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CA Software Delivery Provisioning

The software delivery service manages communication for the delivery of operating system imaging for Windows and Linux, and application packages to UNIX, Linux, and Windows environments. The software delivery service handles all incoming operating system requests from the imaging service.

The imaging service uses the CA Software Delivery service (OSIM) to initiate an imaging process on remote Windows or Linux servers. The requests are sent to the software delivery service for imaging which then initiates the process on the target server in CA Software Delivery.

The software delivery service provides the integration to OSIM. The service retrieves OS image information from CA Software Delivery about the images that are available on the server. These images can be Windows or Linux operating systems. The Windows images can also be Ghost images. These images are then displayed and you can select from them and submit an imaging job on a client computer that you define.

This documentation assumes that you are familiar with the CA Software Delivery (OSIM) solution. All requirements and restrictions imposed by the solution are valid for CA Server Automation.