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Define an Endpoint as a Host in Your Enterprise

To deploy policies to your endpoints and to view their deployment status, you need to define your endpoints on the Deployment Map Server (DMS) you manage your enterprise through. When you install CA Access Control on the endpoint with advanced policy management enabled, an HNODE record that represents the endpoint is automatically created on the DMS. You should manually define your endpoints on the DMS only if you want to model the environment before installing CA Access Control on endpoints.

Important! You must use the fully qualified host name as HNODE name, otherwise the endpoint does not collect its deployments.

To define an endpoint as a host in your enterprise

1. In CA Access Control Enterprise Management click Policy Management, then Host subtab, and expand the Host tree in the task menu on the left.

   The Create Host task appears in the list of available tasks.

2. Click Create Host.

   The Create Host: Host Search screen appears.

3. Verify that Create a new object of type Host is selected and click OK.

   The Create Host task page appears.

4. Complete the following fields in the dialog:

   Name

   Defines the name of the endpoint (HNODE object). This name has to be unique on the DMS (enforced).

   Description

   (Optional) Defines a business description (free text) of the host. Use this field to record any information that helps you identify the endpoint.

   IP address

   (Optional) Defines the IP address of the host.

5. Click Submit.

   The task is submitted and if successful, a message indicating that a new host (HNODE) was created appears shortly afterwards.