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Interactions Between Citrix XenServer Management Components

The Citrix XenServer AIM is implemented as a multi-instance, remote AIM. CA Citrix XenServer AIM is able to monitor multiple standalone Citrix XenServers and Citrix XenServer resource pools remotely. The Citrix XenServer AIM is implemented as x86 and x64 module.

The management API for Citrix XenServer is based on XML RPC. For a Citrix XenServer resource pool, all XML RPC communication is taking place between the AIM, PMM, and the pool master only.

XenServer Architecture Diagram