Terminology

The
VMware Smart Assurance Server Manager
includes the following components:
  • VMware Smart Assurance
    is an
    VMware Smart Assurance
    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 Intermediate System to Intermediate System (IS-IS) network, that is, an IS-IS 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.