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How to Maintain Existing Products

If you have existing CSIs, you can bring those CSIs into CA MSM so that you can maintain all your installed products in a unified way from a single web-based interface.

You can use the PAS and SIS to maintain a CA Technologies product.

Follow these steps:

  1. Migrate the CSI to CA MSM to maintain an existing CSI in CA MSM.

    During the migration, CA MSM stores information about the CSI in the database.

  2. Download the latest maintenance for the installed product releases from the Software Catalog tab.

    If you cannot find a release (for example, because the release is old), you can add the release to the catalog manually and then update the release to download the maintenance.

  3. Apply the maintenance.

Note: You can also install maintenance to a particular CSI from the SMP/E Environments tab.

After the maintenance process completes, the product is ready for you to deploy. You may have to perform other steps manually outside of CA MSM before beginning the deployment process.