Sun Solaris–Network

This connector provides the monitoring of network cards on all Sun Solaris systems.

Target

Typical platform: Sun Fire (SPARC)

Operating system: Sun Solaris

Instrumentation layer: Sun Solaris system commands (kstat, ndd, ifconfig, etc.)

Technology used: System commands

Discovered objects

●Network cards (SEN_HW_NETWORK)

Parameters collected

●SEN_HW_NETWORK / Status

●SEN_HW_NETWORK / Link Status

●SEN_HW_NETWORK / Link Speed

●SEN_HW_NETWORK / Duplex Mode

●SEN_HW_NETWORK / Received Packets Rate

●SEN_HW_NETWORK / Transmitted Packets Rate

●SEN_HW_NETWORK / Error Count

●SEN_HW_NETWORK / Received Bytes Rate

●SEN_HW_NETWORK / Transmitted Bytes Rate

This connector is able to monitor the local host and/or a remote system.

Credentials

This connector probably requires root privileges for its proper operation. You therefore will need to configure the product to use the root login/password to execute external commands. Alternatively, you can configure the product to use the sudo utility for the following commands:

●/usr/bin/kstat

●/usr/sbin/ndd