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How Product Deployment Works

Typically, product deployment consists of the following stages:

1. Install CA NetMaster FTM. The process installs the product using SMP/E.
   1. Transfer the software to your system.
   2. Use Install Utility to install the software.
2. Set up the product for a system. The process sets up the started tasks and configures other software to work with CA NetMaster FTM.
   1. Use Install Utility to set up the following region and interfaces:
      • A management region that monitors and lets you manage your file transfer service
      • A SOLVE SSI that provides communication between the region and other software
      • (Only if you are using IBM's Communications Server) An NMFTP Monitor SSI that obtains FTP file transfer-related system management facilities (SMF) records
   2. Use Install Utility to create VTAM definitions and tables for the access method control blocks (ACBs) required by the management region.
   3. Configure the management region, interfaces, and your communications server to enable the flow of FTP events to CA NetMaster FTM.
   4. Configure other file transfer applications to enable the flow of application events to CA NetMaster FTM.
3. Start the interfaces.
4. Start the management region, and perform initial customization.
5. Implement your file transfer management environment.
   1. Define resources and rules.
      • Determine the applications that perform the file transfers you want to monitor and manage, create a system image, and define resources for those applications in the system image.
      • Determine the scheduled file transfers you want to monitor and manage, and define resources for the schedules in the system image.
      • Determine the file transfers you want to monitor and manage, create a rule set, and define rules for them.
   2. Load the rule set and system image.

   The management region starts to monitor your file transfer service based on the defined rules and resources. You can use the displays (such as the Active File Transfer Monitor for individual transfers and the File Transfer Resource Monitor for application resources) to view their status.

6. Set up user security for the management region.
7. Deploy the product on each system where you want to manage file transfers. You can then link CA NetMaster FTM on those systems together to provide a multisystem view of your file transfer activities from a single management region.

Note: Details about how to complete the stages are in the following guides:

• For steps 1 to 4, see the Installation Guide.
• For steps 5 and 7, see the Administration Guide.
• For step 6, see the Security Guide.

More information:

How You Define File Transfer Application Resources