Running 'caf setserveraddress localhost' on DM or SS fails

Products

• CA Client Automation - IT Client Manager
• CA Client Automation

Issue/Introduction

Consider a situation where the Client Automation's Agent was installed using Infrastructure deployment on a Windows 2012 server. Later, this machine is upgraded to a Scalability Server or a Domain Manager. 

However, since the agent was reporting to another Domain Manager, 'caf setserveraddress' returns the Domain Manager name instead of ‘localhost’. 

Running 'caf setserveraddress localhost' to change it, returns the following error:

 

CA DSM r12 Common Application Framework <version details>

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Caf currently registers with the scalability server at MACHINENAME

You cannot change the server of an agent running on a scalability server machine.

Environment

Client Automation - All Versions.

Resolution

- Delete the machine instance from the DSM Explorer on the original Domain Manager

- Run the following commands on the machine:

ccnfcmda -cmd setparametervalue -ps itrm/agent/solutions/generic -pn serveraddress -v localhost -manager

caf register all

- Run 'caf setserveraddress' to validate if the server address has been updated with 'localhost'