Sun Management Center is a system monitoring solution from Sun Microsystems

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Sun Management Center (Sun MC) is a systems management and monitoring tool for enterprise-wide management of Sun servers, desktops and storage devices. It provides in-depth monitoring of Sun hardware and the most comprehensive set of metrics for the Solaris OS, including support for Solaris Containers.

Sun MC was originally named Sun Enterprise SyMON, and was co-developed by Halcyon Monitoring Solutions, Inc.

Protocols used

• SNMP
  Simple Network Management Protocol
  Simple Network Management Protocol is an "Internet-standard protocol for managing devices on IP networks. Devices that typically support SNMP include routers, switches, servers, workstations, printers, modem racks, and more." It is used mostly in network management systems to monitor...
  
   v2usec (optional encryption libraries), v1 and v3 (compatible)
• HTTP
  Hypertext Transfer Protocol
  The Hypertext Transfer Protocol is a networking protocol for distributed, collaborative, hypermedia information systems. HTTP is the foundation of data communication for the World Wide Web....
  
   with SSL
  Transport Layer Security
  Transport Layer Security and its predecessor, Secure Sockets Layer , are cryptographic protocols that provide communication security over the Internet...
  
  
• RMI
  Java remote method invocation
  The Java Remote Method Invocation Application Programming Interface , or Java RMI, is a Java application programming interface that performs the object-oriented equivalent of remote procedure calls ....
  
  
• TCP/IP for Probe Connections (adhoc commands)

Agents available for

• Solaris on SPARC
  SPARC
  SPARC is a RISC instruction set architecture developed by Sun Microsystems and introduced in mid-1987....
  
   and x86 systems
• Linux
  Linux
  Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open source software development and distribution. The defining component of any Linux system is the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released October 5, 1991 by Linus Torvalds...
  
   on x86 systems

Halcyon provides addons to extend it to monitor 3rd party applications and devices such as:

• Ericsson OSS
• Oracle
  Oracle database
  The Oracle Database is an object-relational database management system produced and marketed by Oracle Corporation....
  
  
• Java Enterprise System
• Veritas
  Veritas
  In Roman mythology, Veritas, meaning truth, was the goddess of truth, a daughter of Saturn and the mother of Virtue. It was believed that she hid in the bottom of a holy well because she was so elusive. Her image is shown as a young virgin dressed in white...
  
  
• Hitachi Storage Systems (HDS)
• Cisco
  Cisco
  Cisco may refer to:Companies:*Cisco Systems, a computer networking company* Certis CISCO, corporatised entity of the former Commercial and Industrial Security Corporation in Singapore...
  
  
• Microsoft Windows
  Microsoft Windows
  Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal...
  
  
• Linux on most platforms
• HP-UX
  HP-UX
  HP-UX is Hewlett-Packard's proprietary implementation of the Unix operating system, based on UNIX System V and first released in 1984...
  
  
• IBM AIX

Integration with other monitoring tools

• IBM Tivoli
  Tivoli Software
  Tivoli Software is the service management brand of the IBM Software Group. IBM purchased Austin-based Tivoli Systems, Inc. on March 4, 1996 and allowed existing executive management to operate Tivoli as a wholly owned subsidiary in the IBM Software Group...
  
   with Tivoli on a Sun SPARC Solaris system.
• CA Unicenter

Halcyon Monitoring Solutions, Inc. provides the following integrations for Sun Management Center

• IBM Tivoli with Tivoli on any system
• HP Openview
  OpenView
  HP OpenView was the former name for a Hewlett Packard product family that consists of network and systems management products. In 2007, HP OpenView was rebranded when it became part of the HP Software Division. HP OpenView software provided large-scale system and network management of an...
  
  
• Micromuse Netcool
• Generic Framework Integrations

Available add-ons

• Sun Cluster
  Sun Cluster
  Solaris Cluster is a high-availability cluster software product for the Solaris Operating System, created by Sun Microsystems, a subsidiary of Oracle Corporation. It is used to improve the availability of software services such as databases, file sharing on a network, electronic commerce...
  
  
• All Sun hardware
• Performance Reporting Manager for historical reporting/graphing
• 3rd Party Applications Monitoring and Extensions from Halcyon