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Take Snapshot of a Deployment

After you have completed all of your changes for the deployment, you can take a snapshot of the deployment.

Note: Verify that the deployment has at least one product, system, and methodology defined.

While you are working with a particular deployment, the deployment is locked and other CA CSM users cannot perform any action against it. The lock is released when the task is finished.

If you select a deployment that is being used in CA CSM by another user, a notification message appears. You are prevented from performing any actions on the deployment. Click OK to close the notification message and select another deployment.

Follow these steps:

1. Click the Deployments tab, and on the right, in the Deployments panel, click the Under Construction link.

   The Deployment Under Construction page appears.

2. Click the Deployment Name link for the deployment you want to take a snapshot of.

   Details about this deployment window appear.

3. Click the Actions drop-down list and select Snapshot A snapshot is a copy of the set of target libraries that CA CSM makes using the IBM utility GIMZIP. CA CSM uses GIMZIP to create a compressed archive of these libraries, including a list of applied maintenance. The SMP/E environment is locked during this archive creation process to verify the integrity of the archived data..

   The target libraries are copied.

More information:

Clean Up Deployment Snapshots