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Agent Deployment

CA Virtual Assurance provides a comprehensive solution for remotely deploying the SystemEDGE agent to all managed systems. You can create deployment templates that are based on the provided packages that contain customized installation parameters and simultaneously deploy these templates to numerous managed systems. This automated deployment solution provides one location from which to deploy and configure the agents throughout your enterprise.

CA Virtual Assurance provides the following base deployment packages:

• SystemEDGE Agent Core
• SystemEDGE Advanced Encryption
• CA Citrix XenServer AIM
• SystemEDGE Remote Monitoring AIM
• SystemEDGE Service Response Monitor AIM
• CA Systems Performance LiteAgent
• CA IBM LPAR AIM
• CA IBM High Availability Cluster Multiprocessing AIM
• CA KVM AIM (not applicable to CA Server Automation)
• CA Cisco UCS AIM
• CA Microsoft Hyper-V AIM
• CA Microsoft Cluster Service Support AIM
• CA Solaris Zones AIM
• CA VMware vCenter Server AIM
• CA VMware vCloud AIM
• CA Exchange Server and Active Directory AIM

CA Virtual Assurance supports the following SystemEDGE deployment scenarios:

• You can deploy a SystemEDGE Release 5.7.1 agent to systems with no pre-existing SystemEDGE agent.
• You can deploy a SystemEDGE Release 5.7.1 agent to systems with a pre-existing SystemEDGE 4.3 agent. The deployment automatically upgrades the existing agent to Release 5.7.1.
• You can make configuration changes to individual systems or through a configuration template. The latter option allows you to apply changes to an existing managed SystemEDGE agent or a group of managed SystemEDGE agents.

Note: For more information about how deployment works, see the CA Virtual Assurance Online Help and the Administration Guide.

CA Virtual Assurance does not support the following SystemEDGE deployment scenarios:

• You cannot deploy a version of the agent earlier than SystemEDGE 5.0.0.
• You cannot deploy the SystemEDGE agent on the CA Virtual Assurance manager system. The agent is automatically installed through the CA Virtual Assurance manager installation.

Note: For more information about deployment support, see the CA Virtual Assurance Administration Guide.