Contract Manager overview

The Contract Manager is a KCM component that manages connections from applications to KCM instances:

• It listens to SOAP requests, relays these requests to KCM instances, and transfers the responses back to the calling applications.
• The requests are validated and can optionally be authenticated.

For this purpose, the Contract Manager stores data about applications, instances, and the capabilities of instances.

This chapter describes what data is stored, and how this data can be managed using the ManageCM tool.