Service Assurance
Manager architecture
Smarts Service Assurance Manager
architecture illustrates the
VMware Smart Assurance Server Manager
Service Assurance Manager
architecture. 
architecture
abstracts topology information and
cross-correlates and consolidates event information from distributed
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applications and third-party applications.
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applications are responsible for discovering and
monitoring infrastructure elements, and correlating event information within
their respective managed domains.
Service Assurance Manager
, other
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applications, or third-party applications communicate
by way of a shared Information Bus that employs the
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Common Information Model™ (ICIM). After
abstracts high-level views of the distributed
topologies from the underlying applications, it correlates, consolidates, and
integrates event information collected from the applications, and enriches the
event information with the severity of the events.
Event information (for example,
root-cause problems and their impacts and severities) are displayed in the
Notification Log Console, Topology Browser Console, Map Console, or Summary
View Console. From these consoles, operations personnel can invoke diagnostic
or corrective tools, store the information for management and operations
reports, and send the information to third-party applications.