Course Description

     This course is a comprehensive introduction to Sun's most advanced systems management software. Developed and taught by Halcyon, the co-developer of Sun Management Center technology, this course has been delivered to Sun professional services and system engineers, as well as Fortune 500 companies worldwide for the past 5 years.

     Beginning with an overview and the key features of Sun Management Center, the course provides general information to those participants not familiar with Sun Management Center. From there, participants are guided through the installation and setup of Sun Management Center. Large scale deployments as well as development to production deployment paradigms are also discussed. Participants also learn how to use Sun Management Center by creating and managing domains, navigating topologies, loading modules, monitoring hardware, customizing alarm attributes and alarm actions, graphing data values, and managing alarms. This course also discusses all the available Sun Management Center addons and integrations steping through each individual module. A deeper understanding of the product is provided by disclosing the architectural details.

    Currently Halcyon is offering Fundamentals of Sun Management Center as a 4 or 5 day course. The 5 day course extends the standard 4 day course outline to include the Sun Management Center Developer Environment and discusses the details of module building.

     To reinforce the contents of the lectures, participants are encouraged to complete hands-on lab exercises.

    Upon completion, participants will be able to:

	Install and configure Sun Management Center
	Deploy Sun Management Center
	Create and administer topology domains
	View and monitor Sun hardware
	Perform advanced module management tasks
	Customize Sun Management Center alarms and actions
	View and modify object attributes
	Create and view graphs
	View and manage alarms
	Understand Sun Management Center security
	Understand Sun Management Center architecture
	Tune Sun Management Center parameters for optimal performance
	Manage complex networked systems
	Troubleshoot problems
	Module Building (Day 5)

Prerequisites

    Participants should have some proficiency with UNIX and the Solaris operating system.

Course Outline

    The following is a list of major topics covered as part of this course:

Sun Management Center Introduction      Overview      History      Key Terms and Concepts      Key Features (Versions 3.6 and 3.6.X)      Value Proposition      Product Comparisons (IBM, HP, Dell, and Compaq)      Installation and Configuration      Installation and Setup      Starfire Installation Overview      SunFire Installation Overview      SunFire 15K-25K Installation Overview      Configuration Files      Troubleshooting      Migration from 3.x to 3.6.1      Sun Cluster Overview Sun Management Center Addons      Advanced System Monitoring (ASM)      Premier Management Applications (PMA)      Service Availability Manager (SAM)      System Reliability Manager (SRM)      Performance Reporting Manager (PRM)      Configuration Service Tracker (CST)      Sun MC Container Manager      Halcyon PrimeAlert Products for Sun MC      3rd Party Products for Sun MC      Sun MC Integrations (Overview of IBM Tivoli, HP Openview, Micromuse         NetCool, BMC Patrol, CA Unicenter, Halcyon XMS Portal) Host Monitoring and Management      Console Overview (Java GUI, Web Interface, CLI)      Module Management (Loading/Unloading Modules)      Attribute Editor (Alarm Thresholds, Actions, Refresh Intervals, Data Logging)      Time Editor      Graphing      Dataviews      Host and Module Security Domain Administration      Populating Domains (Discovery, Object Creation)      Remote Domains      Domain Security      Group Operations and Module Configuration Propagation (MCP) Server High Availability      Sun MC Server High Availability      Backup Server Configuration      Switching Server Layers Architecture      Architecture Details      Inter-Process Communication      Cross Server Context Communtication      Firewall Issues Production Deployment      Production Rollout Methodology      Multiple Agent Rollout (Jumpstart Overview, es-terminal)      Backup Procedures      Fine Tuning Developer Environment      Sun MC Developer Environment Overview      Module Building (Day 5)

Practical Work

    Hands on experience with Sun Management Center is gained through the numerous labs provided as part of the course. Students will benefit as the labs will provide them with a step-by-step instructions booklet that can be used as a reference to do the most common Sun Management Center tasks.

The following is a list of labs conducted as part of this course:

Sun Management Center Labs      Sun Management Center Installation      Configuration Files and Diagnostics      Host Monitoring      Sun Management Center Modules      System Reliability Manager (SRM) Modules      Halcyon Modules      Administrative Domains      Group Operations and MCP      Security      Command Line Interface (CLI)      Performance Reporting Manager (PRM)      Module Building (Day 5)