A connector is software that provides the interface for data exchange between the CA Catalyst infrastructure and a domain manager. Connectors are the gateway through which data is retrieved from various domain managers for consolidated management. Each integrated product has its own connector that supports one or both of the following operation types:
Outbound from connector operations collect data (such as services, CIs, topology, alerts, and status) from the source domain manager. Data retrieved by connectors flows through the integration framework (IFW) and ActiveMQ server to the manager components. The manager components facilitate the reconciliation and display of the data on the product interfaces. All provided connectors support outbound operations.
Inbound to connector operations use records in the CA Catalyst Persistent Store to create, update, or delete items in the source domain manager. Inbound operations enable domain manager synchronization with changes spurred by CI reconciliation, CI creation, and CI updates in other domain managers. This synchronization helps reflect these changes in all domain managers. Many provided connectors support inbound operations.
You can configure, start, and stop connectors from the Administration UI.
Note: Each CA Catalyst Connector Guide contains information about connector installation, configuration, how the connector interprets data from its domain manager, and whether inbound operations are supported.
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