Sun Fire SysControl sensor

The Sun Fire SysControl (SC) sensor discovers domains that are configured on Sun Fire systems.

The following information is obtained from the system controller on the Sun Fire system:
  • Remote configuration administration operations
  • Board assignments and board status
  • Current usage statistics for Capacity on Demand (COD) resources
  • System board devices and resource usage information
  • System controller (SC) failover status or role
  • Platform type, board available component list, the domain state for each domain, and Capacity on Demand (COD) information

Sensor name that is used in the GUI and logs

SysControlSensor

Security issues

The TADDM service account must have platform administrator privileges, which means that the account is a member of the UNIX group platadmn. Any user who is a member of the platadmn group has privileges to run the following System Management Services (SMS) commands:
  • rcfgadm
  • showboards
  • showcodusage
  • showdevices
  • showfailover
  • showplatform