CA Client Automation - 14.0

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How Neighbor Aware Software Distribution Works

The Neighbor Aware Software Distribution works as follows depending on the policies that are configured for the Scalability Server and the agents.
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The Neighbor Aware Software Distribution works as follows depending on the policies that are configured for the Scalability Server and the agents.
  1. The administrator enables the NASD feature at Scalability Server level. The administrator also identifies the agents that would act as Collaborating Agents and applies agent-related configuration policy.
  2. When a job is deployed to the targets, the collaborating agents connect to the scalability server first. Only the configured number of agents connect to the Scalability Server and download the package and the remaining can download the package from the Scalability Server or the above collaborative agents. Whichever Collaborating Agents first connect to the Scalability Server download the software package.
  3. The Collaborating Agents, which download the package from the Scalability Server, execute and retain the package for the Neighbor Aware Agents to download.
  4. The Neighbor Aware Agents connect to the Collaborating Agents and download the package. After executing the package, they delete the package.
  5. Normal agents connect to the Scalability Server to download the software package. They do not participate in collaborative distribution and delete the package after execution.