Adapters and
ASL
Adapters facilitate the communication of information between devices or
applications and a
Domain Manager
.
Adapters exist as either inflow adapters or outflow adapters.
- Inflow adapters collect information and send it to aDomain Manager. These adapters can be used to initialize aDomain Managerwith data such as topology information. They also can send, as they occur, event information and topology changes to aDomain Manager.
- Outflow adapters subscribe to aDomain Managerfor a set of notifications. These adapters then pass the information to devices or other applications.Adapter overview shows the flow of information through an inflow adapter, aDomain Manager, and an outflow adapter.
- The inflow adapter collects information and passes it to theDomain Manager.
- TheDomain Managergenerates notifications.
- The outflow adapter subscribes to a set of notifications.
- TheDomain Managerpasses those notifications to the adapter.
- The outflow adapter passes the information to another entity.Adapter overview

Installation directory
In this document, the term BASEDIR represents the location where Smarts software is installed.
For UNIX, this location is /opt/InCharge/
<product>
. Optionally, you can specify the root of BASEDIR to be something other than: UNIX:
/opt/InCharge
However, you cannot change the
<product>
location under the root directory.
The
Service Assurance Manager System Administration Guide
provides more
information about the directory structure.