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active manager is stopped or fails, a standby manager takes over and is designated the new
active deployment manager.
The benefit of the highly available deployment manager function is that it eliminates the
deployment manager as a single point of failure (SPOF) for cell administration. This SPOF is
important in environments that have significant reliance on automated operations, including
application deployment and server monitoring.
For more information, see 10.10, “Highly available deployment manager” on page 334.
5.3.2 Autonomic managers
With Intelligent Management, you can introduce autonomic capabilities into your
infrastructure at your own pace. Autonomic capabilities ...