The Service Manager is built in to the domain and supports the domain and the application services. It runs on each node in the domain.
The domain functions that the Service Manager performs on a node depend on the type and role of the node.
For example, the Service Manager running on:
Example of domain functions:
When a node has the service role, the Service Manager starts application services configured to run on that node. It starts and stops services and service processes based on requests from Informatica clients.