Oracle Hardware Management Pack

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Oracle Hardware Management Pack comprises two cross platform components, Oracle Hardware Management Agents - Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) hardware and storage monitoring agents, and Oracle Server CLI Tools - a family of Command Line Interface (CLI) tools for managing and configuring your servers.

The Hardware Management Pack components enable you to:

Use a cross platform management agent for in-band monitoring of your Oracle hardware over SNMP, enabling you to integrate your Oracle servers into your data center management infrastructure
Use command-line tools to configure BIOS, RAID volumes and Oracle ILOM service processors on your servers
Use a command-line tool to upgrade your server components
Use IPMItool to access Oracle ILOM service processors via the IPMI protocol and perform management tasks

Oracle Server Management Agents Features

Oracle Server Management Agents communicate directly with the embedded Oracle Integrated Lights Out Manager (ILOM) service processor. Two Management Information Base (MIB) files are included - Sun HW Monitoring MIB and Sun HW Trap MIB. Using this in-band monitoring capability provides the following features:

Sun HW Monitoring MIB

Overall system alarm status
Aggregate alarm status by device type
FRU Alarm status
Lists of sensors, sensor types, sensor readings and sensor thresholds
Indicator states
Configurable value of the system locator
Inventory including basic manufacturing information
Product and chassis information such as serial number, part number
Per-sensor alarm status

Sun HW Trap MIB

Conditions affecting the environmental state of the server such as overheating of a server or it's components, voltage or current for components being out of range
Error conditions affecting the hardware components in the server such as FRU insertion/removal, security intrusion

Oracle Server CLI Tools Features

Oracle Server CLI Tools provides cross platform command line tools that enable powerful and flexible hardware configuration and update capabilities. All Oracle Server CLI Tools use a common syntax and are capable of loading and backing up configurations into easy-to-use XML-based configuration files, making the tools ideal for use in provisioning systems. The following CLI tools are provided: