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How to Set Up the System Registry

The system registry is a repository of variable data that all CA MSM managed products share. The system registry repository contains information about the systems that have been defined to CA MSM and selected as a target for deployments and configurations. You can create non-sysplex, sysplex, shared DASD cluster, and staging systems. You can maintain, validate, view, and delete a registered system and you can investigate a failed validation.

For each system that you register, there is one entry. Each entry consists of three categories of information: general, network locations, and data destinations.

You perform the following tasks to set up the system registry in CA MSM:

1. Add systems to the system registry.
2. Validate systems.
3. Define network locations.
4. Set up data destinations.
5. Define environment profiles.
6. Set up remote credentials.

Add and then validate each nonstaging system in the enterprise that you are deploying to, to the CA MSM system registry. You can only send a deployment to a validated system.

This process applies to each nonstaging system in your enterprise. For example, if you have five systems at your enterprise, then perform this process five times.

Note: After a system is validated, there is no need to validate it again. However, you can revalidate a system any time.