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SMC and System controllers problem

658 byte By ctemp1 at 2007-11-26 7:39:01
Hi, I installed a SMC 3.5.1 in a system controller to monitor the entire platform, I configured a email alert but I received the next message:Alert: sc0 Config Reader (Sun Fire High-End Systems) A Status Domain A - Domain Status is: In RecoveryBut the domain has not been restart.$ uptime ...

Insufficient security privilge to add a row - SunMC 3.5.1

513 byte By qsavary at 2007-11-26 7:41:33
Hi All,I've a strange behaviour with my SunMC server.Yesterday, I've made a fresh install and push a common config on some agents (+/-40) without any problem of security.Today, I've tried to add a new process row to monitor but I received back an error like "Insufficient security privilege ...

SUNMC 3.5.1 agent installation on E2900. Showing up as a Blue Folder

3448 byte By katsal at 2007-11-26 7:45:20
Hi People.Hoping someone may help me out. I have read the other posts regarding similar icons appearing as a Blue Folder, but would like some advise.I have installed SUNMC 3.5.1 agent on a couple E2900. The installation included the following installation components. Below is the output from ...

StorEdge 3510 disk array & SunMC

317 byte By Piff-Paffcio at 2007-11-26 7:48:16
Hi I have a question regarding Sun StorEdge 3510 & SMC. I want to have notifications about hdd problems, cache or controller faults. I know that I can install StorADE and send messages to SMC. Is there any other way to have 3510 notifications in SMC withouht hiring ...

SMC 3.5U1 lost details

552 byte By c.riedel at 2007-11-26 7:50:31
We use SMC 3.5U1 to manage about 350 Servers. About a year everything works fine. But now we have the problem, that more and more of the managed servers are 'loosing' their details.If you open the details view, you just see the server entry itself, but no more entries (Hardware, Operating ...

SunMC & events

272 byte By Piff-Paffcio at 2007-11-26 7:50:51
Hi I was searching today for few hours for events which SunMC can receive and interpret. The documentation is ... well .. poor :-) Have any of you information of a document which explains messages, type of alerts SunMC can recognize?RegardsPaul

problem with HostdetailsBean

509 byte By michaelkz at 2007-11-26 7:54:53
Hello.We are trying to integrate host details windows from the SunMC into an existing, 3d party, management application. We are attempting to use the HostdetailsBean as instructed by the Developer's guide. The required window does not open upon call to doLaunchHostdetails() and I keep getting ...

Sun Management Center v 3.x Database Question

487 byte By katsal at 2007-11-26 7:55:14
Hi People.I have a question regarding the database that SUNMC uses. Is this database open. By this I mean can third party capacity and reporting tools interrogate the data SUNMC has collected directly with its database.Also where can I find out about the database that SUNMC utilises. I have ...

SunMC 3.6.1 in a Zone /etc/project settings ?

296 byte By pk1048 at 2007-11-26 8:07:02
I am (trying) to get SunMC 3.6.1 up and running in a Whole Root Local Zone (hardware is T2000) and am having a problem migrating the Oracle parameters from /etc/system (where the installer put them) to /etc/project (where they need to be for 5.10). Has anyone already invented this wheel ?

question regarding "Agent Statistics Number of processes > 15"

1483 byte By katsal at 2007-11-26 8:07:24
Hi People.I have a general question regarding an alarm that has had its threshold breached on a number of our servers. Below is some investigation.The alarm is generated by Local Applications > Agent Statistics > Sun Management Center Total Child Process Statistics.The default threshold ...

cronjobs for root installed by SUNWsymon

378 byte By flgal3 at 2007-11-26 8:08:05
Hey there,Can anyone send me the cron jobs that were created on their server when SMC was installed? I ever so wisely trashed root's crontab file last night. The SMC cron jobs are the only ones missing at this point. My SMC server is also the console server. There were two cron jobs in the ...

New Install SMC 3.6 Question.

423 byte By ravi_home at 2007-11-26 8:08:53
I am planning to install SMC 3.6 (server ) on sunfire 480 running Solaris 2.9.My root file system has only 18GB .But I have other file system called smc with 80 gb.Is it possible can I install sun management center (server) on /smc directory? Other question I have is when I install SMC server ...

Uninstall console and server components

541 byte By flgal3 at 2007-11-26 8:10:54
Hi again,Previous posts didn't quite answer this question. I need to remove the server and console portions of SMC from a machine since I decided to use a different machine for these functions. The es-unist script only seems to tackle removing the agent and the add ons. At no point did it ask ...

Sun Mc through NFS

264 byte By astroveny.sun at 2007-11-26 8:15:49
hi,i want to run the setup through NFS so i shared the Sun MC folder on server1, but when i run the the installation file from the server2 it reply:enter the source directory of the installation filesso what should it be!!Thanks.

StorADE & SMC 3.5 once gain

745 byte By Piff-Paffcio at 2007-11-26 8:18:17
Hi I am trying to make both these beasts to run together. I've installed them (SMC first, StorADE afterwards). I've installed patches:117650-60117654-60118222-08118223-08118224-08118225-08and additional packages:systemSUNWesraa The RASAgent module for SUNMC agentsystemSUNWesras The RASAgent ...

SunMc Oracle licensing

271 byte By jbsp01 at 2007-11-26 8:18:32
Could somebody please confirm to me that the Oracle instance that is part of SunMC comes bundled under the same Licence.I think i can remember seeing somthing to this affect at installation time, but confirmation would be great.Many thanks..AB

unable to load console information!!!!

380 byte By astroveny.sun at 2007-11-26 8:18:34
hi,i installed the SunMC agent on server2 and i have already installed the SunMC server on server1 and i assigned the server1 to be SunMC server for the agent of the server2. but when i run "Discover Objects" from my domain , it catch the server2 but i cant get the information.."unable to load ...

ignoring alerts for some specific disks

462 byte By bgcitg at 2007-11-26 8:19:36
Hi,Just started as a total newbee to play with SMC3.6.1I checked with local SUN support if we can let either the agent or the server exclude certain disks from being checked. The answer was that a bug prevents this, an RFE is opened.In the mean time, can I achieve the same result by setting ...

checking fiber-channel ports resets or up/downs

553 byte By bgcitg at 2007-11-26 8:19:38
Hi,we suspect serious saturation on ports of SAN-connected storage arrays, and want to monitor if timeouts or resets or link down/up happen on the server's FC-HBA ports (the "fp" driver).Is this possible with a readily available feature?Or do I need to find out myself what structure of ...

how to load module info

143 byte By astroveny.sun at 2007-11-26 8:26:24
hi,i cant load module info of a host into the SunMC server, is it from the agent of the hostany suggestions thanks.

Sun Management Center and Reduced Core Installs

1063 byte By custodix at 2007-11-26 8:31:38
hey all,I just discovered the Sun Management Center and the tool looks great for the servers I need to manage. However due to security reasons all our servers are installed as Reduced Network Core installs where we then add the minimal extra packages. At the moment I am still testing everything ...

3.6.1 server compatible with 3.51b agent?

122 byte By watweng at 2007-11-26 8:32:30
Can the new 3.6.1 server support the older agents? And is there any loss of functionality if older agents are used?

Help!!!! Issue with Sunmc3.6.1 console

420 byte By javaboy1979210 at 2007-11-26 8:42:14
Hi all,I encountered an issue with SMC3.6.1 console, when open the console by connecting a SMC agent server(point at login GUI), there are several tab panes missed, such as "View logs", "application", "Hardware", and the icon for the host node is wrong, it should be an inco of a machine, but ...

SunMC 3.6 and Solaris 10 06/06

905 byte By stephen2602 at 2007-11-26 8:44:17
Greetings,As I have to move my SunMC off one server (because IBM Netview cant run on the same system because it wants ports 162, 163 and 164) and put it on another, I thought hey, why not try Solaris 10 06/06. We are talking about a fresh installation on a new system.I have a serious problem ...

Move SMC 3.6 to new server

274 byte By fisher11 at 2007-11-26 8:47:31
HiI am planning to move our installation of SunMC 3.6 currently running at solaris 9 to a new server running solaris 10.Is it possible to migrate the historical data and custom settings that we have already created.Thanks in advance for any help.

Monitor private MIBs

966 byte By Lander_Indra_Space at 2007-11-26 8:47:35
Hello everybody,I'm a newbie using SMC and I have some doubts which are probably obvious but at first sight I could not find the answer in the manuals.How can I monitor private MIBs from equipments which are not running any sun managent agent (like a FC switch)? Where do I load the private ...

Installing SunMC agent on many servers

520 byte By MATTE at 2007-11-26 8:50:01
Hi.Does anyone have any suggestions as to how I can install many SunMC agents at the same time. I am using agent-update.bin to install the agents, but there are over 100 and I don't want to install them one at a time.I cannot use cluster console or ctelnet since all servers are security ...

Process Monitoring match 4 Processes, but only one needed

439 byte By tjzhkfthjmk at 2007-11-26 8:54:34
Hello,i have a problem with the Process Monitoring Module in SMC 3.5. I will monitor one process with the name pmd, but 4 processes match on these chracters. How can i tell SMC that the Process Monitoring shows only the process who exactly Match the entered value ?Example:Wish to mointor ...

cannot load module in agent because of OID assignment conflict

1511 byte By michaelkz at 2007-11-26 9:00:42
Hi.I am working with sunmc 3.6.I have a list 3 problems. Here we go :-)1> I am trying to load a self developed module into my agents. It works fine on newly installed systems, but fails on a previously installed agent with the following message:loadModule: module load failed -- ...

monitoring OpenVMS and Digital Unix with SunMC

303 byte By Emerald at 2007-11-26 9:01:00
Hi there,Does anybody know of a way to monitor operating systems like OpenVMS and Digital Unix with SunMC?I'm not really interested in a lot of fancy stuff, just the basics like cpuload, memory, filesystems and checks on logfiles.Many thanks for your ...

Domain Agents and E6900 with multiple NICs.

2152 byte By alejandrogalue at 2007-11-26 9:03:25
Hello,I have some issues configuring Sun management Center 3.6 (and 3.6.1) on a network with this characteristics:2 x E6900 (with 2 Domains each one)1 x v210The Server Component of Sun Management Center is installed on the v210. In this machine are installed the Platform Agents of the 2 System ...

N1400 and SunMC

142 byte By spaigejr at 2007-11-26 9:04:11
I have the *.mib files for our Sun N1400 Load Balancers. How do I go about getitng these devices under SunMC?Thanks!Steve

3.6.1 version not able to start after os upgrade

174 byte By todd@sae.org at 2007-11-26 9:07:47
I performed an OS upgrade on my Server and now I can not get it to start. All es scripts seems to die without starting or validating anything. Any ideas?

Disabling Alarms? - include group actions checkbox

506 byte By hurtnn at 2007-11-26 9:12:47
Whats the easiest way to tell if this is checked/unchecked? This is how we disable hostdown notifications for specific boxes if we need downtime(if you have a better way PLEASE let me know..other then renaming email.sh/breaking mail/setting up dup ip). The problem is joe adm will uncheck the ...

smc 3.6.1 server unavailable

233 byte By jckdnk111 at 2007-11-26 9:22:11
I'm trying to install scm 3.6.1In the gui mode the server option is grayed out.In the text mode it doesn't even present as an option.I have no clue what the problem is so any advice would be appreciated.

SunMC 3.6.1 and zones monitoring

1658 byte By katsal at 2007-11-26 9:23:21
Hi People.I have just installed SunMC 3.6.1 on a test server. The installation included all add-on packages.I have also configured a couple of zones on the server. One a sparsezone and the second a wholeroot zone.Now here comes my question/concern.I configured the modules for the host object, ...

SunMC 3.6 agent for Linux - can't see the port in use

780 byte By CSCnot4me at 2007-11-26 9:31:30
Hi folksI just installed the 3.6 agent on a linux box but I can't get the server to speak to it.I do a netstat -a and grep for the port I'm using but it is not showing up.The documention contains very little with regards to troubleshooting linux agents.Adding this machine on the server end as ...

Gathering SNMP data from SMC

256 byte By phreak9i6 at 2007-11-26 9:32:14
Hello! I've been trying to read data from our Solaris hosts running SMC. Problem is I only seem to get Interface data. Is there a place I can add the HOST-RESOURCE-MIB mib file so I can gather more information (memory, disk, etc)Please help!

Core dump

420 byte By ncs_sysadmin at 2007-11-26 9:37:10
Hi,do you know, why each time i shutdown the Sunmc Server components, it will generates Sunmc core dump? Is the shutdown not graceful?Is there way to turn it off? (Takes alot of Hdspace)Also how to use the core file? Currently i'm using Sunmc 3.6 version.Sample of the core ...

Failed to add SMC agent into topology

879 byte By PRCGavinLiu at 2007-11-26 9:39:14
Hi,The configuration is as below:The SMC server and agent are running on serverA, and another SMC agent is running on serverB.I started the SMC console, and tried to add the serverB's agent into the topology. But it failed.In the SMC's server.log, I could find:..............warning August 23, ...

Installing the server

280 byte By ventje at 2007-11-26 9:44:14
Hi, i run es-guisetup and step to the components panel. I can select Agent and Console, but i can not select Server.I read the manual looking around on some pages but i can't find any hint, how to install the server. Can you help me please.ven.

sunmcjavaserver and sunmcgrouping problem

3851 byte By hadi74 at 2007-11-26 9:45:18
Dear All , I have installed smc on t2000 box , inside there sunray version 3.x , After rebooting Machine 2 services sunmcjavaserver and sunmcgrouping is intermitten (online and offline) .Here log from sunmcjavaserver and sunmcgrouping.log from sunmcjavaserver[ Aug 28 16:36:23 Method "stop" ...

Newbie question

818 byte By dsrm at 2007-11-26 9:47:23
How do I begin?I am currently doing a lot of manual monitoring of my company's unix servers.Manually checking disk space, manually checking syslog and /var/adm/messages. Stuff like that.The work load is getting overwhelming with the growth of my company. We just recently had SMC 3.6.1. ...

Could not start Agent on a Solaris 5.10u2 x86 machine

1133 byte By HalcyonInc at 2007-11-26 9:48:19
Hi, I installed SunMC 3.6.1 on a Solaris 5.10u2 x86 machine. Only Agentand Concole are installed.There's no error during installation and setup, but the agent could not be started. # /opt/SUNWsymon/sbin/es-start -aCould not start Agent.After running svcs -x, I could see: # svcs -x ...

SunMC license question

654 byte By tmadm at 2007-11-26 9:48:50
Hi Gurus,Question: How can I check what license key is entered on a SunMC 3.5 U1 server and what functionality it entitles us to ? This will help us decide whether we need to purchase a new SunMC license.Some backgorund: I have inherited an usnused SunMC 3.5 U1 server installation in my new ...

es-cli complains about my parameter file

607 byte By EMRP at 2007-11-26 9:50:17
Hello,With SunMC 3.5, I wrote a couple of batches for es-cli, using a parameter file. For example:es-cli -b export.cli i=parameters.cliWorked fine.I got a new server, installed SunMC 3.6.1, configured it exactly like my 3.5 system, and tried my batches. es-cli now complains about the parameter ...

Linux agent won't install

587 byte By Emerald at 2007-11-26 9:50:44
Hi there!I'm trying to install the x86 Linux version of the SunMC agent on a SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 9, but it's giving me this error message:./es-inst: line 1: --: command not foundThen, after pressing ^C, it gives this, and then it quits:./es-inst: line 418: --: command not foundThe ...

remote farm monitoring

796 byte By meirl at 2007-11-26 9:51:20
Hi. I would like to monitor several remote server farms from a central location.These server farms consist of solaris 10 x86 machines, so I can't install the server component on them (!?!!!) The remote farms also contain SNMP enabled hw. My access to these farms is limited to a single contact ...

update agent 3.5.1 to 3.6.1 with agent-update.bin

226 byte By peternl at 2007-11-26 9:56:08
Can anyone tell me if I can let agent-update.bin look in a local filesystem for the install image instead of the sunmc webserver ?This is because I must check in my sources in SPS and let sps deploy the software.

Problem with integration SMC3.6 and Unicenter TNG 3.0

445 byte By m_novoselov at 2007-11-26 9:58:06
HelloSMC 3.6 and Unicenter TNG 3.0 installed on the same host (SF v280R) with OS Solaris 8. All integration procedures done according "Sun Management Center CA Integration Package User抯 Guide for Unicenter TNG". SMC console works correctly and can discover view etc. agents, Unicenter TNG also ...