ALM Architecture

ALM is a software solution, providing significant advantages over hardware appliance based solutions. There is no need to install additional 'black box' appliances to support ALM, instead it can be implemented on existing systems within the IT infrastructure. Advantages over appliance solutions include lower cost, flexibility of implementation, scalability (the ALM Starter Pack allows small initial rollouts to be gradually scaled up to major enterprise implementations very easily) and extensibility, all important features for enterprise implementations.  

The ALM architecture diagram below illustrates the flexible and secure collection features within ALM, whereby collection of log files is undertaken using a variety of methods, including fully automated and secure resident agents through to various native collection processes for network devices, firewalls and other security appliances.