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Review the Prerequisites and Considerations

Verify the following prerequisites before installing and configuring the CA Spectrum - CA Nimsoft Integration:

• Licensed installations of CA Spectrum 9.3 and CA Nimsoft Management System (version 6.2 or later) are required.

  Note: If you plan to install CA Spectrum as a user other than Administrator, disable User Account Control (UAC) on Windows. For more information, see the CA Spectrum Installation Guide.

• Verify that the system where you want to install CA Spectrum has a static IP address.
• Standard CA Spectrum supported platforms and hardware are required.

Verify the following considerations:

• The current integration does not attempt to upgrade previous (that is field-developed) integrations. We plan to support upgrades to future versions of this integration.
• This integration requires CA Spectrum to use the SNMP Trap port (162) for communication from CA Nimsoft. For more information, see http://docs.nimsoft.com/prodhelp/en_US/Library/index.htm?toc.htm?ServerDocsIndex.html
• This integration connects to only a single CA Nimsoft instance.
• This integration depends on trap reception because typical SNMPv1 traps are unconfirmed. Traps can be dropped in transit and not recognized.
• For the events and alarms to be raised on the correct CA Spectrum model, use IP address instead of host name to model the entity on CA Nimsoft. If a host name is used for entities that are modeled in CA Nimsoft, CA Spectrum alarms are raised on the EventModel of robot hosting the probe.