This document provides an overview and agenda for a hands-on lab session on the new admin console for CA Unified Infrastructure Management (CA UIM). The session will demonstrate key highlights of the new admin console like improved scalability, usability, and performance. Hands-on exercises will include probe deployment, lifecycle management, and using probe callbacks. The goal is to help users streamline infrastructure configuration and management tasks.

1. World®
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Hands-On Lab: Get to Know the New
Admin Console in CA Unified
Infrastructure Management (CA UIM)
Robert Vacante - Sr. Principal Product Manager - CA Technologies
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DEVOPS – AGILE OPERATIONS

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Abstract
A new admin console for CA Unified Infrastructure Management (CA UIM) is designed to
streamline navigation, deployment and management for small- and large-scale environments
alike. Join us in this session to get hands-on experience with the new console.
Robert
Vacante
CA Technologies
Sr. Principal Product
Manager

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Agenda
NEW ADMIN CONSOLE FOR CA UNIFIED INFRASTRUCTURE MGMT. OVERVIEW
CA UNIFIED INFRASTRUCTURE MGMT. PRODUCT ADMINISTRATION GOING FORWARD
ADMIN CONSOLE KEY HIGHLIGHTS
NOTABLE IMPROVEMENTS
EXERCISES
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New Admin Console for CA Unified Infrastructure Mgmt
Intuitive, Scalable Console for Managing Your Infrastructure
PAIN
BENEFITS
KEY FEATURES
• Limited performance and scalability in existing console
• Users need to configure CA Unified Infrastructure Management from
Linux machines
• Monitoring Infrastructure configuration needs to be simple, easy to
use and equally easy to learn
• Improved staff productivity
• Faster execution of everyday workflows
• Faster “time to triage” of your monitoring infrastructure
• Support highly scalable environments seamlessly
• Allows customer to efficiently deploy probes to large numbers of robots
• Simple and intuitive UI to speed your administrative tasks.
• Easy to learn and use to drive staff productivity
• Intuitive and scalable infrastructure configuration for large scale
deployments and DevOps environments
• Multi-tenant

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Admin Console Customer Value Delivered
§ Improved visualization through completely new HTML5
GUI developed with easy, scale and robustness in mind
§ Navigation, deployment and archive management
workflow specifically designed to scale to our largest
customer environments
§ Ability to manage multiple archives from
single application
– From Infrastructure Manger UI you could only see archive of
the hub you were logged into
– Legacy Admin Console could only view the primary hub
where Admin Console was installed
§ Support multi-tenancy using account contacts
§ New hub and robot info views that aggregate useful data
for quicker customer time-to-value
Supported on CA Unified Infrastructure Management 8.47 and Later

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CA Unified Infrastructure Management
Product Administration Going Forward
Admin Console 2 continues to evolve
Complete Rewrite
Infrastructure Manager:
thick client, Windows only
Admin Console 8.47,
HTML5, web-based
Fast, streamlined configuration
Functionality migrated to
provide needed
administration
capabilities
Infrastructure Manager UI will continue to be available
until such time that Admin Console has all
functionality needed for administration
Legacy Admin Console,
HTML, web-based

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Admin Console
Key Highlights
§ Probe and package deployment
– Deploy large numbers of packages to your
environment with ease
– Web Archive and Local Archive available in
same view
– Can administer multiple archives in
same domain
§ Probe life cycle management
– Complete probe lifecycle support
§ Activate, deactivate, restart
– Access configuration UIs
– Edit configuration via raw configure
– Can execute probe callbacks
– One click to download configuration file
§ Probe callback GUI
– Modern GUI to enable execution of
callbacks for CA Unified Infrastructure
Management probes
– Similar to Infrastructure Manager UI, a user
can override timeout period
– Ability to export to CSV
– Unlike Infrastructure Manager UI and
legacy Admin Console, a user can copy /
paste values returned from callback
– Filtering allows user to easily find the
command they are seeking

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Everything Is Meant to Be Easy
Donut Charts
• Quick view of infrastructure status
• Clickable navigation for further investigation
Live feedback
• Quick notification of important events
• Errors and Success both shown
Export to CSV
• All tables can have their data
exported to CSV
• Allows for easier sharing of
information with CA Support
Icons to differentiate UIM Systems
• Quickly distinguish important systems
• Grey star to denote the Hub where Data Engine is running
• Blue circle to denote the Robot hosting the Hub probe

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Notable Improvements
§ Scalability
– Tested to 500+ hubs in test lab
– One Admin Console 2 beta customer is running 2700+ hubs
§ Usability
– Archive management
– Pagination when scrolling through large result set
§ Performance
– Admin Console 2 resides in WASP and not Service Host; minimizes CA UIM footprint
§ High availability
– User can deploy many instances of Admin Console 2 throughout domain

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Hands On Exercise

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Exercises
§ Probe deployment
– Navigate to the Archive tab
– Select CDM and cm_data_import
– Actions -> Deploy
– Observe that status is updated in real time
§ Probe lifecycle management
– Navigate to a robot
– Select the Probes tab
– Click on the actions menu for an individual probe
– Stop, start and restart this probe
– Select the controller probe and notice stop is greyed out
– Robots can only be restarted from robots table view; this is intended to prevent accidental restarts

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Exercises
§ Probe callback
– Select the actions menu for the hub probe
– Click on “View Probe Utility in a New Window”
– Select the “get_info” callback
– What information is displayed here?
– Click on the export button to save results to an
Excel file
§ Log file viewing
– Open the discovery agent log on the primary CA Unified Infrastructure Management server
– Search for “main”
– How many instances of this occur?

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