Distribution Engine

During runtime the TIBCO ActiveMatrix Policy Director distribution engine distributes policies to nodes or TIBCO ActiveMatrix Policy Director engines, tracks governance control deployment status, and performs correction redeployment as needed.

The distribution engine handles four policy life cycle events:

Deployment- Deployment includes the following steps that the distribution engine performs.
1. Accepts a user action to deploy a policy.
2. Identify which nodes the members of the object group are deployed on.
3. Sends the policy to those nodes.
4. Waits for the policy deployment status from all the nodes.
Undeployment Undeployment includes the following steps that the distribution engine performs.
1. Accepts a user action to undeploy a policy.
2. Removes deployed policy instances from all nodes where the policy is deployed
3. Waits for the policy undeployment status from all the nodes.
Deactivate - The distribution engine accepts a user action to stop enforcing a policy without undeploying the policy.
Activate The distribution engine accepts user action to resume enforcing a deactivated policy.