USM Schema

The USM schema provides facilities for CA Technologies and third-party management applications to do the following:

Publish USM data and receive notifications of changes
Persist and reconcile USM data
Access data through web services and application interfaces

The following illustration shows the CA Catalyst infrastructure and how data from the infrastructure displays in CA SOI:

This illustration shows the CA Catalyst infrastructure and how data from the infrastructure displays in CA Spectrum SA.

This infrastructure is critical to fully using USM semantics. Because each management product supports a limited set of management domains, none can provide a complete view of the IT and business environment. CA Catalyst facilitates the transformation of product- and domain-specific data to the USM syntax and semantics and keeps products notified of changes, additional information, and alerts published by other applications. The complete data set in the CA Catalyst store is correlated and reconciled, which creates a more inclusive and accurate representation of the environment.