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Deploy the Agent with CA Virtual Assurance

The Implementation Guide and Online Help describe the deployment of agent packages from the user interface in detail.

To deploy agents to systems, create a deployment job. Deployment jobs contain the details that are required for CA Virtual Assurance to deliver the deployment packages to the appropriate systems at the appropriate time.

To create a deployment job

1. Select Resources, Deployment.

   The Deployment pane displays the Packages, Templates, and Jobs folders.

2. Right-click the Jobs folder in the Manage Resource pane and select Create New Job. You can also select the Jobs folder and Click + (New) on the Job Status toolbar.

   The Jobs wizard appears.

3. Enter a name in the Job Name pane and optionally base the job on an existing template, and click Next.

   The Package Selection page appears.

4. Select a platform and the packages you want to deploy.
5. (Optional) Click the Details link. The Package Wrapper Details dialog appears and lets you edit the package properties in-line. Package wrappers can be in an Incomplete or Invalid state and they can be corrected through in-line editing. Click Edit, modify the package wrapper properties, click Save, and then click OK.

   The package wrapper properties are updated.

6. Click the down arrow to add the package wrappers to the job, and click Next.

   The Machine Selection page appears.

7. Select the systems to deploy to and click Next. If you have many servers in your environment, multiple pages with a certain number of entries can be required to list all servers. When you select servers on a page and scroll to the next page, any selections made on previous pages remain valid.

   The Machines Selected page appears.

8. Click Set Credentials, set the system credentials required to establish a connection and click Next.

   Note: Deployment to Windows target systems using domain credentials must be in the form of DOMAIN\username.

   The Advanced page appears.

9. Set the distribution server to manage the deployment. If not set, it is automatically chosen.
10. Select the scheduling options for the job; Immediate, Staggered over a specific time period, or Scheduled for a specific time in the future.
11. (Optional) If a package has previously been successfully deployed to a system using this deployment infrastructure, you can force it to run again.
12. Click Next.

    The Summary page appears.

13. Read the End User License Agreement (EULA), and select the check box Accept EULA for all packages. Accept the agreement for the job creation to succeed.
14. Review the details of the job and click Deploy.

    The job is created.

Note: You can save the job as a template after you create it. A template saves the package and machine selections so that you can easily reuse them for subsequent jobs. See the Online Help and the Implementation Guide for further details.