Review vCloud Requirements

Review the following requirements before you start configuring the vCloud Director management components of CA Virtual Assurance:

You are familiar with TCP/IP, SNMP, web services, and Windows Server operating systems.
You have a basic understanding of CA Virtual Assurance, CA SystemEDGE, VMware vSphere, and VMware vCloud.
You can access a CA Virtual Assurance manager installation that includes the VMware Platform Management Module (PMM), vCloud Application Insight Module (AIM), and Monitoring Agent (CA SystemEDGE).
You can access the CA Virtual Assurance user interface.
You have valid credentials available (user name and password) to access the vCloud Director server that you want to manage.
You have found out which protocol (HTTP or HTTPS) and port to use for accessing the vCloud Director through web services. Default: HTTPS, Port 443
You have verified that the vSphere environment and the vCloud Director run properly.
If the VMware PMM and vCloud AIM are installed on different systems, you have verified that the SNMP settings on these systems are consistent. Read and write community strings and SNMP port number must be identical.
You have verified that the CA Virtual Assurance manager has discovered any remote vCloud AIM Servers that you want to use.

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