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How Deployment Works

The Deployment Management component lets you deploy CA ITCM agent components and software to target computers in your organization. This section describes the procedures for the Infrastructure Deployment Wizard; for information about using the deployment manager (DMDeploy) directly, see the Implementation Guide.

To enable the deployment process, do the following:

1. Log on to the computer on which the DSM Explorer or CA ITCM Web Console is installed. The DSM Explorer contains the Infrastructure Deployment Wizard and other graphical user interface components.

   Note: For more information about the CA ITCM Web Console, see the Implementation Guide.

2. Use the Infrastructure Deployment Wizard to select what software packages to deploy and to configure the settings for the deployment.

   During the selection process, the Deployment component scans the target computers to determine the following:

   • If a user name and a password are needed to access the target.
   • If the component is already deployed, in which case CA ITCM does not attempt to install the agent.
   • If the agent can be deployed, in which case CA ITCM prepares to copy the installation files to the target computer.
3. After you complete the Infrastructure Deployment Wizard pages, click Finish.

   The deployment job starts, and CA ITCM copies the installation files to the target computer and installs the agent.

You can view and change the status of your deployment jobs by logging on to the computer on which the DSM Explorer is installed and using the Deployment Job Status pane to view or change the status of a job.

Note: If you require deployment via Telnet/FTP and will be using IPv6, then your FTP server cannot be based on any Windows machine that is running IIS 6.0 or below, because FTP in IIS 6.0 does not support IPv6. The FTP server can, however, be based on a Linux computer that is running a version of FTP that supports IPv6, for example, vsftpd-1.2 or above. For more information about IIS 6.0 supported environments, see the Microsoft web site at www.microsoft.com.