Overview
The
VMware Smart Assurance Server Manager
is a specially configured instance of an
IP Manager
that
is started as a “DISCOVERY_MANAGER.” As such, the
discovers availability-type (but not performance-type)
topology objects and does no monitoring or analysis of the discovered topology.
The
provides scalable topology management for IP network
domains that contain a large number of devices. When run in normal mode with
all operating features enabled, the
performs the following tasks:
- Performs an initial discovery of the devices
- Splits the discovered devices across multiple domains that are managed by individualIP Availability Managers
- Creates a seed file of devices for each domain
- Places the devices that are listed in a domain’s seed file onto the Pending Devices list of the domain’sIP Availability Manager
- Adds proxy devices to the domains so that events from theIP Availability Managers can be stitched together correctly by the (Global Manager) to point to the common root causeGiven a large topology, like the one in Large IP network, the goal of the is to split the devices in the topology into a user-specified number of domains such that the domains are fairly equal in size and the number of proxy devices is kept to a minimum.Large IP network
Splitting a large IP network into four domains—Example is an example of a large topology that has been split by the into four domains, each of which is managed by anIP Availability Manager.Splitting a large IP network into four domains—Example
An “IP Availability Manager” may be either anIP Availability Manager(AM) or anIP Availability Managerand anIP Performance Managerrunning as a single process (AM-PM).