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Inactivate the CA Cohesion CCA r5.0 MDR

If you want to import CIs and relationships from CA Configuration Automation to CA CMDB, and if you are using CA Cohesion ACM r5.0 already, inactivate the CA Cohesion ACM r5.0 MDR in CA SDM.

Note: This action deactivates all the Federated CI Mappings for CA Cohesion ACM r5.0. View the Federated CI Mappings list in the Federated CI Mapping node in the Administration tab.

Important! If you want to retain both CA Cohesion ACM r5.0 and CA Configuration Automation r12.8 as active MDRs, do not inactivate the r5.0 MDR. CIs imported from CA Configuration Automation r12.8 reconcile to existing CIs imported from CA Cohesion ACM r5.0. For those CIs that are imported from both CA Configuration Automation r12.8 and CA Cohesion ACM r5.0, both of these MDRs appear as MDR buttons on the CI detail page.

Follow these steps:

1. From the Administration tab, navigate to CA CMDB, MDR Management, MDR List.

   The MDR List appears.

2. Open the MDR that you want to deactivate and click Edit.

   The Update MDR Definition page appears.

3. From the Active drop-down list, select Inactive and click Save.

   The MDR is inactivated.

Create a CA Configuration Automation r12.8 MDR

Before importing CIs and relationships from the CA Configuration Automation server to CA CMDB, you define a CA Configuration Automation MDR.

In the following example procedure, the XML specifies an MDR Name of localhost and an MDR Class of CCA r12.8. These values are required before you import the CIs.

Follow these steps:

1. From the Administration tab in CA SDM, navigate to CA CMDB, MDR Management, MDR List.

   The MDR List appears.

2. Click Create New.

   The Create New MDR Definition page appears.

3. Complete the fields with the following example values:
   • Button Name—Enter a button label, such as CCA-R12.8.
   • MDR Name—Enter the local host name of the CA Configuration Automation server, such as myccaserver.
   • MDR Class—Enter CCA r12.8.
   • Active—Select Active from the drop-down list.
   • Owner—Enter CMDBAdmin.
   • Description—Enter a description about the server, such as CCA server in Chicago.
   • Hostname—Enter the hostname of the CA Configuration Automation server, such as cca_server.
   • Port—Enter the port of the CA Configuration Automation server, such as 8080.
   • Path—Enter the URL path of the CA Configuration Automation server, such as cca/CCAUI.html.

     http://<hostname>:port/cca/CCAUI.html

   • Parameters—Enter the parameters in the format type=ci{federated_asset_id}.

     CA Configuration Automation populates the federated_asset_id in CA CMDB with the following string:

     &objtype=object type&name=name&component=component name&path=comp_qualifier

     The object type, name, and component name values are specific to CA Configuration Automation objects, such as in the following example parameters:

     type=ci&objtype=server&name=myserver.ca.com&component=Cohesion%20Server

   • URL to launch in Context—Enter http://{hostname}:{port}/{path}?{parameters}

     Note: (Optional) Modify the URL syntax to handle special requirements.

     The following displays an example URL:

     http://myccaserver:8080/cca/CCAUI.html?type=ci&objtype=server&name=myserver.ca.com&component=Cohesion%20Server

4. Click Save.

   The MDR is created.