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Prerequisites and Recommendations

Following are the prerequisites for setting-up the integration environment:

  1. .Net Framework 4.5 or higher is installed on the computer where the engine is installed.
  2. Verify and ensure that Asset Collector is enabled and running. To enable and start the Asset Collector run the following commands:
    1. caf enable assetcollector
    2. caf start assetcollector
  3. Make a note of the MDM server name and user credentials. The user specified while creating CA MDM Asset Integration Engine Task must be able to access the MDM server. Create CA MDM Asset Integration Engine Task.
  4. Output folder or path to be used for generated asset XIU files, can be configured as the path for Asset Collector to directly pick-up the asset files. Or you can set the specified output-path value to an existing collector folder for Asset Collector. It can be network path (UNC path) in case of remote Asset Collector is being used. For more information please see the section “Customize XIU_Config_Settings Files”
  5. It is recommended not to use Run Always scheduling for CA MDM Asset Integration Engine task , considering the high amount of disk space utilization, usage of memory and CPU cycles resulting slow performance and the impact on the other tasks.