Scalability Server

The scalability server is a CA ITCM component which resides between the agents and the domain manager. It serves several purposes:

Collect registration information from agents and pass it to the manager
Distribute configuration policy from the manager to the agents
Store agent data

There may be a large number of agents to be managed, too many for a single manager to handle. CA ITCM breaks down this task by distributing groups of agents to multiple servers. The servers then act as intermediaries and relay information to and from the manager.

The scalability server has a collection of directories and files where it stores agent data files. When the agent collects data, it is stored in the server for processing by the DSM engine. The engine is a component whose purpose is to collect information from servers and place it into the domain manager’s database. A similar communication takes place when the configuration policy of an agent is modified in the DSM Explorer.