Usage of “Software Library access” or “setcreds for SD Agent.

Products

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

Issue/Introduction

In order to specify what user is running and downloading a SD package fro the SS, there are 2 ways to do this:

• Using policy “Software Library access”.
• Using command “caf setcreds”.

What is the difference between them?

Environment

Client Automation 14.5 and above

Resolution

When the download method is defined to NOS for a particular machine, the SD Agent reads the credentials from the following policies:

Software Library access: UserID

Software Library access: Password

NOTE: Policy found under: Default Computer Policy > DSM > Software Delivery > Shared

And use them to connect to SDLIBRARY$ share to download/copy the Software Package to the machine.

On the other hand, the “setcreds” option (the full command is: caf setcreds sdagent user user1 password abc1234) launches the SD Agent plugin locally in the machine with the defined user (default user is LOCAL SYSTEM). If this user have access to the share SDLIBRARY$, he will be able to access the packages in the share too.

The usage of each will depend on what is better for the environment and what is easier to implement.