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Specify Settings for SSA Synchronization

When you use CA Spectrum Service Assurance (SSA) to discover services for CA Business Service Insight, you can configure settings to enable automated synchronization. Automation features enable you to keep the list of services up to date, and the service data current.

Note: You must have access to the restful API in SSA to edit these settings.

Follow these steps:

1. On the Administrator menu, click Site Settings, SSA Settings.

   The SSA Settings dialog opens.

2. Enter the following information in the SSA User Authentication area:

   Server URL

   Specifies the URL for the target SSA server.

   User ID

   Specifies the User ID for the SSA server.

   Password

   Specifies the password for the SSA server User ID.

3. Enter the following information in the Synchronization Options area:

   Synchronize Automatically

   Specifies that you want synchronization to occur automatically, according to the synchronization frequency (see next paragraph).

   Set Synchronization Frequency

   Specifies the frequency to search for new services. You can indicate a value in hours or days.

   Manual Sync

   Enables doing manual synchronization from the dialog.

4. Enter the following information in the Default Data Options area:

   Default Services To:

   Allows you to set the default to managed or unmanaged for discovered services.

   Enable calculation of comparison metrics

   Enables setting the default action for setting comparison metrics for SSA services.

5. Click OK.

   Your SSA settings are activated.