Solaris Management Console
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Solaris Management Console
Solaris Management Console, aka Viper, was a Java Swing based application. I was the lead designer on the console. Other colleagues at Sun worked on the tools. The console was a bit like a browser. The tools were like applets. You could create a hierarchical view of tools that came from multiple different servers.
Early Version
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Another early version
SMC displayed inside MMC (Microsoft Management Console) - wrap your heads around that one :-).
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Nomenclature
In addition to the terms described below, there was the notion of tools (similar to MMC snap-ins). The tools were placed in categories described in an XML file called a tool box. The location of the tools was determined by a card sort test.
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Solaris Management Console 2.1
This screen shows the home toolbox (similar to the home page in a browser). It is the toolbox that is loaded into the SMC when the user first logs in. The user could create a single toolbox with tools from multiple different computers. When a user clicked on a tool from a different computer, the code for the tool would be loaded into the SMC.
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![smc1](https://stubbornflower.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/smc1.png)
Processes
The tool which displays the running processes on the system.
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System Information
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