Systems Management Software Also Unveiled Sun is also announcing Sun Management Center 3.0, systems management software that now includes Web access, group administration, and enhanced alarm management, as well as online hardware diagnostics. The management software also offers dynamic reconfiguration capabilities that minimize downtime during upgrades and system configurations, and embedded performance management, which collects system data and performs analyses. It also integrates with system management platforms from Computer Associates, Hewlett-Packard, BMC, and Tivoli to provide device discovery and inventory, health, and performance monitoring, and proactive fault and configuration management. The company compares its cluster to the Compaq TruCluster and IBM's Parallel Sysplex supercomputers using PSSP software. Sun allows a limited-functionality version of the Sun Management Center to be downloaded without charge.
Additional functionality is licensed on a per-node basis.
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