Important terminology

VMware Smart Assurance Server Manager
is an
VMware Smart Assurance
Domain Manager
, where a
Domain Manager
is a service-assurance application associated with a particular type of information-technology domain (networks, systems, applications, application services). For
, the domains are unified messaging solutions. Each
Domain Manager
is autonomous in the sense that it maintains its own data models, repository, and problem signatures, and monitors and analyzes the discovered objects in its own domain.