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Mid-tier Connector

The Mid-tier connector is an intermediate processing layer through which you can deploy cross-domain event policy for automated processing on events from all connectors. The Mid-tier connector is automatically installed on the SA Manager system and appears in the Data Source list of the Event Policy dialog Events tab as follows:

Event Management MidTier Connector_SAManagerserver@connectorserver

All events flow through the Mid-tier connector before reaching the Operations Console as alerts.

Deploy event policies to the Mid-tier connector in the following situations:

• You want to correlate events across domain managers. When you deploy policy on a set of connectors, correlation occurs only within each connector source. The Mid-tier connector, due to its position in the event flow, can correlate across all data sources.
• You want to perform actions on events from all domain managers. The Mid-tier connector performs actions on matching events from all data sources by default when you deploy policy to it.
• You want to perform an out of the box enrichment. These enrichments are only supported on the Mid-tier connector.
• You want to perform an enrichment that you cannot perform directly on CA Catalyst connectors, such as JDBC enrichment.