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Sun Management Center
To monitor health of Sun Systems, you can install Sun Management Center
3.6.1 from
http://www.sun.com/download/index.jsp?cat=Systems%20Administration&tab=3&subcat=Systems%20
Management
It is available for free.
If you are looking for something specific, give some more details.
‐Ganesh
Teamquest
Bhavin,
We use a combination of ways to check the health of our systems, we use
the afore mentioned SunMC which actually is best suited for availability
monitoring, we use Teamquest (http://www.teamquest.com/ ) for performance monitoring and
homegrown
scripts for both.
Slightlines
Kurt
Not a procedure, but we use Sightline Systems software to monitor our systems' health in real time and
we can graph events also. You can check it out at their web site http://www.sightlinesystems.com
Script Based
From solarispedia
http://solarispedia.com/index.php?title=Script:Solaris_10_health_check
Syscheck.ksh
syscheck.ksh is a tunable systems health check script for Solaris.you can put in cron, to email you
if you are running out of resources. http://www.bolthole.com/solaris/
Manual/Command Based
Article01
physical checks if there are any fault LEDs on the system, check from the OS level (prtdiag ‐v) and the
system controller if there are any errors or faults.
Check the HDD status from iostat ‐E output and scan thru the messages file and console logs for any
warnings or critical errors.
Performance monitoring should also be done for network links, CPU, memory , swap and time drifts for
NTP..
Hi..
For solaris monitoring purpose u can use below commands like
iostat,
vmstat,
prstat,
netstat
top
and sar commands.
Otherwise if you need full of GUI monitoring tool u can use orcallator for solaris/linux or nay unix
environment.
It will give daily,weekly,montly,yearly,all monitoring information it will contains.
Regards,
ArjunReddy
Sources
http://unix.ittoolbox.com/groups/technical‐functional/solaris‐l/sun‐mc‐health‐check‐1613710
http://solarispedia.com/index.php?title=Script:Solaris_10_health_check
http://www.unix.com/solaris/98650‐sun‐server‐health‐check.html
Other Sources
http://albanianwizard.org/linux‐system‐health‐check.albanianwizard