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Remote Deployment and Policy Configuration Overview

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 packages that contain customized installation parameters and simultaneously deploy these templates to numerous managed systems.

In addition CA Virtual Assurance provides a comprehensive solution for the ongoing configuration of the SystemEDGE agents running on all managed systems. Policy Configuration allows a library of Policies to be created. These policies are applied to one or more systems running SystemEDGE and SRM AIM. When an agent managed by Policy Configuration is installed, it automatically requests a policy. As a result, the agent runs a controlled and consistent set of Policies. Each agent can then be updated individually, based on the Policy the agent is running, or the service the agent is a member of.

Remote Deployment and Policy Configuration share the Domain Server and Distribution Server technology. This technology provides a solution that is both scalable and able to be distributed across multiple data centers.

The diagram illustrates the basic architecture of the Remote Deployment and Policy Configuration components.

Deployment and Policy Configuration Architecture