Job Management Partner 1/Integrated Management - Manager Overview and System Design Guide

1.5.2 JP1/IM system hierarchy

The systems managed by JP1/IM consist of managers that administer the system as a whole, agents that run on the monitored servers, and viewers that perform monitoring and operations.

You can centrally manage the system hierarchy using the IM Configuration Management functionality provided by JP1/IM - Manager. For example, you can define a hierarchical structure, and then distribute the configuration definition information you have created to each host in the system.

Alternatively, you can define the system hierarchy using the configuration definition information in JP1/Base in the usual manner.

In a JP1/IM system, managers can be arranged hierarchically to enable integrated management of systems whatever their size - from a small system serving a regional office to a large-scale system serving the entire enterprise. This allows you to add hosts to those being monitored, and makes it easy to migrate a small system to a large-scale hierarchical system.

Figure 1-22 Scalable system hierarchy

As shown in the above figure, you can build a hierarchical system by arranging base managers and relay manager under an integrated manager. To configure a hierarchical system, JP1/IM - Manager must be installed on the integrated manager host, base manager hosts, and relay manager host.

The types of manager hosts configured in a JP1/IM system are as follows:

Table 1-4 Types of managers in a JP1/IM system

Type of manager host Description

Integrated manager Positioned at the top of the system hierarchy. The integrated manager host manages the base managers, relay managers, and agents (other than those under a base manager) in the system hierarchy as a whole.

Base manager Positioned at an intermediate level between the integrated manager and agents when agent hosts are managed on a site basis. The base manager host manages lower-level agents, and is itself managed by the integrated manager.

Relay manager Positioned at an intermediate level between the integrated manager and agents to collect events generated at the agent hosts. The relay manager and lower-level agents are managed by the integrated manager.

Type of manager host	Description
Integrated manager	Positioned at the top of the system hierarchy. The integrated manager host manages the base managers, relay managers, and agents (other than those under a base manager) in the system hierarchy as a whole.
Base manager	Positioned at an intermediate level between the integrated manager and agents when agent hosts are managed on a site basis. The base manager host manages lower-level agents, and is itself managed by the integrated manager.
Relay manager	Positioned at an intermediate level between the integrated manager and agents to collect events generated at the agent hosts. The relay manager and lower-level agents are managed by the integrated manager.

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