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environments relying on automated operations, including application deployment and server
monitoring.
The deployment managers exist as peers. One is considered active, also known as primary,
and hosts the administrative function of the cell. The others are backups in standby mode. If
the active manager fails, a standby takes over and is designated the new active deployment
manager. A command line utility is provided to clone the original cell deployment manager
into additional deployment managers. Each deployment manager is installed and configured
to run on a different physical or logical computer. The deployment managers need not be
hosted on homogenous operating platforms, although lik ...