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used to communicate with the BMC over serial and LAN interfaces, so software designed for in-band (local) management can be re-

used for out-of-band (remote) management simply by changing the low-level communications layer.

IPMItool

IPMItool is a simple command-line interface to systems that support the IPMI v2.0 specification. IPMItool provides the ability to read

the sensor data repository and print sensor values, display the contents of the system event log, print field-replaceable unit informa-

tion, read and set LAN configuration parameters, and perform remote chassis power control. IPMItool was originally written to take

advantage of IPMI-over-LAN interfaces but is also capable of using the system interface as provided by a Linux kernel device driver

such as OpenIPMI or a Solaris

driver called BMC, which is included in Solaris 10. IPMItool is available under a BSD-compatible

license. System Management Software is generally complex and makes platform management only part of a much larger manage-

ment picture. However, many system administrators and developers rely on command-line tools that can be scripted and systems

that can be micro-managed. IPMItool takes a different approach to SMS and provides a completely command-line oriented tool.

Therefore, it is not designed to replace the OpenIPMI library. Where possible, IPMItool supports printing comma-separated values for

output to facilitate parsing by other scripts or programs. It is designed to run quick command-response functions that can be as sim-

ple as turning the system on or off or as complex as reading in the sensor data records and extracting and printing detailed sensor

information for each record.

SNMP

SNMP management provides remote access by SNMP-compliant entities to monitor and control network devices, and to manage

configurations, statistics collection, performance, and security on a network. SNMP is a network management protocol used almost

exclusively in TCP/IP networks. The Sun Fire X4100 M2 and X4200 M2 servers provide SNMP MIBs to manage and monitor the servers

using any SNMP-capable network management system, such as HP OpenView Network Node Manager (NNM), Tivoli, CA Unicenter,

or IBM Director. The MIB data describes the information being managed, reflects current and recent server status, and provides

server statistics.

SNMP v1, v2c, and v3 will be supported. v1 and v2c will be disabled by default. v3 will be enabled by default. SNMP sets may be

enabled and disabled and will be disabled by default. SNMP traps can be generated from within the SP. An

IPMI-specific trap, called a Platform Event Trap, or PET, may also be generated. The following SNMP MIBs are supported:

• The system group and SNMP group from the RFC1213 MIB

• SNMP-FRAMEWORK-MIB

• SNMP-USER-BASED-SM-MIB

• SNMP-MPD-MIB

• ENTITY-MIB

• SUN-PLATFORM-MIB

Sun N1 System Manager

As the number of systems grow in any organization, the complexities of managing this infrastructure through its

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