System Configuration

This section describes the system configuration of this software.

Overview of the Manager and Agent

This software is comprised of the Manager and the Agents.

The Agents are positioned between the devices and the Manager, and sends data retrieved from devices to the Manager and accesses devices according to commands from the Manager.

The Manager registers device information collected by the Agents to a database. It also controls tasks for devices and sends notifications to the Agents. Users can operate the Manager via a web browser.

Example System Configuration

This section describes the example system configurations according to the number of devices to manage.

Small to Medium-Scale System Configuration

Example System Configuration

Devices: 1 to 5,000

Computers to install the Manager and Agent of this software: 1

Link with the following server as required.

Mail server (SMTP server)

Operation Method

The Manager and the Agent are installed to a single server computer.

Large-Scale System Configuration

Example System Configuration

Devices: Several thousand to several tens of thousands

Computers to install the Manager of this software: 1

Database server (SQL Server): 1

Computers to install the Agent: Several

Link with the following server as required.

Domain server (LDAP server such as Active Directory)

Mail server (SMTP server)

Operation Method

Allocate the Agent so that the number of devices managed by a single Agent is 5,000 or less.

Information for the devices on the network is collected to the Manager via the Agents and centrally managed.

The domain server is used as the authentication server when linking with an external LDAP server is enabled in this software.

The mail server is required when using the mail notification function of this software.

NOTE
One Agent can also be installed to the same computer as the Manager.