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Configuring Client Automation Integration for MDM

The CA MDM Asset Integration solution involves a utility to import MDM Asset Data which is invoked by CA MDM Asset Integration Engine task. This utility uses MDM Web Services APIs and connects using HTTP/HTTPS. It fetches Asset data from MDM Server and generates Asset Collector compatible XIU files and places in the configured location. By default the configuration files are available at the below path:

CA\DSM\Bin\resources\config

Client Automation Integration for MDM is fully configurable and Extendable. You can configure and extend the XML files as necessary to accommodate new devices, schema changes, add and delete inventory fields, nodes, tables and inventory mapping changes.

Following are the types of XML files that Client Automation Asset Integration for MDM uses for generating asset inventory:

XIU_Config_Settings_<Device>

Includes the configuration to process and generate asset XIU file for each supported device type.

MDM_Config_Settings

Includes the configuration related to supported MDM devices and input path for other configuration files.

<Device>_DataKeySet

Includes the dataset key information based on MDM database schemas for each supported device type.

XIU_Schema_<Device>

Includes the data mapping information between MDM Inventory items and Client Automation inventory items for each supported device type.

Important! To modify MDM_Config_Settings, <Device>_DataKeySet, XIU_Schema_<Device> files, you are expected to have prior knowledge of data architecture of CA Client Automation and CA Mobile Device Management. For any additional help required to modify these files, contact CA Services.