What to read next OverviewThe Smarts Application Connectivity Monitor (ACM) provides discovery and monitoring of applications and their components. It can be used externally by integrators/developers to create application management tools for which packaged products are not currently available. Architecture and process flowApplication Connectivity Monitor receives information from several sources: events from software element checks, and topology/events from the Adapter Platform. The Application Connectivity Monitor Domain Manager correlates this information and sends the root cause and impact analysis as well as topological information to the Global Manager.