The free Sun Server Management Pack for Sun's X64 servers has an updated release. Version 1.3 has added support for Windows Server 2003 and 2008 support, along with its prior support of:

• Solaris 10
• Oracle Enterprise Linux 4 and 5, 32-bit and 64bit
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5, 32-bit and 64bit
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10, 64-bit
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11, 64-bit
• VMware ESX 3.5
• Windows 2003 SP1/SP2
• Windows 2003 R2 SP1/SP2
• Windows 2008 SP1/SP2

The CLI component has new BIOSconfig utility that supports all of the operating systems listed above, except for VMware ESX 3.5

The Sun Server Hardware Management Agents and associated Sun Server Hardware SNMP Plugins provide flexible in-band management to monitor Sun x64 Server and Blade module's hardware.

Tony Kay describes the pack as one divided into two main components:

• Sun Server Management Agents component provides an SNMP agent for monitoring Sun server hardware and storage

• Sun Server CLITools component configures the host boot order and BIOSCMOS settings.

The SNMP Agent offers in-band monitoring support. Kay has written extensively about the agent.

The BIOSconfig can be used to to get current configuration settings or set configuration settings. When used to get configuration settings, BIOSconfig generates XML output showing the configuration. When used to set configuration settings, BIOSconfig reads XML input describing the configuration settings to be made.

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