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Spectrum Infrastructure Manager Integration Overview

As a system administrator, you use Spectrum Infrastructure Manager to manage and monitor your physical IT infrastructure, isolating faults to root cause. You want to extend these capabilities into virtual environments.

CA Virtual Assurance uses Application Insight Modules (AIMs) to manage and monitor physical and virtual system environments.

Note: The supported environments vary according to the versions of CA Virtual Assurance and Spectrum Infrastructure Manager. For more information, see the Spectrum Infrastructure Manager documentation.

The following diagram provides an overview of how system administrators set up CA Virtual Assurance to enable Spectrum Infrastructure Manager to model and monitor CA Virtual Assurance managed environments:

1. Install CA Virtual Assurance.

   Note: For more information, see the CA Virtual Assurance Installation Guide.

2. Configure SNMP in CA Virtual Assurance.

   Verify that the CA Virtual Assurance SNMP configuration is consistent with the Spectrum Infrastructure Manager port settings. If CA Virtual Assurance and Spectrum Infrastructure Manager are installed on different networks, verify that appropriate firewall ports are open.

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

3. Deploy the AIMs for your environments from CA Virtual Assurance.

   Use the appropriate AIMs and agent deployment method for your infrastructure and environment.

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

4. (Optional) Discover the environments with CA Virtual Assurance.

   Discover the components of the environment, to enable server management in CA Virtual Assurance.

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

5. Discover the SystemEDGE agent / AIM host with Spectrum Infrastructure Manager.

   The AIMs expose the infrastructures that they support to Spectrum Infrastructure Manager.

   Note: For more information, see the Spectrum Infrastructure Manager documentation.

Spectrum Infrastructure Manager displays the discovered infrastructure in its OneClick navigation panels, provides infrastructure modeling, and availability reporting for the components of your environment.

Manage components of your environments and implement policy-based management using CA Virtual Assurance.

The following diagram represents an overview of the integrated infrastructure: