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Integration with CA Service Desk Manager

The integration of CA Client Automation with CA Service Desk Manager makes CA Client Automation a Service Aware application, meaning that CA Client Automation can trigger on certain events of its Managed Assets and create tickets in CA Service Desk Manager.

Ticket creation and workflow in CA Service Desk Manager is controlled by the Service Aware policy, which enumerates a list of problem types. CA Client Automation uses problem types to categorize the problem and to address the ticket to be created.

CA Client Automation and CA Service Desk Manager provide graphical user interfaces that allow context-sensitive launches of each other for the integration.

This chapter describes setting up and configuring the system and security and authentication aspects. The configuration considerations apply for DSM domain and enterprise managers.

For details on CA Service Desk Manager, for example problem types, see the CA Service Desk Manager documentation set.

This section contains the following topics:

Service Aware Policy

Ticket Handling

Associating Discovered Assets with Owned Assets

Context Launch Between Client Automation and CA Service Desk Manager

Context Launch from CA Service Desk Manager to Client Automation

Setting Up CA Service Desk Manager and Client Automation

Prerequisite for In-context Launching of CA Service Desk Manager

Prerequisites for CA Service Desk Manager Integration with Multiple Engines

Prerequisites for CA Service Desk Manager Integration with Enterprise Manager

About Client Automation and CA Service Desk Manager Integration

Secure Logon to the CA Service Desk Manager Web Service

Settings in the Configuration Policy