Skybox Security Skybox 5500 - Overview; Basic architecture; Related documentation

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Chapter 1
The Skybox 5500™ Appliance is a hardware solution that allows you to deploy Skybox View easily,
without the burden of maintaining your own server.
Skybox View
®
is an Automated Risk and Compliance Management (ARCM) platform that helps
enterprise IT departments to discover and resolve potential security and compliance risks before they
impact your organization.
Skybox View is a multi-tier platform. Skybox 5500 runs the Server and users run Managers (clients)
that connect to the Server over the network. Skybox 5500 also runs an additional Skybox View
component, the Collector, which connects to data sources and imports the data to the Server.
The Skybox View Server and Collector are preinstalled on Skybox 5500 and run automatically at
startup.
In this chapter
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Basic architecture
The Skybox 5500 platform consists of a three-tiered architecture with a centralized server (Skybox
View Server), data collectors (Skybox View Collectors), and a user interface (Skybox View Manager).
Skybox 5500 can be scaled easily to suit the complexity and size of any infrastructure.
For additional information, see Skybox View architecture, in the Skybox View Installation and
Administration Guide.
Related documentation
Related documentation includes:
• Skybox 5500 Quick Start Guide
• Skybox View online help
• Skybox View documentation, available in the following locations:
 On the installation DVD, in the
Docs folder
 On each Manager machine, in the
<Skybox_View_Home>/docs folder
Overview