Overview of notification processing

In a typical configuration of the
Global Manager
, there are two types of information sources: the
Adapter Platform
, which handles information from third-party applications, and the underlying
VMware Smart Assurance
Domain Managers. After the
Global Manager
processes the information, it forwards the results to end users through clients such as the Global Console or an adapter that sends information to third-party applications.
Flow of event information in a basic Global Manager configuration is an example of a basic
Global Manager
configuration. The lines show how information enters through either an
IP Availability Manager
(or other underlying Domain Managers) or an
Adapter Platform
, is passed to a
Global Manager
, and finally is passed to an end user or application. Note that the figure does not show the connection that transports topological information between the
IP Availability Manager
and the
Adapter Platform
.
Flow of event information in a basic
Global Manager
configuration
The
Adapter Platform
imports topology and event information from third-party applications and prepares it for use by the Global Manager; data from third-party applications should not be sent directly to the
Global Manager
. The
Adapter Platform
creates notifications from the incoming information and can even associate these notifications to topology information supplied by another
VMware Smart Assurance
application. This connection is not shown in Flow of event information in a basic Global Manager configuration.
Efficient notification processing presents the most important information to the operator who uses a Global Console. One of the goals of deployment design is to plan to optimize the flow of notifications sent through the system. This improves the performance of the deployment and the performance of the operators who use
VMware Smart Assurance
products.