Sentinel is composed of the following component subsystems, which form the core of the functional architecture:
Section A.3.1, iSCALE Platform: An event-driven scalable framework.
Section A.3.3, Event Source Management: An extensible framework built to manage and monitor connections between Sentinel and third-party event sources, using Sentinel Connectors and Sentinel Collectors.
In addition to ESM, there are a number of subcomponents that are hosted by a distributable service called the Collector Manager. This service can be installed on a number of systems to balance the processing load or for scalability. The data collection components are downloaded from the Novell Content Web page and are installed to the Collector Managers via a central ESM interface.
Section A.3.4, Application Integration: An extensible application framework.
Sentinel treats both “services” and “applications” as abstract service end points that can readily respond to asynchronous events. Services are “objects” that do not need to understand protocols or how messages get routed to the peer services.