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Deploy the Agent with CA Server Automation

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 Server Automation to deliver the deployment packages to the appropriate systems at the appropriate time.

Follow these steps:

1. Select Resources, Deploy.

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

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 Setup page 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 tab.

   The Package Wrapper Details dialog appears and lets you edit the package properties in-line. If the package wrappers are in an incomplete or invalid state, and the fields can be modified through in-line editing.

   1. Click Edit and modify the package wrapper properties.
   2. 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 some entries can be required to list all servers. When you select servers on a page and scroll to the next page, any selections that are made on previous pages remain valid.

   The Machines Selected page appears.

8. Click Set Credentials, set the system credentials that are 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. (Optional) Set the distribution server to manage the deployment. If not set, it is automatically chosen.
10. Select the scheduling options for the job:

    Immediate Delivery

    Starts the job immediately after creating new deployment job. The immediate delivery is the default option.

    Staggered Delivery

    Delivers the packages over a specific time period.

    Scheduled Delivery

    Schedules the deployment 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. Review the details of the job and click Deploy.

    The deployment 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.