SMP/E Environments Tab

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SMP/E Environments Tab

The SMP/E Environments tab lets you manage the SMP/E environments on your system:

You can identify the products installed in an SMP/E environment.
You can accept or back out applied maintenance.
You can add information about an existing environment to CA CSM.
You can delete an environment.

You can select your environment using the Search and SMP/E Environments sections on the left side:

You can select the information you want from the tree on the left side.
You can search for an environment or FMID.

The top level of the tree lists the environments on the right side. You can perform the following actions:

You can select a number of environments as your working set.
You can display only those SMP/E environments that are in your working set by clicking Show Working Set Only.

The SMP/E Environments tab contains the following actions:

Add to Working Set or Remove from Working Set

Adds or removes the SMP/E environment to or from your working set.

Change Name

Edits the name of an SMP/E environment.

Edit Tags

Assigns one or more tags to an SMP/E environment. You can then use the Show drop-down list to list the environments selectively by tag.

Set Automatic Update

Configures settings for automatic downloading and receiving CA RS maintenance packages based on information in downloaded CA RS files.

Note: Only CA RS maintenance packages that are applicable to the SMP/E environment are evaluated. Those packages that are not yet installed and are not present within the software catalog are downloaded.

User ID

Specifies the user who runs the automatic download.

Note: You can only select the ID of the user who is currently logged in to CA CSM. CA CSM saves the user password in an encrypted form in the CA CSM database.

CSO Credentials

Specifies credentials of the user ID on the CA Support Online website.

Recurrence

Defines the frequency of downloading CA RS maintenance packages for SMP/E environment installed products.

Update Software Catalog Every number of Days

or

Update Software Catalog On day of week Every number of Weeks

Defines the frequency of downloading CA RS maintenance packages for SMP/E environment installed products, in days or weeks, depending on the value of Recurrence.

Note: Imagine you set the recurrence for a specific number of days and you set the time that precedes the current time. Then the first update occurs in the specified number of days at the specified time. For example, on Monday at 10.30am, you set the number of days to 3 and time to 07.00. The first update then occurs on the third day, Thursday, at 7.00am. When you set the time past the current time, the first update occurs on the same day at the time set. For example, on Monday at 10.30am, you set the number of days to 3 and time to 11.00. The first update then occurs on that Monday at 11.00am.

System Time

Specifies the system time when a download process for CA RS maintenance packages for SMP/E environment installed products starts. The system time reflects your CA CSM application server time zone. The TZ parameter within Tomcat startup libraries defines the time zone. If the TZ parameter is not defined, the CA CSM application server time zone defaults to GMT – Greenwich Mean Time.

Local Time

Identifies local time calculated based on the system time that you set.

Update Using Fix Categories

Starts the wizard for applying maintenance to SMP/E environment products based on FIXCAT.

Upgrade CA RS Level

Starts the CA RS maintenance wizard for the selected SMP/E environments. The wizard helps you install CA RS maintenance packages for SMP/E environment installed products and update their CA RS level.

Delete SMP/E Environment

Deletes all data sets related to the SMP/E environment from the system.

Exception SYSMOD Report

Issues the REPORT ERRSYSMODS command. This command helps you determine whether any SYSMODs you have already processed are now exception SYSMODs, and whether any resolving SYSMODs are available for held SYSMODs.

Note: You must have write access rights to the SMP/E environment that you issue the command for.

Create LIST ALLZONES Report

Issues the LIST ALLZONES command. This command creates a report that provides information from the SMP/E environment global zone and all of the target and distribution zones that the ZONEINDEX subentries define.

Remove SMP/E Environment from CA CSM

Deletes the information about the SMP/E environment from CA CSM, enabling you to clean up your list of SMP/E environments without deleting them from the system.

Create Deployment

Starts the wizard for creating a deployment.

Note: These actions are also available when you right-click an SMP/E environment in the left panel. For SMP/E environments whose data sets have been deleted, the only available option is Remove SMP/E Environment from CA CSM.

Selecting an environment displays its information in subtabs:

Installed Products that lists the products that are installed in the environment
SMP/E Environment Information that displays information such as the data set name and zones
Maintenance that lists maintenance for products installed in the environment
Pending Installations that lists pending tasks for products being installed in the environment

The tab contains the following links in the Actions section on the left side:

Migrate SMP/E Environment

Migrates an existing SMP/E environment to CA CSM so that CA CSM can manage the products installed using that SMP/E environment.

For example, you have an SMP/E environment created by other means. After you migrate that SMP/E environment to CA CSM, you can use CA CSM to apply maintenance on the installed products in that SMP/E environment.