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Scalability Server

The scalability server provides a point of buffering and resilience between end systems (agents) and the manager and performs the following functions:

• Communicates with the domain manager to get the jobs and tasks scheduled for the managed assets.
• Provides the job and scheduling configurations to the assets.
• Stores the inventory information collected from the agents.

There may be a large number of agents to be managed, too many for a single manager to handle and also expensive as each agent will need a database client to provide data to the database. In distributed environments, the scalability server is inserted to handle huge amounts of agents in geographical segmentations. This avoids overloading the network with traffic to and from the manager as the servers act as intermediaries and relay information to and from the manager.

The scalability server has a collection of directories and files known as sectors, in which agent data files are stored. When the agent collects data, it is stored on the scalability server for processing by the DSM engine. The engine collects the information from the scalability servers and updates the domain database.

In distributed environments, the scalability server is inserted to handle huge numbers of agents in geographical segmentations to avoid overloading the network with traffic to and from the manager.