An integrated Management Database (MDB) is the critical foundation for achieving effective management solutions through information centralization and product integrations. CA delivers an integrated MDB as the foundation for integration across all management solutions. The MDB combines all data from currently distinct disciplines--operations, storage, security, life cycle, and service management--and provides the foundation necessary to manage and optimize an organization’s IT infrastructures. Customers and third-party partners can extend the MDB to store related IT management data from non-CA software products and tools.
The MDB provides a single integrated database schema for the management data stored by all CA products, both distributed and mainframe. The MDB is delivered with all CA products at no additional cost and runs on a high performance Ingres, Microsoft SQL Server, or PostGreSQL database. The single schema of the MDB enables integration of CA products without API-level programming efforts.
You can use standard database utilities to backup and restore the MDB.
Note: For more information about implementing the MDB for CA NSM, see the Implementation Guide.
Distributed Intelligence Architecture (DIA) allows a central location to manage all components and aspects of a network. DIA makes data requests and retrievals standard across different Unicenter components by providing a generic mechanism that permits the dynamic deployment of necessary files to facilitate the correct monitoring of any given system. Deployment is generic and open to growth. DIA allows for high speed, secure communications to transport data while providing remote node management and inherent failover capabilities. All out-bound communications from all DIA components can use the secure sockets provided if you enable public or private key encryption.
Note: For more information about DIA architecture, configuration, and encryption, see the Implementation Guide.
Discovery discovers and classifies devices on IP and IPX networks. It provides both an ad hoc (on demand) and continuous (real-time) mode. It provides discovery services to other CA Common Services components and updates the MDB with newly discovered and classified network objects.
When you install your product, you can use any of the following types of Discovery:
Provides on demand discovery that lets you decide which subnets you want to discover and when. You can also configure Classic Discovery to run at regular intervals, which can be used as an alternative to Continuous Discovery and ensures that your discovered environment in the MDB is always current. You can start a Classic Discovery from the Discovery Classic GUI, the Management Command Center, the Unicenter Browser Interface, or the command line.
Provides event-driven and ongoing discovery. Continuous Discovery employs a manager and agents that continuously scan your network in real-time mode for new devices or changes in IP addressing of existing IP devices. You can configure Continuous Discovery for optimal load balancing between the Discovery Agents and the Discovery Manager. If you choose this method of discovery, you must install the Discovery Agents and the Discovery Manager.
Discovers IPv6 networks. The Common Discovery Import utility discovers IPv6 networks using Common Discovery technology and imports IPv6 addresses into WorldView, where they are integrated with existing networks.
Note: For more information about Discovery, see the "Discovering Your Enterprise" chapter in this guide. For more information about Common Discovery and the Common Discovery Import utility, see the chapters "Discovering Your Enterprise" and "Visualizing Your Enterprise."
CA has performed extensive analysis on user interfaces and how various roles within a data center work effectively. The result is a variety of interfaces tailored for specific users. Using this role‑based management methodology, you can easily navigate IT complexity using scoped and meaningful visualizations.
Note: For more information about WorldView, Business Process View Manager, and Smart BPV, see the chapter "Visualizing Your Enterprise." For more information about the Desktop Management Interface, see the appendix "Support for DMI, MOM, and SCOM."
The Management Command Center (Unicenter MCC) user interface integrates all Unicenter enterprise and network monitoring functionality into a single console. The Management Command Center provides dynamic multi-viewer content relevant to any asset in the MDB by providing a workplace that integrates relevant plugins, such as Alert Management System alerts, Event Management System events, Agent events, Dashboards, and Web Reporting Services, for the tree node you select.
Note: For specific information about using Unicenter MCC, see the Unicenter MCC online help.
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