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Open System Hosts

A CA SRM Open Systems host is a machine on which you install and run CA SRM Application Server software. This machine gathers and manages network storage data, which you access using the Windows Client. You can install and run the CA SRM Application Server and the Windows Client on the same or separate machines.

The Windows Client communicates with the Open Systems Application Server through Remote Procedure Call (RPC). RPC is a protocol that runs on top of TCP/IP.

The CA SRM agent identifies and collects data from each Open Systems host. For Network Offline agents, CA SRM specifies a path to a shared directory as one of the agent properties. You can use the Host List to define a host, and to maintain data collection and connections for your hosts.

Note: The Application Server installation program creates a shared directory named BSRM on the CA SRM directory of the Application Server computer. Only the user who installed the Application Server software has access rights to the BSRM directory. If the BSRM directory access rights differ from the access rights you have when you log on to the Windows Client computer, then you must modify your access rights to the BSRM directory on the Application Server.