Sun MgmtCard

Prerequisites

This chapter describes the prerequisites installation needed by plugins to run.

Centreon Plugin

Install this plugin on each needed poller:

yum install centreon-plugin-Hardware-Servers-Sun-Mgmtcards

The plugin has 3 kind of modes, it depends of the sun management card to monitor :

• Telnet:
  • Dependency: Perl Module Net::Telnet (yum install perl-Net-Telnet.noarch)
  • Host macros: 'TELNETUSERNAME', 'TELNETPASSWORD'
• SSH:
  • Dependency: 'plink' command (no ssh key exchange needed)
  • Host macros: 'SSHUSERNAME', 'SSHPASSWORD'
• IPMI:
  • Dependency: 'ipmitool' command (yum install ipmitool)
  • Host macros: 'IPMIUSERNAME', 'IPMIPASSWORD'

Sun Server Hardware List

Host Template	Method	Hardware	Mgmt Card
HW-Server-Sun-Alom4v-SSH	SSH	T1xxx, T2xxx	ALOM4v
HW-Server-Sun-Ilom-SSH	SSH	T3-x, T4-x, T5xxx	ILOM
HW-Server-Sun-Alom-TELNET	Telnet	v240, v245, v440,...	ALOM
HW-Server-Sun-Sf2xx-TELNET	Telnet	sf280	RSC
HW-Server-Sun-Sfxxxx-TELNET	Telnet	sfXXXX (sf6900, ScpApp sf6800, sf3800,...)	RSC
HW-Server-Sun-V4xx-TELNET	Telnet	v4xx (v490, v480)	RSC
HW-Server-Sun-V8xx-TELNET	Telnet	v8xx (v890, v880)	RSC
HW-Server-Sun-Ilom-IPMITOOL	Ipmi	x4100,x4600,...	ILOM

My Sun Hardware is not the list

Following hardware can be also monitored:

Hardware	Host template Service
Mseries	HW-Server-Sun-Mseries-SNMP Linked with the host template
sf12k, sf15k, sf20k, sf25k	HW-Server-Sun-Sfxxk-PSSH Linked with the host template
v120, v1280 and others OS-Solaris-NRPE	OS-Solaris-Prtdiag-Status-NRPE-Custom

Centreon Configuration

Create a host using the appropriate template

Go to Configuration > Hosts and click Add. Then, fill the form as shown by the following table:

Field	Value
Host name	Name of the host
Alias	Host description
IP	Host IP Address
Monitored from	Monitoring Poller to use
Host Multiple Templates	Template provided by the Monitoring Connector

Click on the Save button.