Changing Agent Versions

The versions of the agents being used in your environment may differ from the defaults provided because they are dependent on the version of CA IT Client Manager that you are using. If this situation occurs, change the versions of the agents when deploying additional management agents. This process provides steps to change the version of agents listed in the casdaconf.cfg file.

After you change and save the file, restart the Apache HTTP Server for the changes to take effect.

The casdaconf.cfg file contains attributes that tell which packages to install for a particular operating environment. These attributes are used for deploying Additional Mgmt Agents and have the following format:

AutoDeploy:<platform>:<SD packageinfo>[index]

Descriptions are provided for the casdaconf.cfg file entries that retrieve package information for deploying Additional Mgmt Agents.

platform

Valid values include the following CA IT Client Manager platforms:

AUTODEPLOY: WINDOWS_X86
AUTODEPLOY: LINUX_X86
AUTODEPLOY: HPUX_HP
AUTODEPLOY: AIX_AIX
AUTODEPLOY: SOLARIS_SPARC
AUTODEPLOY: SOLARIS x86
SD packageinfo

Identifies which package to run. When you deploy a package, the following entries are used to describe the package:

SDA_PKG_NAME

Defines the name of the package.

SDA_PKG_VERSION

Defines the version of the package.

SDA_PKG_PROCEDURE

Defines a procedure to run the installation package.

index

Determines which package is installed first and groups package and procedure information to identify what to install.

Default entries for agents that are supplied in the casdaconf.cfg file. Modify these entries so that they work with the version of packages that are used in your environment. If the index is correct for all entries, you can add and remove entries. The index must start at 1 and additional entries must be sequential; you cannot use 1 and then 3.

Example: Define Auto Deploy Profile to Deploy a CCA Agent and a Performance Agent Sequentially

This example shows you how to define the Auto Deploy profile to deploy the CCA Agent first, and the Performance Agent second on a Windows system: