OEM User's Guide

Introducing the Open Enterprise Management
Server
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Features of the OEM Server Version 3.0
The following figure shows the basic Open Enterprise Management architecture and
component pieces:
This design has the following architectural benefits:
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Encapsulates the client interface
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Minimizes the impact on client applications wanting to participate in enterprise
management
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Provides an adapter interface to enterprise management frameworks
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Provides client integration with enterprise management frameworks
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Provides state arbitration between multiple clients
Features of the OEM Server Version 3.0
OEM Server 3.0 includes the following enhancements and new features:
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The ability to supply user-configurable icons for OEM entity and state information.
All OEM windows, including Alerts and Custom Views, will utilize the specified
icons. In addition, any change to the OEM icon set is automatically communicated
to all clients and adapters, making it easy to keep the icon sets within the various
components in sync.
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Enhanced Client Request API, Adapter Request API, OEM Callback API, and
Client Callback API. All of these APIs now include a SetIcons method, which
adapters or clients can utilize to cause the OEM to utilize a different icon set.