This chapter describes how to deploy Application Connectivity Monitor. Planning the deploymentThis section describes about the deployment planning. Installing the softwareVMware Smart Assurance suites must to be correctly installed and functional. Integrating Application Connectivity Monitor IC Domain Configuration objectsThis section illustrates the Global Manager Administration Console and IC Domain Configuration objects. Specifying the underlying domainsAn administrator uses the IC Domain Configuration objects to specify the underlying Application Connectivity Monitor, IP Availability Manager and Adapter Platform domains an Application Connectivity Monitor deployment. Doing so provides the sources of topology and events for the Global Manager and associates each underlying domain with the proper DXA file. Loading the XML configuration file for IC-ACM managerBy default, the XML domain configuration file for IC-ACM is loaded into the Global Manager, meaning that by default it is available to a Global Console attached to the Global Manager. If for some reason the XML domain configuration file for IC-ACM is not available, perform the procedure in this section to load it.