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DTS and CA Common Services Integration

DTS does not require CA Common Services (CCS); however, without this solution, DTS is limited to functions that do not require or use CCS. DTS provides additional functionality by integrating with the WorldView component of CCS, which is optionally installed when you install a CA client solution that includes DTS.

Existing installations of a CCS component satisfy these requirements. For best results, we recommend that you install the most recent release of any CCS component that you use, or intend to use, from the CA Common Services files supplied by the installation program of your CA client solution.

Note: You cannot use the features of CCS if you do not install CA Common Services on at least one computer in your DTS network.

Important! When upgrading CCS by installing either Unicenter DSM or CA IT Client Manager [assign the value for rn in your book], and if discovery has previously been done under CCS r3.0 using short names (for example, executing the dscvone -n command), subsequent discovery must be carried out with the 'remove suffix' option enabled. Unless this is done, previously discovered objects and any DTS links established to them in the 2D map will be lost. The reason is that when the CCS component is upgraded to [assign the value for rn in your book], it will automatically re-discover the network and create new TCP/IP objects with Fully Qualified Domain Names in place of the original ones.

To prevent this from happening, the ‘remove suffix’ option must be enabled for dscvrbe (classic discovery) after Unicenter DSM or CA ITCM is installed, using the -3 option, as follows:

dscvrbe -3 <suffix to remove>

Example:

dscvrbe -3 ca.com

Note that there is no ‘remove suffix’ option for Continuous Discovery in CCS 11.2.

Note: For detailed information about all upgrades, see the "Upgrading and Migration Considerations" chapter in the Implementation Guide.