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Review Requirements

Review the following requirements before configuring the management components of CA Virtual Assurance:

• You are familiar with TCP/IP, SNMP, web services, and Windows Server operating systems.
• You are familiar with CA Virtual Assurance and SystemEDGE.
• You can access a CA Virtual Assurance manager installation that includes:
  • Platform Management Module (PMM)
  • Application Insight Module (AIM)
  • Monitoring Agent (SystemEDGE)
• You can access the CA Virtual Assurance user interface.
• You have valid credentials (user name and password) to access the servers in the environment that you want to manage.
• You know which protocol (HTTP or HTTPS) and port to use to access the server in your environment through web services. Default: HTTPS, Port: 443.
• You verified that the servers in your environment are running properly.
• If the PMM and AIM are installed on different systems, verify that the SNMP settings on the PMM and AIM systems are consistent. Read and write community strings and SNMP port number must be identical.
• You verified that the CA Virtual Assurance manager discovered remote AIM Servers that you want to use.