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Infrastructure Deployment Introduction

Deployment Management (DM) is the infrastructure deployment solution within CA Client Automation. DM simplifies the infrastructure deployment of software components to a large number of target computers within a heterogeneous enterprise and eliminates the need for an administrator to manually log on, transfer installation images, run the installation process, and monitor the results of the installation on each target computer in turn.

DM provides the following benefits:

• Automatic infrastructure deployment to a range of target operating environments.
• Synchronous deployment, that is, initiating a deployment concludes with the deployed component installed and running without further human interaction. Where this is not possible, asynchronous deployment is offered, which may require a user to log on or reboot before installation is completed.
• Enhanced logging and reporting functionality. DM monitors the progress of a deployment and displays appropriate status information.
• Security features that meet the needs of current enterprise installations. Suitable authentication and encryption technologies are used to ensure that no sensitive data is accessible to third parties during network transmission or in persistent storage.
• A deployment manager, which will separate the bulk of the deployment workload from the deployment client interfaces. Multiple deployment managers can deploy to a single target computer, if necessary.
• Automatic deployment to newly discovered systems. The administrator can define rules to deploy certain software to certain systems whenever a computer appears in the network for the first time.