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New Monitoring Tool Developed Purely in Java, Uses JMX

Inspect is a new monitoring tool included in Sun Grid Engine (SGE) Update 3. It is a flexible interface for viewing current and historical data about SGE cluster(s) and the Service Domain Manager. The new GUI-based monitoring tool is developed purely in Java and uses JMX. This means an SGE installation has to enable JMX. Users interested in using Inspect must have version 6+ of the following software: Sun JDK, OpenJDK, IcedTea, and Apple JDK.

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Virtualization Gets Increasing Share of Attention from Users Seeking to Manage Consolidated Apps

Many organizations are seeking ways to better utilize computer systems, writes Ellard Roush in the introduction to his Sun BluePrints article “Zone Clusters — How to Deploy Virtual Clusters and Why” in which he writes that these organizations are discovering that virtualization technologies provide a safe way to consolidate multiple applications on a single system. The paper introduces the zone cluster, a virtual cluster in which a Solaris OS Zone is configured as a virtual node. The zone cluster supports the consolidation of multiple cluster applications on a single cluster.

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