CA Client Automation provides a common interface and architecture for asset management, software delivery, and remote control functionalities (DSM architecture), but the integration runs deeper than the administration user interface.
Core pieces of the infrastructure are shared across the asset management, software delivery, and remote control functions and components. For example, the management database, communications, process control, logging, event management, and more are all the same when you install any two or all of the functionalities. This results in useful features and consistent terminology, architecture, interface, and data across all of the functions installed.
In addition, the DSM architecture presents a set of consistent and common concepts that are also shared across the asset management, software delivery, and remote control functionalities. These shared components include the following items:
The DSM architecture consists of the following tiers:
Provide administrative control of Client Automation and its component plug-ins. The DSM Explorer is the graphical user interface for Windows, and the Web Console is a browser-based GUI for both Windows and Linux.
Provides a single point of administration for multiple domains.
Provides all management services to lower tiers and agents.
Acts as a distribution point for software delivery and distribution activities and a collection point for asset inventory.
Provides remote control, software delivery, and asset inventory services on supported hosts.
Each manager tier hosts an instance of the management database (MDB).
The following sample illustration depicts the multi-tier architecture. In this example, an enterprise manager acts as administration point for two domain managers, which each manage directly connected agents and a downstream scalability server. The scalability servers manage the tasks between the agent and the domain manager tiers.
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