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Network Topology in DXmanager Terms

For DXmanager, a Network topology consists of the following:

• Hosts (computers)
• Sites (collections of hosts)
• Regions (collections of sites)

Hosts are contained in sites, and sites are contained in regions.

When you configure a setting for an item, it becomes the default for all the items contained within it. For example, a setting defined for a region becomes the default setting for all the sites in that region (and therefore for all hosts in those sites).

DXmanager lets you define the network topology of the systems in which the directory runs.