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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 test 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. (Optional) 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.

Setup and Configuration

Proper setup and configuration of Reservation Manager is outlined in this section.

Predefined Content and Configuration for Service Provisioning

In this release, some service provisioning functions performed in CA Server Automation are effective in Reservation Manager. Service templates are predefined in the CA Server Automation Core UI. Reservation Manager reservation templates are created based on the service templates. You can make reservations for services from the Reservation Manager UI or the CA Server Automation portal interface.

To provide predefined service provisioning, the following actions are performed:

• The OnDemand resource pools are predefined for AppLogic and VMware Virtual Center supported platforms. When a vCenter server is configured in the CA Server Automation portal, the ESX server resources are added to the OnDemand Resources pool.
• The Service Administrators org unit is added and configured to access the OnDemand Resources pools.
• The Reservation Templates are automatically created from any service templates that are predefined in CA Server Automation.

  Note: Navigate to Reservation Templates and use the wizard to view the detail of the predefined reservation templates.