have the CST module loaded, the data is being ...

Hi,We're currently using the Tivoli/TEC adapter to forward SunMC events to our TEC. It seems that the default behavior is for WARNING and CRITICAL events to get forwarded. We'd also like to have the blue/INFO/Caution alerts from SunMC sent to TEC. Is this easily configurable?Thanks.-- ...

I'm trying to initiate the setup portion of a 3.5u1 to 3.6 upgrade and it keeps failing with the following error:-This script will help you to setup Sun (TM) Management Center 3.6.-Configuring the system for setup, please wait...stty: : Inappropriate ioctl for deviceExiting...execution of ...

Hello,I have SunOS 5.8 Generic_117350-26 sun4u sparc SUNW,UltraAX-i2. When I reboot my server I have the following messages :Initializing Memory ---------------------------------------- ...

Hi,I have 2 solaris 10 server. 1 acting as smc server and the other one as smc client.In smc server, I install smc srv sw 3.6, agent 3.6, container manager in sol10 global zone, no agent yet in local zoneIn smc client I install I install smc agent only in global zoneI can create new zone in smc ...

Is there anyway to script the creation of alarm-actions? Tried without any success using the setAlarmAction command from the cli.We need to set alarms/actions across all of our monitored server but this is fairly laborious if they are manually added for each module/alert via the GUI. e.g. ...

Hi,I install smc 3.6 in sol10 global zone in SF240 2GB RAM.I want to set alarm to automatically notify me when cpu utilization above threshold.I got color change to red in console when threshold is over the limit, but I didn't get any notification by email.What I have done:1. enable sendmail ...

Hi All,I have followed the instruction (Ch. 3) in the SMC User Guide to create a node. I then followed the instruction to create a module object, but it failed. When I clicked "Get Module" the program returned an "unable to connect" error message after a minutes later. I noticed that on the ...

Dear all,Is it possible to install and running SMC Server 3.6 in local zone with whole root (not sparse) steup?thanks

Hi!I was looking around and now I'm not completly sure, but it seem's that hardwaremonitoring (WorkgroupServer add-on) is not supported on solaris 7 ?I just want to be sure that I don't have missed anything.Oh, I should mention that I'm running SMC 3.6 (solaris ...

Does anyone know how to get access to the oracle db in sunmc 3.5.1u1a? Looking at /etc/shadow it looks as if the smcorau does not have a pwd and the oracle(assuming running ./es-inst created it) account I have no idea what the pwd is. I've been running ...

I am fairly new to SMC and would like to know if there is a way to deploy/create agents without having to deploy the the 450+ MB file across to the SC's?All I need is the agent part.Thanks