Terminology

The Smarts
includes the following components:
  • Smarts
    is a Smarts
    Domain Manager
    . A
    Domain Manager
    is a service-assurance application associated with a particular type of information-technology domain, such as networks, systems, applications, or application services. For
    , the domain is the Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP) network, that is, an EIGRP distributed application that is running in an IP network. 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.