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PowerCenter Domain
PowerCenter has a service-oriented architecture that provides the ability to scale services
and share resources across multiple machines. PowerCenter provides the PowerCenter
domain to support the administration of the PowerCenter services. A domain is the primary
unit for management and administration of services in PowerCenter.

A domain contains the following components:

One or more nodes. A node is the logical representation of a machine in a domain. A

domain may contain more than one node. The node that hosts the domain is the master
gateway for the domain. You can add other machines as nodes in the domain and
configure the nodes to run application services such as the Integration Service or
Repository Service. All service requests from other nodes in the domain go through the
master gateway.
A nodes runs service processes, which is the runtime representation of an application
service running on a node.
Service Manager. The Service Manager is built in to the domain to support the domain
and the application services. The Service Manager runs on each node in the domain. The
Service Manager starts and runs the application services on a machine.
Application services. A group of services that represent PowerCenter server-based
functionality. The application services that run on each node in the domain depend on the
way you configure the node and the application service.

You use the PowerCenter Administration Console to manage the domain.

If you have the high availability option, you can scale services and eliminate single points
of failure for services. The Service Manager and application services can continue running
despite temporary network or hardware failures. High availability includes resilience,
failover, and recovery for services and tasks in a domain.

Figure 1-2 shows a sample domain with three nodes:

Figure 1-2. Domain with Three Nodes

This domain has a master gateway on Node 1. Node 2 runs an Integration Service, and

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Node 3 runs the Repository Service.

Related Topics:
Administration Console

Service Manager
The Service Manager is built in to the domain and supports the domain and the application
services. The Service Manager performs the following functions:

Alerts. Provides notifications about domain and service events.

Authentication. Authenticates user requests from the Administration Console,
PowerCenter Client, Metadata Manager, and Data Analyzer.
Authorization. Authorizes user requests for domain objects. Requests can come from the
Administration Console or from infacmd.
Domain configuration. Manages domain configuration metadata.
Node configuration. Manages node configuration metadata.
Licensing. Registers license information and verifies license information when you run
application services.
Logging. Provides accumulated log events from each service in the domain. You can
view logs in the Administration Console and Workflow Monitor.
User management. Manages users, groups, roles, and privileges.

Application Services
When you install PowerCenter Services, the installation program installs the following
application services:

Repository Service. Manages connections to the PowerCenter repository. For more

information, see Repository Service.
Integration Service. Runs sessions and workflows. For more information, see
Integration Service.
Web Services Hub. Exposes PowerCenter functionality to external clients through web
services. For more information, see Web Services Hub.
SAP BW Service. Listens for RFC requests from SAP NetWeaver BI and initiates
workflows to extract from or load to SAP NetWeaver BI.
Reporting Service. Runs the Data Analyzer application. For more information, see Data
Analyzer.
Metadata Manager Service. Runs the Metadata Manager application. For more
information, see Metadata Manager.
Reference Table Manager Service. Runs the Reference Table Manager application. For
more information, see Reference Table Manager.

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