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Agent Registration

The CA ITCM agent registers with the MDB by providing the following information:

• Host name
• Host Universal Unique Identifier (UUID)
• Operating system class ID
• IP address
• MAC address

With Agent Bridge, the host UUID is provided by the legacy agent, and the legacy agent is registered to the CA ITCM system using the Agent Bridge. The agent registration method used by CA ITCM and Agent Bridge maps the legacy information to that in CA ITCM. For example, a Unicenter Software Delivery 8-byte file ID is mapped to a CA ITCM formatted, 32-byte alphanumeric host UUID. The host UUID that is generated for a legacy agent is stored in the common usage file.

If a legacy agent does not provide a unique host UUID and the UUID generator is not enabled, it is not registered by the Agent Bridge, and the agent is treated as an invalid agent.

If the UUID generator is enabled, the correct procedures for registering Unicenter Software Delivery and Unicenter Asset Management legacy agents are as follows:

To register legacy agents, some of which may not report their own UUIDs

• If both the Unicenter Asset Management and Unicenter Software Delivery agents do not report host UUIDs, then you can register the Unicenter Asset Management and Unicenter Software Delivery agents in any order. However, you need to give time between the registrations of the two agents, typically, at least five (5) minutes apart.
• If the Unicenter Asset Management agent does not report a host UUID but the Unicenter Software Delivery agent does, then you should always register the Unicenter Software Delivery agent first. Then after five (5) minutes register the Unicenter Asset Management agent.
• If the Unicenter Software Delivery agent does not report a host UUID but the Unicenter Asset Management agent does, then you should always register the Unicenter Asset Management agent first. Then after five (5) minutes register the Unicenter Software Delivery agent.

In general, the majority of Unicenter Asset Management 4.0 agents and Unicenter Software Delivery 4.0 agents report host UUIDs when registering with the server.

The registration of all legacy Unicenter Software Delivery 2.0, 3.x, and 4.0 agents is supported by the agent registration method used by CA ITCM and Agent Bridge.