October 1, 2008: New Early Access IPM Client Released

Question

All,
We have just released to production a new EA client. This includes support for a few additional platforms, a more consistent and standardized installation method, and a few critical bug fixes that should make deployment more routine.
Please review the client bundle README for details, including how to download/install, and a listing of supported platforms.
Regards,
Michael Sims, PM
Network Services Engineering
******************** IPM 0.5 (Early Access) README ********************
Intelligent Power Monitoring Service is a Smart Energy solution for the
data center that makes it possible for customers to determine how to
improve power efficiencies by assessing energy consumption, cooling and
load utilization of server and storage devices.
How to Get Started
STEP 1: Download the IPM Software bundle
In order to enable IPM service in your data center, you have to
download the IPM Software bundle. You can download the bundle from the
link - http://power.sun.com/. You will be prompted to login using your
Sun Online Account and accept the "Evaluation License" agreement. You
will just have to install this on the management host/system and not on
every system.
The IPM bundle will contains the SASM and IPM packages.
STEP 2: Install, Configure and Activate the IPM service on your systems.
Please follow the instructions provided in the SUNWipmdc-INSTALL.txt
that are part of the package that you have downloaded to
complete this step.
STEP 3: View Reports on the Portal
Once you are done activating the service, you will be able to monitor
power consumption for your systems in the Portal. Please login to the
Sun Network Services Portal - http://power.sun.com/, with your Sun
Online account. Here you will be able to view Power consumption reports
for the systems you have enabled the service.
YOUR FEEDBACK
We would like to get your feedback on problems you find with this IPM
Software for the Solaris release. Your feedback will help us as we put
together a higher quality release to be made available from www.sun.com
in the near future.
A special forum has been setup for this purpose:
http://forums.sun.com/forum.jspa?forumID=929
Please post your comments/questions there.
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
IPM EA software runs on Solaris 10 for SPARC(TM) and Intel platforms.
Sun Platforms Supported for Data Collection
Sun Fire 6800
Sun Fire v445
Sun Fire X4100
Sun Fire X4500
Sun Fire X4600
Sun Fire T1000
Sun Fire T2000
Sun Fire T5440
System Performance Recommendations
For Example:
Sun Fire 2100 or Sun Fire T1000 for class 1 (up to 500 systems) with 1 GB RAM
Sun Fire 4100 or Sun Fire X4150 for class 2 (500 to 2000 systems) with 1 GB RAM
Disk space : 50 MB
OS : Solaris 10
Java : JDK 1.5 or higher
INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS
Please refer to the SUNWipmdc-INSTALL.txt
DOCUMENTATION
The following IPM EA documents are available online:
* http://power.sun.com
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Edited by: [email protected] on Oct 1, 2008 12:02 PM

Answer 1

Only a suggestion, see if it reproduces with JDK 1.5.0_08 or later.
E.G. http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6411717