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Install a CCA Grid Server on Windows

After you install the CA Configuration Automation Server, install a Grid server. A Grid server balances the workload of complex CA Configuration Automation operations such as discovery, comparisons, change detection, and rule compliance.

Follow these steps:

1. Open the dvd1 folder on the CA Configuration Automation installation media, then double-click setup.exe.
2. On the CCA Setup screen, click the Run the CCA Grid Node Installation Wizard link.
3. On the Installation Wizard Introduction page, click Next.
4. On the License Agreement page, scroll and read the agreement, select I Accept the Terms of the License Agreement, and click Next.
5. On the Windows Service Configuration page, click one of the following options. The options define the credentials that the Grid Node service uses to access Windows servers during Windows Softagent discovery using Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) services:

   Local System account

   Use the credentials that are issued on the current host system for Windows Softagent discovery.

   Note: The installation program does not use the Allow Service to Interact with Desktop option.

   This Account

   Specify a Windows domain user account and corresponding password if NDG must discover Windows Server 2008 and Vista computers in the domain. These Windows operating systems versions include WMI services that require an administrative domain user to establish a connection.

   Note: See the tables in WMI Access for Windows Operating Systems for information about what user accounts to specify in the This Account field. These tables contain information about NDG access to remote host machines using WMI in a Windows environment.

6. On the Choose Install Folder page, take one of the following actions:
   • Click Next to accept the default installation folder (C:\Program Files\CA\CCA Grid Node)
   • Type or browse to a different installation folder, then click Next.
7. On the Database Configuration page, complete the following fields, then click Next:

   Database Type

   Defines the type of database that the CA Configuration Automation Database uses.

   Server Name

   Defines the name or the IP address of the CA Configuration Automation Database server.

   For IPv6 addresses, maximal extended form and maximal abbreviated form addresses are supported. Link local IPv6 addresses are not supported.

   Port Number

   Defines the database listening port number. Take one of the following actions:

   • Accept the default port number.
   • Enter a different port number if you did not use the vendor-recommended default port number when you installed the database software.

   Default:

   • Oracle: 1521
   • Microsoft SQL Server: 1433

   Instance Name

   (Microsoft SQL Server only) Defines the database instance for the CA Configuration Automation Database.

   Default: MSSQLSERVER

   Service Name

   (Oracle only) Defines the Oracle database System Identifier (instance name) for the CA Configuration Automation Database.

   Default: ORCL

   Database Name

   Defines the name of the CA Configuration Automation Database.

   Default: cca

   Database User

   Defines the user name authorized to create or update the CA Configuration Automation Database schema.

   Default: cca

   Database User Password

   Defines the password that is associated with the specified Database User value. Retype the password in the Re-type Password field.

8. On the Pre-Installation Summary page, review your entries, then click Install.

   The installation starts. When it finishes, the program displays the Install Complete page and confirms that the CA Configuration Automation Grid Node installed successfully.

9. Click Done.

   The installation wizard closes.