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How to Maintain Existing Products

You can migrate existing SMP/E environments into CA CSM to maintain all your installed products in a unified way from a single web-based interface.

You can use CA CSM to maintain a CA Technologies product.

You perform the following high-level tasks to maintain a product using CA CSM:

1. Migrate the SMP/E environment to CA CSM to maintain an existing SMP/E environment in CA CSM.

   During the migration, CA CSM stores information about the SMP/E environment in the database.

2. Download the latest maintenance for the installed product releases from the Products tab.

   If you cannot find the required release, you can perform the following steps to download the maintenance:

   1. Add the release to the catalog manually.
   2. Update the release.
3. Apply the maintenance.

Note: You can also install maintenance to a particular SMP/E environment from the SMP/E Environments tab.

After the maintenance process completes, the product is ready for you to deploy. Sometimes there are other steps to perform manually outside of CA CSM before beginning the deployment process.