Octave Orgeron wrote: > What I meant what the such things have been left to 3rd party tools and > products by Sun. That should change. Monitoring and administrative tools are > essential and should be robust out of the box. >
I know what you meant, I was trying to be funny. I think we're of the same mind that a variety of Solaris features are lacking polish out of the box. I'd go further to say that Sun has done a poor job of providing that polish via add on products, and it seems like the only way it ever gets high level features at all is through acquisitions, which seem to whither and die after the fact.... Management Center is a good example. I would personally like to see us/Sun put polish on: * LDAP & Kerberos (We need an easy to use, easy to manage, easy to deploy AD alternative) * NFS Security (consequence of better Kerberos) * SNMP (what we're discussing here) * FMA (still not robust enough) * SMF * ZFS Monitoring Hooks * Extended Accounting tools * BSM Auditing work that stalled (namely, an audit server to avoid using local NFS mounted audit trails) * ... Too many users are creating custom tools and not opening them. Just adding GNOME panels or focusing on GUI's isn't really useful, we need easy to use CLI tools that make users successful very quickly and easily. benr. _______________________________________________ perf-discuss mailing list perf-discuss@opensolaris.org
