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Replicating Intellisigs

You can create your custom Intellisig definitions on the enterprise manager and can replicate these definitions. Replication helps ensure that you do not need to define the definitions separately on each domain manager.

(Optional) Modify Replication Settings for Intellisig Definitions

You can modify the default replication settings that are defined in the replication task.

Follow these steps:

1. Open DSM Explorer. Navigate to Control Panel, Configuration, Configuration Policy, Policy name and right-click the policy and select Unseal.
2. Navigate to Manager, Engines under the configuration policy.
3. Specify values for the following configuration policy parameters:

   Ignore replicated Intellisig if they are locally defined

   Controls the behavior of the replication if the Intellisig definition was previously created locally at a domain manager. If you set this parameter to true, the master definition and details from the enterprise manager are not replicated. Otherwise, the master definition at the domain manager is updated by the definition from the enterprise manager. Its domain_uuid is changed to that of the source. The existing definition at the domain manager is updated. Any existing details of the master at the domain manager are deleted. The Intellisig details from the enterprise manager are replicated to the domain manager.

   Default: False

   Convert replicated Intellisigs on unlinking

   Overrides the default behavior that deletes all replicated master Intellisig definitions and their details at the domain manager on unlinking. If you set this parameter to true, on unlinking, any replicated master Intellisig definition and details are converted at the domain manager as belonging to the domain manager. Namely, their domain_uuid is changed from that of the enterprise manager to that of the domain manager.

   Default: False

   Leave replicated software definitions

   Specifies whether the replicated heuristic and Intellisig detected software definitions must be retained at the enterprise manager when the domain managers have removed them. If set to False, they are deleted at the enterprise manager when the last domain manager reports them as deleted.

   Default: False

   Leave unreferenced software definitions on collection

   Specifies if heuristic software definitions must be left undeleted at the domain manager, on an engine collect, when their last discovered software instance is deleted.

   Default: False

4. Save and the seal the policy. Apply the policy on computers that host the DSM engine, which runs the replication tasks.

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Considerations for Using Intellisigs in an Enterprise Manager Setup

Considerations for Using Intellisigs in an Enterprise Manager Setup

An enterprise manager replicates detected software definitions and discovered software records when a domain manager is linked to the enterprise manager. After the replication process, you can view, query, report, and synchronize the information from a single location.

The following considerations apply when you use Intellisigs in an enterprise manager setup:

• Custom-created Intellisig definitions and their details are replicated from the enterprise manager to a domain manager.
• CA-defined Intellisig definitions and their details are not replicated from the enterprise manager to a domain manager.
• Products, releases, and patches that are detected by Intellisigs are replicated from a domain manager to the enterprise manager.
• If an Intellisig definition does not exist at the enterprise manager, it is created.
• Manufacturers and categories of the definitions that are detected by Intellisigs are created as follows:
  • For a detected software definition, an Intellisig script detects the manufacturer of the definition and links it to a category. These relationships are collected in the MDB of the domain and replicated to the enterprise manager. This process is simple if the replication finds a matching manufacturer or category in the enterprise manager with the same UUID as at the domain manager.
  • If a manufacturer or category of the same UUID does not exist at the enterprise manager and the manufacturer or category at the domain manager is provided by CA, a manufacturer or category of the same name and UUID are created at the enterprise manager with the source type as CA.
  • If a manufacturer or category of the same UUID does not exist at the enterprise manager and the manufacturer or category at the domain manager is not provided by CA, the replication searches for a manufacturer of category of the same name.
  • If a manufacturer or category of the same name is thus found in the enterprise manager, it is used to link with the detected definition.
  • If a manufacturer or category of the same name is not found, a new manufacturer or category is created and used to link with the detected definition.
  • The source type of a new manufacturer or category is either CA Intellisig or custom Intellisig, depending on the source type of the Intellisig. They are not replicated to any domains.
  • If categories and manufacturers of a detected software definition that were previously reported by Intellisigs have changed, they are unlinked from the detected software definitions on the domain manager. Categories and manufacturers that are linked manually remain unchanged.
• Discovered software releases and patches that are detected by Intellisigs are replicated from a domain manager to the enterprise manager.
• Heuristic and detected Intellisig definitions are deleted when no discovered software records are linked to the enterprise manager or domain manager, provided the Leave replicated software definitions configuration policy is set to is false. For more information about the policy, see Modify Replication of Intellisig Definitions from Enterprise Manager
• Any software definition category membership is replicated from the enterprise manager to the domain manager, provided that the software exists at the domain manager.

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