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Deploying Adapters

This section describes the workflow procedure of how to deploy adapters (from creating to running).

There are two options to deploy adapters.

To deploy an adapter (option 1):

  1. Create the adapter in the CA Business Service Insight user interface. For more information, see Adding Adapters and Adding Offline Adapters.
  2. Schedule the adapter in the CA Business Service Insight user interface. For more information, see Scheduling Adapters.
  3. Start the adapter in the CA Business Service Insight user interface. For more information, see Starting Adapters.

To deploy an adapter (option 2):

  1. Create the adapter in the CA Business Service Insight user interface. For more information, see Adding Adapters and Adding Offline Adapters.
  2. Download the configuration file in the CA Business Service Insight user interface. For more information, see Downloading a Configuration File.
  3. Add the adapter using the Adapter Manager utility in the Adapter server. For more information, see Adapter Manager.
  4. Replace the sample configuration file that was created by the Adapter Manager utility with the configuration file that was downloaded in step 2.

    Note: Make sure to keep the name of the file that was created by the Adapter Manager utility as the name of the file after the replacement.

  5. Start the adapter in the CA Business Service Insight user interface. For more information, see Starting Adapters.
  6. Run the adapter executable by clicking the shortcut or by scheduling it using a third-party tool or by running a batch file created to run the adapter.