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Prepare CA Server Automation for Reservation Manager

Configure CA Server Automation to prepare the material that Reservation Manager uses to create its inventory and fulfill reservation requests. To prepare CA Server Automation for a Reservation Manager setup, do the following:

1. Select the software packages to make available for deployment.
2. Discover all systems that you used to test CA IT Client Manager (CA ITCM) Operating System Installation Management (OSIM) imaging. Select the Resources tab, right-click a system in the Explore pane, and select Provisioning to provision an image to systems for the Reservation Manager inventory.
3. Deploy the CCA Agent to all of the systems discovered in Step 2. Verify that the agent collected system detail information such as MAC Address, number of CPUs, available memory, and disk space.
4. Create as many services as necessary to provide the appropriate level of control. Add the systems that you want to make available to Reservation Manager to these services.

   The Reservation Manager imports these services to create resource pools of systems that users can reserve. The Reservation Manager controls access to systems at the service and resource pool level and other usage policies.

   Configuring services requires you to install the Automation Management Framework that is provided with CA Server Automation. The Automation Management Framework optionally runs CA Server Automation actions during reservation setup or tear-down processing.