In this topology, the application is clustered in custom ways. The enterprise application is deployed multiple times and it does not appear as a clustered application to the Java™ EE application server.
The Management Agent communicates with each of the management EJBs on each of the application servers on which the clustered applications are deployed. The Management Agent must be configured to know about each individual node in the custom cluster so that it can inform each application instance about configuration changes.
In this configuration, the Management Agent and Management Console are not collocated on the same computer with any particular application Server.
When there is a change in the structure of the custom cluster, the bootstrap configuration of the Management Agent needs to be updated to reflect the change in structure.