XD Manager for OTM to
IP architecture
Figure 1-2
shows
VMware products as they relate to
.
architecture

The XD Topology Adapter imports
topology objects from OTM and IP as topology proxies. The XD Topology Adapter
imports topology from IP and from OTM servers based on data from the client’s
Inventory and Provisioning database. The XD Topology Adapter imports only the
topology elements related to the connection points between the IP and Optical
Network.
looks at topological data from the Topology Servers then
imports the cross-domain topology proxy objects from the OTM Analysis Servers
and IP.
As failures occur, analysis is
done by IP and by the
Domain Manager
s. The output of this analysis is received by
which then correlates the root cause problem of the failure to
Service Assurance Manager (SAM).