Release Notes › New Features and Enhancements of the Previous Release 12.7 › Remote Deployment

Remote Deployment

In this release, CA Server Automation supports the following features:

New Platform Support

SystemEDGE support for RedHat Linux on IBM Power PC using Remote Deployment.

Deployment Reports

Provides a new report to get Deployment Job Status for a given distribution server over a timespan. Report Component Selection and Jobs Selection provide various report generation options.

Deployment to Managed Nodes through Context Menu

Lets you open the remote deployment job wizard. The job wizard deploys only to the selected node as the target.

Updates to Jobs Panel

Provides paging, filtering, sorting and other customizing support for the job detail.

Support for Deploying the AIMs

Provides a default package wrapper that allows deployment of the following AIMs:

• High Availability Cluster Multiprocessing (HACMP) AIM
• Citrix Xen Server (XEN) AIM

Common Job Tracking Portlet

Provides enhanced job tracking of Remote Deployment jobs.

Enhanced Search Results

Provides swift access to Remote Deployment operations under search results.

Multi-NIC Support

Supports multiple NICs in deployment jobs.

Updates to Deployment Job Wizard

Removal of EULA in the Job wizard

Updates to SystemEDGE Package Wrapper

Updates to validate SNMP community strings in wrappers