Date: December 07, 2015
To: CA Data Center Infrastructure Management Customers
From: The CA Technologies CA Data Center Infrastructure Management Product Team
Subject: End of Service Announcement for CA Data Center Infrastructure Management r4.6.01 through r4.9.00

CA Technologies is continually working to improve our software and services to best meet the needs of our customers. In accordance with the CA Support Policy and Terms (http://support.ca.com/us/product-content/recommended-reading/product-related-technical-information/ca-support-policy-and-terms.html), please consider this email your written notification that we are discontinuing support for CA Data Center Infrastructure Management r4.6.01, r4.7.00, r4.8.00, r4.9.00. This includes ecoMeter r4.2.00, r4.3.00, r4.4.00, r4.5.00 and CA Visual Infrastructure r 4.8.01, r4.9.00, r4.10.00, r4.11.00 and r4.11.01 beginning January 05, 2017. This will allow our Development organization to more effectively focus its resources and add value to the next release of CA Data Center Infrastructure Management.

At this time, we encourage you to plan for the migration to CA Data Center Infrastructure Management r4.11.00 as soon as possible, so you can take full advantage of the features and enhancements this release has to offer. For information on CA Data Center Infrastructure Management please visit the CA Data Center Infrastructure Management pages at CA Support Online (https://support.ca.com).

As CA Technologies would like to make your upgrade to CA Data Center Infrastructure Management r4.11.00 as straightforward as possible, we are offering the following:

• A no-charge software upgrade from the Version/Release scheduled for End of Service to the new Version/Release as long as you have an active maintenance contract for CA Data Center Infrastructure Management.

• Documentation to help you prepare for your upgrade to the new Version/Release can be viewed on the CA Data Center Infrastructure Management pages at CA Support Online (https://support.ca.com/).

• Consulting services from CA Services for any or all parts of the upgrade, including analysis of the current system, preparation for the upgrade, testing, and performing the upgrade itself. Please visit www.ca.com/services.

• Assistance from qualified local CA partners with any or all parts of the upgrade, including analysis of the current system, preparation for the upgrade, testing, and performing the upgrade itself. For more information and a list of partners in your area, please contact your local CA Channel Partner Group office, (http://www.ca.com/us/partners.aspx).

• CA Extended Support, a CA Technologies support offering, designed to extend support for CA Technologies software product versions or releases that have reached End of Service. CA Extended Support will be available for a maximum of a 12-month term if contracted within 6 months of the End of Service Date. Please visit our website, CA Support Online (https://support.ca.com/), for more information.

We encourage you to upgrade to the latest version of CA DCIM (CA DCIM 4.11) which contains the following marquee features:

CA ecoMeter 4.7.00

• Dynamic device name setting during device creation
• Enhanced BACnet and Modbus scan
• Streamlined and improved usability for device template creation
• Support Multi-State property for BACnet protocol
• Manage off line device creation
• Add flexible variable monitoring for RF Code protocol
• Add flexible variable monitoring for SNMP, IPMI, WMI
• Log user details on Set Operation from the View Builder
• Enhanced thrift API to control device polling status
• Enriched CA ecoMeter MIB
• Support CA eHealth 6.3.2.09

CA ecoMeter for Unified Infrastructure Management (UIM) 4.70

• Dynamic device name setting during device creation
• Enhanced BACnet and Modbus scan
• Streamlined and improved usability for device template creation
• Support Multi-State property for BACnet protocol
• Manage off line device creation
• Add flexible variable monitoring for RF Code protocol
• Add flexible variable monitoring for SNMP, IPMI, WMI
• Enhanced probe scalability and performance
• Support CA UIM 8.31

CA Visual Infrastructure 4.12.00

• Performance and scalability improvements
• Patch Panel Enclosure and Patch Panel Cassettes support
• New Queueing mechanism and visualization for data import and ecoMeter synchronization
• Simplified CA ecoMeter integration
• CA ecoMeter 4.7.00 integration
• CA ecoMeter for UIM 4.70 integration