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About Agent Language Package Creation and Installation

CA Client Automation provides language-independent base packages for the Basic Hardware Inventory (BHI) agent, asset management (AM) agent, remote control (RC) agent, and software delivery (SD) agent. The language-independent base packages already include the English (ENU) language package; therefore, there is no separate English (ENU) language package.

Administrators can create their own set of agent packages using the dsmPush script and specify which agent they want with which language. This must be done on the manager computer with the DVD inserted in the disk drive.

The dsmPush script builds installable units that contain a language-independent base package for an agent role plus the desired language packages. If specified in the command line, dsmPush imports these installable units in the software delivery or infrastructure deployment libraries. Using dsmPush with the "-single" parameter, the administrator can force that only a single package is imported in the libraries.

A language package can be installed at the same time as the base package or it can be subsequently installed in a separate step. The installation of a language package runs completely unattended.

We recommend that you register language packages with software delivery and infrastructure deployment using the dsmPush script.

Note: For detailed information about the dsmPush tool, see the CLI Reference Guide.

The agent installation does not import packages into the Infrastructure Deployment library; it only installs the agent and a language package (if it is not an ENU installation). But if there are multi-language agent packages already installed, the Installer will upgrade the multi-language agents without installing a language package.

The interactive installation offers a selection of different language packages that can be installed and in which the product will operate, and which will be imported into the Software Delivery and Infrastructure Deployment software libraries.