- In a system, cabinets in the Server Management network are organized into collectives.
- A CMIC VM provides Server Management services for a collective with one or more cabinets per collective. One cabinet in a collective must contain a CMIC VM hosted by a VMS.Each cabinet has a VMS. In single system and multisystem configurations, each CMIC VM in the VMS can manage a maximum of 100 nodes and servers running CMIC 12.08 or later.
- A collective contains one or more cabinets sharing one CMIC VM hosted by a VMS. A CMIC provides Server Management services for a collective.
- Each collective in the system has a unique collective ID.
- Each cabinet in the system has a unique cabinet ID.