Whitepaper IBM FSM - Cenit AG Systemhaus

3. the aRchitectuRe
3.1 fsM seRVeR and agents
07/2010 | © cenit
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fsM – application
Management for ibM ecM
FSM has a client / server architecture, which is designed to minimize the workload on the managed
systems. Server and client both consist of two components – a monitoring component (client and
server) and an infrastructure component (client and server).
The execution of predefined remote tasks is handled by the FSM Infrastructure Agent, which is
installed on the managed system. The communication between FSM Infrastructure Agent and FSM
Infrastructure Server is TCP/IP based and secured by certificates and SSL encryption. All remote
tasks are initiated and authorized by the FSM Infrastructure Server.
The collection of events is handled by the FSM Monitoring Agent. The communication between Monitoring
Server and Agent is also TCP/IP based and encrypted. (For further details, please see the
FSM Encryption Whitepaper).The processing of events is handled by the FSM Monitoring Server.
Events are stored in the Event Database, where they can also be kept for historical analysis. The
user authentication can be handled FSM internally or FSM can be connected to LDAP systems,
like Microsoft Active Directory Services, Tivoli Directory Services, Sun Directory Server or Novell
eDirectory.
For the FSM Management Server and Management Agents, as well as the Monitoring Server and
Monitoring Agents, the following Operating Systems are supported (FSM V4.0.1).
The FSM Server can also be deployed in a virtualized environment, e.g. run on VMWare or LPAR.
For the Event Database FSM V4.0.1 supports DB2, MS SQL Server and MySQL.
[FSM V4.5 will support DB2, Derby, MS SQL Server and Oracle for the Event Database.]
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