This chapter provides a brief overview of Service Assurance Managerand illustrates its architecture.

The successful deployment of the Service Assurance Managerrequires knowledge of your operations environment and the management tools already in place. You can integrate Service Assurancewith third-party tools and existing installations of applications.

The VMware Telco Cloud Service Assurance Installation Guide for SAM, IP, and ESM Managersprovides the hardware and software requirements, as well as the procedures for installing the Service Assurance Manager.