Can't acknowledge alarms on some clients

301 byte By hollyja at 2007-11-26 5:59:15
With certain clients, it appears there is full functionality (load/unload modules, monitor, etc.) with the exception of acknowledging alarms. When an attempt is made to acknowledge an alarm, the error message is "...No response from agent."Any help is greatly appreciated!J. ...

Need monitoring

227 byte By spaigejr at 2007-11-26 5:59:16
OK, we have SunMC deployed in about 90% of our envirnoment. Where should I start for some sort of Notifictions on alerts? Like to start out with the small stuff. Filesystem sizes, host down, etcThanks!Steve

Halcyon EventAction

146 byte By spaigejr at 2007-11-26 5:59:17
Anyone out there using the Halcyon EventAction module? Feedback? Looks like a great product. How expensive is it?Thanks!Steve

using net-snmp to read data from SMC?

414 byte By arutherford2 at 2007-11-26 5:59:19
Hi, we are currently using SMC 3.0 (about to upgrade to version 3.5). I'm interested in using net-snmp so that I can get access to the SNMP data residing in SMC via various C++ applications.Can this be done without running a net-snmp agent or sub-agent? I would prefer to leave SMC as the only ...

help! snmp without SMC!

195 byte By tyllor at 2007-11-26 5:59:20
In SOE,how to setup snmp config file (/etc/snmp/conf/snmpd.conf)to send trap to the-third party(no SMC intallation)on v880 or v480.who pls give me document for this on v880 or v480?

Monitoring!!

286 byte By Chimp00 at 2007-11-26 5:59:21
I Need to monitor the following entities....1)Linux Redhat AS 3.0 (Cpu,memory,disk,swap)2)3com 3300 switch (Runs rmon probe)3)3350 storage arrayCan SMC 3.5 monitor all of above or do I need a combination of SMC and Sun Storedge or any 3rd party tool.?

Agent on non standard port

691 byte By zeroburn at 2007-11-26 5:59:22
I'm having a problem with the agent on a specific machine, a V480 running Solaris 9. I have installed using the same image as a number of other machines, the only difference being post install I have changed the agent port from 161 to 4161 using es-config command and when the agent restarts it ...

V890 SMC Agent

226 byte By Omar@BigAdmin at 2007-11-26 5:59:23
Hi AllI've installed SMC and the hardware module for all systems other than the V890 is working. I've tried to search everywhere but cannot seem to find any modules for the V890. Any help appreciatedOmar

V880 Hardware View

389 byte By WilArtman at 2007-11-26 5:59:24
After installing SunMC v3.5 sucessfully on the server and various clients, I find that the hardware view for the V880's gives the following error:"Hardware Summary Information not available"I've verified the base and agent installations with es-validate.All other clients seem to display the ...

Upgrade from 3.5 to 3.51

169 byte By plr at 2007-11-26 5:59:25
Anybody done this yet? Any problems? Do you have to upgrade all the agents as well or can you upgrade your server console and then gradually upgrade your agents ?

Black splat on an Ultra5

778 byte By EMRP at 2007-11-26 5:59:27
Hello,I'm testing SMC35u1. Installation went fine on server and one agent (U5). In the console, the U5 icon has this black splat with the following error message:Config Reader (Workgroup Server) tree prop Failed to Update.The agent log file contains the following lines:[000002cf 0061 ]errorMar ...

Alarms not working, loading, displaying.

870 byte By sunitup at 2007-11-26 5:59:29
Hello,Did any one get to the bottom of the Alarm not appearing under SunMC? I have active alarms which do not appear under the Alarms Tab. I've tried all suggestions on this Forum, reseeding, moving agent files out the way, checking the info tab.One one system agent I get "Unable to get event ...

Retrieve Information

282 byte By plr at 2007-11-26 5:59:30
Anybody have an easy way to query the sunmc server and get it to list all its agents and their loaded modules and patch levels? There used to be a script in version 3 that did this, but it is no longer there in 3.5 and es-validate doesnt list all the agent info.Thanks

Agent on Solaris 10

558 byte By dferch_de at 2007-11-26 5:59:31
Hello,we are running SunMC 3.5up1 on Solaris 9. I installed a new server with Solaris 10 and the SunMC 3.5up1a Agent in the global zone. The agent starts fine, but I can't connect from SunMC server. I only got warnings on snmp-reports in agent.log.How can I debug this problem in a more ...

New to SMC

671 byte By ks49rcng at 2007-11-26 5:59:33
New to SMC. Have SMC 3.5 server running on a Sun-Fire-V210 with Solaris 9 OS.When I run es-validate -a <agent> -b <snmp agent port>, I get the following output.-Checking connecitivity to agent host mentioned with -a command line option-Connection to host <hostname> is alive. ...

hme0 problem

504 byte By manish_velankani at 2007-11-26 5:59:34
I have solaris 6 installed.During the time of setup it accepts the Ip which I feed and is reachable.When installation completes and I reboot the system the system becomes unreachable and there is an infoLink Down Cable problem.If I run the command "ifconfig hme0 down" then the link light starts ...

Getting config reader to work on various platforms - requirements?

1233 byte By JCricket at 2007-11-26 5:59:36
So far, it appears that on two different architectures (E250/E450 versus V210) I have had to install different add-ons in order to get config reader working so that SunMC can monitor hardware (our ultimate goal). On the E250/E450 I had to include the "Workgroup Server" add-on. On my V210 the ...

Sun Blade 100

612 byte By ks49rcng at 2007-11-26 5:59:37
Installed the smc 3.5 agent on a sun blade 100. Could create an object for the agent in the smc console but it was showing up as a file folder and only showing 2 tabs - info and module. After searching found that the Desktop add-on is needed on the server and the agent to manage a Sun Blade ...

SunMC 3.5.1 and Netra Config Reader

239 byte By Robert.Hayne@shaw at 2007-11-26 5:59:41
I have a single netra T1 10x system that when added to sunmc diplays a "Netra t Config Reader Module Status system: Data acquisition error"Has anyone seen this? I need someone to point me in a direction to resolve this issue.

I'm really tired of this now

671 byte By Elvismen at 2007-11-26 5:59:42
do anyone want to get a netra t1 105?is free, i'm can't deal with this solaris thingi setup my network with 9 server running my own DNS zone to webserver and streaming server, i buy the netra to use it as a dns server but this is next to imposible to do for me, windows is sooo easy.oh well i ...

Performance Report Manager Data Collection Issues

407 byte By todd@sae.org at 2007-11-26 5:59:43
I have an agent running and collecting data in a circular file.... history.log Data Collection has failed approximately 6 days ago without warning. I have tried to find out the issue and have not had any success. If I open the Data Collection Window in PRM I see a Yellow triangle beside the ...

Automatically running a script at intervals

709 byte By tonygi at 2007-11-26 5:59:44
Sorry if this is a simple question, but I have wracked my brains all day.And I have parsed this forum and the docs at docs.sun.com.Details: Running SMC 3.5u1I have a simple 'sh' script that performs some actions and returns zero (0)for success and minus one (-1) on failure. I have managed to ...

T3 Monitoring with SMC

306 byte By sanju149 at 2007-11-26 5:59:45
I have installed SMC 3.5 agent on a Sun Fire-V240 which is running on Solaris 9 and is connected to a T3I install the agent..but when it comes to give information of T3 it does not display any T3 I have made an entry in /etc/hosts/ and /etc/ethers fileWhat could be the ...

ICMP pings frequency

494 byte By nobodyknows at 2007-11-26 5:59:46
Hi all,I'am using SMC 3.5.1 to supervise non-SunMicrosystems boxes such as brocade switches or EMC FC4700 Service Processors with the ICMP Ping feature. It works nice ... only if the machine is down for at least 10 minutes. As a mater of fact the methods runs ping only every 10 minutes and ...

SMC 3.5 vs. Net Connect 3.2

103 byte By sgtrock at 2007-11-26 5:59:48
Is there an advantage of using SMC vs. Net Connect? They appear to provide the same information.

JASS breaks File Scan module

296 byte By glibert at 2007-11-26 5:59:49
Following install of JASS hardening driver, the file scan module is not picking up on su root failures (that appear in the log). From the console the agent appears to be working properly but file scan is not alarming on the su failures. Anyone know which hardening effort might be suspect?

Help with SunMC thresholds

5180 byte By AlanBT at 2007-11-26 5:59:51
I need some help with setting some thresholds:1Hardware/Config Reader(High End Entry Servers)/Dimms Error Count: -1 Error Rate: -1error_count: an alarm will be generated if the count of errors goes above the number specified. error_rate: an alarm will be generated if the rate of errors ...

Can not start es-guisetup

1488 byte By aelahi at 2007-11-26 5:59:52
After successfull installation of SunMC I can not run setup program SUNWsymon/sbin/es-guisetup:# ./es-guisetupjava.util.MissingResourceException: Can't find resource for bundle java.util.PropertyResourceBundle, key SETUP_INVALID_LAYERS_HEADER_TEXTat ...

SMC 3.0 - Prob in acknowledging alarms

369 byte By kfpwsun at 2007-11-26 5:59:53
Hi,I am using Sun Management Center 3.0, Solaris 8, E450 box. While tryin to acknowledge any alarms I am getting the below error. "Exception occured while acknowledging alarm Error in action on - acknowledging alarm Agent is not responding"It would be great if anyone can shed some light in ...

disable default read community string

164 byte By ida_operator_1 at 2007-11-26 5:59:54
I would like to know the procedure to disable the default read community string which is "public" and change create a new read community string using SMC 3.0

SunMC 3.5 & SunCluster 3.0

118 byte By jrente at 2007-11-26 5:59:57
Is it possible to monitoring SunCluster nodes with the basic installation of SunMC 3.5?Regards,JP

SMC in i386 platforms

200 byte By grandcanuck at 2007-11-26 5:59:59
We now use v65x servers here and there. Seems like SMC 3.5 is not available on Solaris for Intel. Am I mistaking here? Is there a way around this like another similar Sun product?Thanks.

TEC integration

292 byte By fnohejl at 2007-11-26 6:00:00
Hello,I have SMC 3.5 server management servers. I need from this server forwarding events and messages to TIvoli Enterprise Console there si on oher server. Need installl any client on SMC sever? Where I can found MIB databese for solaris?Thank youFrantisek Nohejl

reasons to upgrage from SMC 3.0 to 3.5?

583 byte By arutherford2 at 2007-11-26 6:00:03
Hi,we are currently using SMC 3.0 under Solaris 8. We are only using the Advanced System Monitoring product. We have written a number of modules. We only use the SMC console for debugging. We use the Java RMI interface to display information we grab from the agent on a Java servlet. Some of ...

SMC CIM errors..........

573 byte By paulross975 at 2007-11-26 6:00:04
Hello, I am using SMC under Solaris 9.I can start SMC with no problems , however when I try and go to the management tools to, create concats, stripes and mirrors inStorage >DisksI get an error message box with the following:Attempt to get a list of all disks failed with an unexpected CIM ...

Config Reader for v880

258 byte By pat_m at 2007-11-26 6:00:06
Hello,I'm installing a SUNMC agent onto a v880 and do not have the option to install the ELP config reader during the install. I have used the same install package to install to some V440s and V240s and those worked just fine.Any Ideas?

Config Reader on E250?

521 byte By JCricket at 2007-11-26 6:00:07
Have installed the SunMC agent on two E250's and cannot get a common config reader to load on either - it does not even show as an option. This appears to leave me without the ability to monitor hardware on these platforms.Will I get hardware alerts in this situation? Is there something I am ...

SunMC Alarm Levels

187 byte By brancato at 2007-11-26 6:00:09
Some of the alarm descriptions in the Attribute Editor talk about info alarms, warning alarms, and error alarms. How do these correlate to the caution, alert, and critical actions?

Create Logical Volume

323 byte By gearth at 2007-11-26 6:00:11
Hello, I need to create some volumes in Solaris 9 on V240 with 2 HDD. The following is the table.volume name -mount point-size-user-group-modefn_cache0-n/a-100m-fnsw-fnusr-664How do I go about to archieve that? Thank you. I really appreciate help and guidence provided in the ...

SMC 3.5U1 no alarms visible

725 byte By atomix1040 at 2007-11-26 6:00:12
Can someone tell me where are the new and old alarms placed (db, files?). I can't see any alarms in the console (cli shows me wierd things):[root@eliot:~]# es-cli> loginHost: eliotLogin: atomPassword:Login is successful.> getAlarmsThe command is currently running in the background. Run ...

Sun Blade 2000s and 3.5.1a

494 byte By ian_macd at 2007-11-26 6:00:13
A recent installation of 3.5.1a does not seem to be detecting the Blade 2000 properly. Workstation and Desktop, ELP, Netra Addon are selected. The agent shows up as UltraSPARC-III-+-) in the family name of the info tab, and only the Module Browser, and Info tab are available.Looking into it ...

SunMC agent on 6800

205 byte By spaigejr at 2007-11-26 6:00:14
Trying to configure sunmc agent on a 6800. A little unclear what I need to do. Need to configure a platform agent and agent on domain, bt not sure how to do this. Anyone get me started?thanks

Sun Management Center does not ICMP ping

161 byte By MrEd at 2007-11-26 6:00:15
I am using SMC 3.5.1 and I can get SNMP ping to work great but an ICMP does not respond even if I can ping from an xterm on the same box.Any Ideas?

Sun Fire V240

121 byte By brycelab at 2007-11-26 6:00:16
Does anyone know if SMC 3.5 can be loaded on a V240 ? I don't see it listed as a supported platform.Thanks

Sun MC Setup - execution of database make failed

706 byte By KelvinWong at 2007-11-26 6:00:17
Hi all,I am new to Sun MC. Has anyone got any clues on the error below while running the script es-setup?Regards,KelvinP.S. I have checked that the script /opt/SUNWsymon/lib/sbin/script-errors.sh is actually there, while the log /tmp/SunMCDBLogFiles/make.log cannot be found there. Output Screen ...

Performance Report Manager not posting png files

269 byte By mnlott at 2007-11-26 6:00:18
PRM on 3.5.1u1 will not generate png files for scheduled reports. However, when I run the report manually and post manually from the generated report, it works just fine. Any ideas on what I'm missing (directory ownership hasn't changed or anything like that)?

nothing shown in "Hardware" of the module browser

406 byte By KelvinWong at 2007-11-26 6:00:21
Hi all,I have installed the Sun MC server (base only) and agent on an E420R server. However, nothing is shown in "Hardware" of the module browser in Sun MC console. I have already installed these add-on products:ELP Config-Reader MonitoringWorkgroup Serverwhich are supposingly the config reader ...

Sun Management Center Processes (not running)

1043 byte By spaigejr at 2007-11-26 6:00:22
When I run es-validate on my SunMC 3.5.1 server some of the services are not running and I can not figure out why.Trap-handler service Not RunningHardware serviceNot RunningCST service Not Running (not really concerned)The very strange thing is that the following plaform agents appear to be ...

SunMC console

844 byte By hurtnn at 2007-11-26 6:00:23
How can you reinstall or remove the console component w/o wiping the entire sunmc install? Or maybe even trick either the es-install/guiinst to think its not installed so it can be reinstalled? I've tried to research this on the web and have not been able to find much. I've ran the es-inst, ...

3.5update 1a on solaris 10 v40z

655 byte By stone_beat at 2007-11-26 6:00:24
Currently, I have SunMC 3.5 installed on my server and console, running on solaris 9. I installed 3.5 update 1a straight on a v40z server running solaris 10.i also make sure i seeded the correct secret key and customize the domain-config.x on the agent before restarting the agent process, but ...