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Use Staging Systems

A staging system is a virtual system that you can use to deploy and configure product before activating it on a target system. If the target system is the same as the CA CSM driving system, the software is activated locally. To use a staging system, the CA CSM driving system must be registered in the CA CSM system registry.

You should use staging systems when you want to perform the following tasks:

• Deploy outside your firewall, so that you copy data sets to a known location and then you can back up and ship to another site. For example, deploy to a staging system and then manually copy the deployment to tape.
• Prepare your installed software to use on systems outside the scope of CA CSM managed systems.
• Create model systems for replication to other than CA CSM network locations within your enterprise.
• Test a deployment quickly.
• Build a configuration for a system that SCS cannot access. For example, configure a product on a staging system. Then, transmit the configuration from the staging system to a remote target system and manually activate it.
• Create an environmental testing system or sandbox

Business Value:

CA CSM lets you use staging systems for performing many tasks that ultimately provide you flexibility in building and executing deployments and configurations according to the needs and specifications of your environment.

More Information:

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