Domain Strategies

Domains are the highest-level construct within a server context. Domains provide individual environments within which you can create custom topology configurations. Domains are very generic. You can create a domain to represent information specific to users, environments, or any other logical division. Managed systems may appear in more than one domain, enabling multiple, overlapping domains to exist. You can therefore construct several different representations of the same management information and system resources.

Domains typically contain a hierarchical collection of Sun Management Center groups that you can use to aggregate sets of managed systems, Sun Management Center management modules, or managed objects. This hierarchy defines the visible breakdown of information in the user interface. This hierarchy also defines the rules for aggregating management status and providing this status to high-level summaries. This capability and flexibility makes domains, and the containers within them, a powerful tool for the construction of logical management models of a specific environment.