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How the Recommended Computers Work Together

This following describes how the CA Directory components on each of these computers described previously work together.

• Administrators computer

  Each administrator and operator uses one of these computers to monitor and maintain the directory.

  Each administrator and operator connects to DXmanager and JXweb on the Directory Management server. Computers that have DXmanager and JXweb installed also need JRE installed.

• Directory Management server

  The directory management server is the computer on which you have installed the Directory Management package, which includes DXmanager.

  The administrator and operators connect to this computer to run DXmanager, JXweb, and the documentation, which are all included in the Directory Management package.

  The Directory Management components use Tomcat, which is an open-source web server. The Tomcat web server is installed as CA Directory Web Server. You must also install JRE on this computer, because DXmanager requires JRE.

  Note: Do not use this instance of Tomcat to host any other applications. It is customized to work with DXmanager only.

• Directory hosts

  A host is a single computer with CA Directory installed on it. A single host may serve one or more namespace partitions.

  You install the Directory package on each of these computers. You can also install JXplorer (which requires JRE).