VMware Smart Assurance
architecture

The
VMware Smart Assurance Server Manager
is a fundamental part of all
VMware Smart Assurance
deployments. As shown in Smarts Service Assurance Manager deployment architecture, it consists of the following components and relationships:
  • The
    Global Manager
    (
    Service Assurance Manager
    ) is a manager of managers that provides end-to-end views of the status of your managed IT environment. The
    Global Manager
    consolidates and abstracts topology, analysis, and events from various sources, including
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    Domain Manager
    s such as
    IP Availability Manager
    and
    IP Performance Manager
    . In addition, the
    Global Manager
    serves as an integration point for the
    VMware Smart Assurance
    products.
  • The
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    Business Impact Manager
    allows you to create and relate business-level objects, such as departments, services, and customers, to applications and network infrastructure. The
    Business Impact Manager
    can then determine the business impact of infrastructure failures on business services and their users. The
    Business Impact Manager
    is installed as part of the
    Global Manager
    . The
    Business Impact Manager
    has undergone an architectural change, that is, the analysis has been separated into separate processes.
  • The
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    Global Console is a user interface that provides information about
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    analysis: root-cause failures, notifications, topology, and even business views. The
    Global Console
    also provides configuration and administration controls. This functionality can also be provided to a web browser by using a Java applet as the
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    Web Console. Both the Web Console and
    Global Console
    connect directly to the
    Global Manager
    .
    The
    Global Console
    , Web Console and
    Business Dashboard
    are installed from a separate CD.
  • The
    Business Dashboard
    is a flexible, business-oriented alternative to the Web Console. With the Business Dashboard, a collection of
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    analysis data can be displayed with important data from other sources on an organization’s web page. Each component of
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    data is referred to as a Dashboard viewlet, which connects directly to the
    Global Manager
    .
  • VMware Smart Assurance
    Adapters (SAM Adapters),
    (
    Adapter Platform
    ) and
    (
    ) provide
    VMware Smart Assurance
    software with additional sources of data when monitoring a network. The
    Adapter Platform
    normalizes and consolidates data from adapters before it is passed to the Service Assurance Manager. This guide covers deployment of the
    Adapter Platform
    and specifically describes two adapters that send data to the
    Adapter Platform
    : the
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    SNMP Trap Adapter
    and the
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    Syslog Adapter
    . The
    provides deployment information, configuration instructions, and client tool examples on the
    .
  • (
    ) supplements existing functionality in SAM,
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    Network Configuration Manager (NCM) and Watch4net Automated Performance Grapher (APG). The
    is a VMware®-based appliance, that is, a virtual machine. In a solution, one
    is deployed for one presentation SAM server. The
    provides detailed information about installing and configuring the
    .
    Products such as the
    IP Manager
    and the
    include
    Domain Manager
    s that discover or monitor objects for a particular domain.
    The
    Domain Manager
    s use Codebook Correlation Technology™ to perform root-cause analysis for the related domain. These domains forward topology and events to the
    Global Manager
    , which in turn provides this information in a consolidated and abstracted manner to the
    Global Console
    .
    Design and deployment of the underlying
    Domain Manager
    s is not covered in this guide. Individual product deployment guides provide information on deploying underlying Domain Managers.
    deployment architecture