Components must work together to complete a service request
successfully.
Figure 1. Components running a service
The diagram shows how components work together to run a service:
- A user accesses the manager by using a browser.
- The manager verifies the user credentials and connects the user
to the latest Optim directory that the user accessed or to the default
Optim directory.
- The user accesses service management in the manager to view a
list of services.
- The manager connects to the Optim directory and retrieves the
list of services.
- The user selects a service to run from the list of services in
service management.
- The manager forwards the service request to the server to which
the service is assigned.
- The server processes the service request. Depending on the type
of service, the server might request and receive additional service
information from the Optim directory, access data from a data source,
read and change files that are stored on the server computer, and
write data to a data source.
- The manager reads the service status from the server computer
and updates the Optim directory.
- A user accesses the manager to determine whether a service completed
successfully.
- The manager reads the service status from the Optim directory
and displays the service status to the user.