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Configure a Subscription Client

Subscription clients download the latest CA Enterprise Log Manager updates from subscription proxies. After a client retrieves updates, it installs the downloaded components.

All CA Enterprise Log Manager servers that are not configured as subscription proxies are subscription clients, by default. You do not need to configure a server locally as a client, unless you want to override subscription settings that you have set globally.

A subscription client cannot retrieve updates from a subscription proxy until that proxy has fully downloaded and installed the updates itself. A client attempts to retrieve updates from each server in its configured proxy list in turn. If no proxy has completed installation of the updates the client requests, the client retries the request every 5 minutes until the update is successful. If the client cannot download the updates after one hour of retries, the update is canceled, and the client reattempts update at the next scheduled time. Messages appear in the Self Monitoring Events log throughout this process, alerting you to the status of the update.

To configure a subscription client

1. Click the Administration tab and the Services subtab.
2. Expand Subscription Service and select the server to configure.

   The Subscription Service Configuration for the selected CA Enterprise Log Manager server appears.

3. Identify the selected server as a client by leaving Subscription Proxy check box unselected.
4. Because subscription clients contact subscription proxies through the internal network, there is no need to configure local HTTP Proxy settings for an individual client server.
5. Click Save.

More information:

How to Configure Subscription