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Storage Areas

To avoid unnecessary bottlenecks that can arise from directly sending the data from the agent to the domain database, you can divide storage into two different areas.

Instead of connecting to the Domain database, each managed asset connects to a scalability server and copies the data to it in a compressed ASCII text format. The engine then picks up the ASCII text file from the scalability server's collect area and processes it so that it can be put into the database structure of the domain database.

The following graphic shows how the DSM Explorer, the engine, and agents are related to the scalability server and the domain database:

The previous graphic illustrates the connections of agents and the engine to the scalability server:

• Agents connect to the scalability server to access management transactions and to report hardware and software data and their status information.
• The engine connects to the scalability server to update data to and from the domain database and to get status information on scheduled and completed actions.