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Architecture

This chapter presents an overview of the architecture of asset management, including brief descriptions of its various components and some features.

The following graphic shows the DSM architecture:

Illustration displaying the DSM architecture

The scalable multi-tier architecture of CA ITCM can accommodate any size organization, large or small. The architecture is robust, as all asset information is managed at each domain manager, and if replicated to the enterprise manager, the assets can be managed from the enterprise manager according to the standard replication rule.

This section contains the following topics:

Enterprise Manager

Domain Manager

Agent

DSM Explorer

Common Application Framework (CAF)

CA Message Queuing (CAM)

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