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4.3 Adding scalability
Scalability means that your systems have the capability to adapt readily to the
intensity of use, volume, or demand. Designing scalability into your architecture
also allows for fail over of critical systems and continuous operation at the same
time. A lot of the availability discussion can be applied to the scalability issue as
well; the topics are all very similar. Let us take a closer look at some specific
viewpoints concerning scalability.
Access Manager component scalability
Access Manager automatically replicates the primary authorization policy
database that contains the policy rules and credentials when a new application
component, configured in local ...