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Notes on Infrastructure Deployment Using IPv6 Addresses

If you are going to deploy CA Client Automation infrastructure using IPv6, you should peruse the following notes:

• In order to use Infrastructure Deployment in an IPv6 environment, the following conditions must be met first:
  1. The following registry key needs to be set to 1 on the DSM manager:

     HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\smb\Parameters\IPv6EnableOutboundGlobal (REG_DWORD)

  2. Apply two hotfix updates on the Scalability Server:
     • http://support.microsoft.com/kb/947369/en-us
     • http://support.microsoft.com/kb/950092/en-us
  3. The host name of the target machine must resolve to a global IPv6 address.

     Also ensure that a reverse lookup of the IPv6 address resolves to the same host name.

  4. The Infrastructure Deployment configuration policy option, Use host names, must be set to True.

  Note: If you intend using Infrastructure Deployment to deploy software via a scalability server to any Windows 2003 machine in an IPv6 environment, then you will also need to carry out Steps 1–3 above on the intended Windows 2003 target.

  If these conditions are not met in an IPv6 only network, then the DMPrimer package must be manually installed. For more information, see the Manual Installation of the Infrastructure Deployment Primer Software section.

• Both Infrastructure Deployment and Continuous Discovery support deployment only to IPv4 address ranges.