What's New in Sun xVM Ops Center 2.1

The focus of the 2.1 release is to improve the quality and user experience by providing key bug fixes, integrating patches, and introducing a number of functional and usability enhancements. Fixed Issues in the Release Notes list of some of the higher visibility bug fixes.

The following are a few of the enhancements in Sun xVM Ops Center 2.1:

• Browser User Interface
• Administration
• Proxy Management
• Gear Discovery
• Gear Management
• Job Management
• Report Management

Browser User Interface

Administration

The following are the administrative enhancements:

• Sun xVM Ops Center product updates
• Enterprise and proxy controllers provide version and status

Improved Proxy Management

• Display the proxy version and status
• Set and clear the default proxy
• DHCP configuration is now possible for all of a proxy's network interfaces

  

Gear Discovery

Enhancements to custom and manual discovery.

Custom Discovery

The default proxy targeting and custom discovery enhancements include the following:

• Ability to explicitly target default proxy
• Controls what proxy manages what assets

  Manual Discovery

  Model categorization

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  • Select model category for general type
  • Enter model for detailed identification
• Port and MAC address configuration –
  • Ability to enter multiple ethernet ports and MAC addresses

Gear Management

Additional power management and configuration information:

• Power Monitoring Charts
  • Systems now monitor power consumption
  • Real-time and historical data is available
  • System groups provide power consumption of the five highest and the five lowest systems in the group
• Configuration Data
  • Each monitored asset now provides a Config tab

The Config tab displays detailed information and provides edit capabilities, including the following configurations:

• Communication protocol
• Proxy controller
• Asset reachability

Job Management

Groups are no longer required to select target systems.

Report Management

All report results, including Baseline Analysis Reports, are available for export to CSV.