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Run Phase

During this phase, the connector may receive requests from the SA manager (for example, for service imports or a list of currently open alerts), and needs to publish new CIs and alerts from the domain manager. You can achieve this task by active polling or a notification mechanism, depending on what the application provides.

In this phase, the connector performs the following operations:

• Requests for service import and publishes the complete service definition, comprising at least the service CI and relationship definitions for the included CIs.
• Requests for open alerts and retrieves the open alerts for the relevant objects from the domain manager.
• Adds a CI or service and retrieves a new object created in the domain manager and publishes the CI in CA SOI.
• Adds alerts and retrieves a new alert created in the domain manager and publishes it in CA SOI.