Domain
Manager
A
Domain Manager
is a service assurance application that is associated
with a particular type of information technology domain, such as networks,
systems, applications, or application services. For IP Manager
, the domain
is IP network transport. A Domain Manager includes a Repository of
the managed topology and a problem correlation model that monitors
network elements, uses correlation technology to pinpoint the root
causes of failures, and diagnoses the effects of failures on related
elements. Domain Managers report results to the Global Manager for
consolidation, and display through the Global Console.Each
Domain Manager
is
autonomous in the sense that it:- Maintains its own data models, repository, and problem signatures.
- Monitors and analyzes the discovered objects in its own domain.VMware Smart Assurance Server ManagerIP Managerrepresents fourVMware Smart AssuranceDomain Managers:
- IP Availability Manager
- IP Performance Manager
- IP Server Performance Manager
- IP Availability Manager Extension for NASIP Availability ManagerandIP Performance Managerare examples ofVMware Smart AssuranceDomain Managers. You can choose to startIP Availability Manager(AM) only,IP Performance Manager(PM) only or a combination of bothIP Availability ManagerandIP Performance Manager(AM-PM).TheVMware Telco Cloud Service Assurance Installation Guide for SAM, IP, and ESM Managersprovides the procedure to install services manually for the underlying servers used in the IP Management Suite.