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Deployment Triggered by Continuous Discovery

The feature to deploy software whenever new systems are discovered is based on the CA Common Services Continuous Discovery feature. The CA Common Services Distributed Intelligence Agent (DIA) is used to retrieve events each time a new system is detected. The Continuous Discovery feature is switched on after the user has created at least one policy to describe which package is supposed to be deployed to which target computer dependent on the IPv4 address and operating system of the machine. The policies can be defined in the Continuous Discovery Deployment Policy wizard, which is similar to the Infrastructure Deployment wizard.

The discovery process is as follows:

• A system connects to the network for the first time.
• The Continuous Discovery service detects the new hardware and, using its heuristics, classifies it and creates a managed object representing the system in the WorldView repository.
• In response to the new data arriving in the database, a trigger is executed that registers the event in a special (dedicated) event table.
• The Client Automation discovery application that has subscribed for those events is notified.
• The discovery application checks the continuous discovery policies if the detected system is targeted to receive new software and calls the deployment interface that is similar to the way DMSweep works.

Note: For the Continuous Discovery feature, configure Microsoft SQL Server with the default port 1433 on the domain manager.