Customers can extend agent functionality to create self-correcting actions based events, for example. Its unique configuration management capability controls dynamic reconfiguration, dynamic system domains, and other key system elements. Using the Sun Enterprise SyMON console, an administrator can change certain configurations of the systems without interrupting critical applications. Further, users can monitor and manage system resources to provide the highest level of availability for mission-critical applications. Sun Enterprise SyMON software uses a dynamic agent-based framework that lets users develop custom modules that appear on the console.
Users can add modules without having to bring down the entire system.
For example, if a user wants to monitor a database in their financial department, they can now do so easily. The unprecedented degree of flexibility and adaptability lets users change thresholds, add new components and write system management agents, resulting in better management of the IT infrastructure for lower costs. The system also features simple, secure access to the network with multiple views. Users can customize access to Sun Enterprise SyMON software depending on the user's level of authorization. The logical element grouping feature allows systems to be grouped by application or business process rather than managed as unrelated systems.