Visualizing Your Enterprise › Discovering IPv6 Network Devices using Common Discovery › Business Process Views › Dynamic Containment Service (DCS)

Dynamic Containment Service (DCS)

The Unicenter Dynamic Containment Service (DCS) is an extension of the Business Process View concept. The Dynamic Containment Service (DCS) maintains the contents of any designated Dynamic Container object in the MDB according to a fully configurable rule-based inclusion policy.

The Dynamic Containment Service consists of three closely related components:

• The DCS Service is a Windows Service that automatically starts and stops the DCS Engine during a reboot. The DCS Service helps to ensure that the DCS Engine is running whenever the MDB is running and that your container objects are an accurate reflection of their associated inclusion policy.

  The service defaults to an automatic startup type. It can also be started and stopped manually using the Window Service Control Manager or from the command line with the following commands:

  Net Start CA-DCS 
  Net Stop CA-DCS
  

• The DCS Engine implements the policy defined for each Dynamic Container object in the MDB. The Engine detects property changes, and objects are added or removed as children of a Dynamic Container object as they conform to or no longer conform to the inclusion policy.
• The DCS Policy Wizard quickly configures the engine to maintain your designated Dynamic Container objects.You can access the DCS Policy Wizard from the Start, Programs, CA, Unicenter, NSM, WorldView group. Using the Policy Wizard, you can perform the following tasks:
  • Select the repository you want the engine to run against, and configure sign-on details so that it can run unassisted as a Windows service.
  • Specify the location and granularity of the log file that the engine generates.
  • Specify the Event Management node to which events are forwarded by the engine. You must provide a hostname, or an IP address; either an IPv4 or IPv6 address is acceptable.

    Note: If you enter a valid compressed IPv6 address, the address gets expanded to maximal extended form. But if you enter an invalid IPv6 address, an error message appears.

  • Configure the inclusion policy for any number of Dynamic Container objects you want to have dynamically maintained by the engine.

Note: Configuration changes do not take effect until you stop and restart the DCS Service.