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Install CA Network Discovery Gateway

Follow these steps:

1. Double-click setup.exe in DVD1 of the CA Configuration Automation installation media.
2. On the Setup window, click the CA Network Discovery Gateway Installation Wizard link.

   The application displays one of the following screens:

   • The Prerequisites screen informs you that the required WinPcap 4.0.2 program is not installed on the host. Click Install Now to install WinPcap.
   • The Welcome wizard page.
3. Click Next.
4. On the License Agreement page, scroll and read the agreement, click I accept the terms of the License Agreement, and click Next.
5. On the Installation Location page, accept the default location (C:\Program Files\CA\SharedComponents\NDG) or browse to a different location, then click Next.
6. On the Windows Service Configuration page, click one of the following options to specify the credentials that the CA Network Discovery Gateway service (candgateway.exe) uses to access Windows servers during Windows Softagent discovery with Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) services:

   Local System account

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

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

   This Account

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

   Note: See the NDG Remote Accessibility to Remote Hosts tables in WMI Access for Windows Operating Systems for information about which 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.

7. On the Network Discovery Agent port page, accept the default port (8081) or enter the appropriate port number, then click Next.
8. On the installation summary page, review the summary details.
9. (Optional) Click Previous to return to other wizard pages and update them.
10. Click Install.

    The installation process starts. When it finishes, the installation complete page confirms a successful installation.

11. Click Done.

    The installation wizard closes and the Setup window reopens. Unless you are installing the CA Configuration Automation Server on a Linux or UNIX operating system, you can install any other required component from the Setup window.

Install Network Discovery Gateway Manually or Silently

You can silently install the CA Network Discovery Gateway (NDG) from a Windows command window. Silent installation requires that you first run the NDG installation program interactively in the record mode to create a response file called install.properties. The file saves your responses to the installation program prompts, then provides the information to the installation program during subsequent installations.

To install NDG from the command line and create an install.properties file

1. Download and install WinPcap from http://www.winpcap.org/.
2. Open a command window.
3. Open a command window and navigate to the following location on the installation media:

   dvd1\NDG

4. Start the install program with the following command:

   installndg.exe –r c:\<path_to_file>\install.properties

   The installer.properties file is created in the specified directory, the installation program starts, and displays the Introduction page (or the Missing Prerequisites page if required software is not detected).

5. Respond to the installation program prompts.

   NDG is installed using the information you provide. This information is also recorded in the install.properties file for future use.

To silently install NDG using the install.properties file

1. Download and install WinPcap from http://www.winpcap.org/.
2. Start the installation program with the following command:

   installndg.exe -i silent -f c:\<path_to_file>\install.properties

   The installation program starts, then searches specified directory for the install.properties file. If the file is located, it provides the values required by the installation program.

Notes:

• You can query the following registry entry to determine if CA Network Discovery Gateway is Installed:

  [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\CA Network Discovery Gateway]"UninstallString"="\"C:\\Program Files\\CA\\SharedComponents\\Network Discovery Gateway\\Uninstall\\Uninstall CA Network Discovery Gateway.exe\""
  

  If the key is found, CA Network Discovery Gateway is installed.

• The silent command-line uninstall is defined in the UninstallString registry entry in the previous bullet.

  By default, it runs in the same mode that the installation program used (that is, if the install was done silently, the uninstall also runs silently.

• To ensure the uninstall program runs silently, append the -i silent parameters to the string read from the registry. For example:

  "C:\Program Files\CA\SharedComponents\Network Discovery Gateway\Uninstall\Uninstall CA Network Discovery Gateway.exe" -i silent