Introduction › Serviced Systems You Can Monitor and Manage › Management and Monitoring Tasks

Management and Monitoring Tasks

When you connect to a serviced system, your workstation or terminal acts as the console of that system, and from it, you can perform any management tasks you can normally perform from the local console, such as the following:

• Shut down or reboot the serviced system
• Run standalone diagnostics
• Perform standalone backup operations
• Install and upgrade layered products

You are not limited by the operating system you are running.

Console Manager lets you monitor console activity and do the following:

• View current console output remotely
• Review historical console output
• Search for console data based on time stamps, events, and text strings
• Retrieve historical console data from archive for printing
• Scan console data for text strings that denote events of specific interest (if using Event Notification Services)

Information about serviced systems must be stored in the configuration database; otherwise, you will not be able to access them. The configuration database is discussed in Chapter 4, “Modifying the Configuration Database.”