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CA Common Services for OpenVMS on OpenVMS

CCS for OpenVMS provides the application management environment and infrastructure to communicate with other CA solutions. CCS on OpenVMS consists of the following components:

• Installation Registry - The installation registry helps track what CA products are currently installed on a system, manages patches that have been installed, and helps determine whether a previous version of the product is on the system. It also manages dependencies between products, so a shared component is not uninstalled inadvertently.
• CCI - Provides the underlying communication infrastructure that connects applications running on OpenVMS, z/OS, AS/400, Windows, UNIX, and other operating systems together.
• CA Messaging - CA Messaging (CAM), is a robust messaging architecture that forms the basis of CA Common Services for OpenVMS, CA NSM Option, eTrust Admin Agent on OpenVMS, and other CA solutions. CA Common Services for OpenVMS uses CAM to send and receive communication data to CA NSM Manager. CA Performance Management for OpenVMS uses CAM to transfer performance cubes to one or more CA NSM Performance Management servers.
• Common Startup and Shutdown Procedures - A common startup and shutdown procedure is provided as a part of CCS for OpenVMS. These common procedures ensure that all components are started in the correct order and inform the CA NSM Manager or CCS that they are running. Although each product has its own startup and shutdown, the common procedures simplify managing each individual component.

  The CCS startup command is the following:

  @sys$startup:capoly$startup.com
  

  The CCS shutdown command is the following:

  @sys$startup:capoly$shutdown.com
  

  For more information on starting and stopping CA Common Services, see the chapter "Starting and Stopping CCS."

• Configuring CCS Startup and Shutdown Procedures - You can configure CCS for OpenVMS Common Startup and Shutdown procedures to automatically startup and shutdown various installed CA NSM components and specify the locations of where events should be directed. To perform this configuration, run the following command procedure:

  @sys$manager:capoly$set_startup_params
  

  A menu displays the components you can configure.

• Integration to Windows - CCS includes a set of integration services that handles communication between the CA NSM Manager running on Windows and the solutions running on OpenVMS. These services are responsible for the launching of X Windows GUIs on the Management station, accepting commands from vmscmd, and providing job flow information to CA NSM Job Management Job Flow Status. The integration also includes two command line executables, CAPOLY$CASEND and CAPOLY$TRAP to send events to a Windows client. For more information on capoly$trap, see the appendix "Using CCS Communications Utilities."