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Engine Concept

An engine is a process that provides communications services between scalability servers and the domain manager and the management database.

The functions of an engine include the following:

• Collecting computer inventory from a scalability server
• Writing configuration data to a scalability server
• Copying of data between enterprise and domain databases (replication)
• Performing dynamic query group evaluation
• Performing actions related to query group evaluation
• Executing scheduled reports
• Communicating inventory job status