CA TM Roles and Responsibilities

The CA TM Server performs multiple administrative duties and helps you to manage all CA TM client machines from a centralized location. Specifically, the CA TM Server provides the following management services:

• Organization of CA TM Client Machines

  Organizes managed machines in a tree to group together machines with similar policies. This helps reduce the effort needed to manage large numbers of CA TM Clients

• Subnet Management

  Initiates the discovery of client machines running the CA TM Agent. The discovery process finds and returns the client machines on a particular subet that are running the CA TM Agent.

• Policy Management

  Manages the policies that control the CA TM Agent's behavior, including RealTime Protection, scheduled scans, signature and program updates, and other policies.

• Reporting

  Uses alert messages that have been forwarded from the client machines running the CM TM Agent to create various reports and populate the Dasbhoard's "Top 10" lists.

• Licensing

  Distributes license information to CA TM client machines automatically. The license is installed during the installation of the CA TM Server and is based on managed node count and expiration date.