Deployment tools overview

Sterling Order Management System Software provides a Configuration Deployment Tool that enables you to migrate configuration data. This tool ensures data integrity while reducing the system downtime to transfer data and minimizing the effort needed to ensure accuracy.

During incremental configurations of Sterling Order Management System Software, changes are typically developed in a test environment and then they are rolled out into production. Migrating configuration data can be fairly cumbersome and time consuming.

The Configuration Deployment Tool is designed to migrate data that is modified as part of a normal day-to-day operation. Note that the Configuration Deployment Tool can be used to deploy configuration data that is the result of an upgrade, but it should not be used to perform the data upgrade itself.

The Configuration Deployment Tool (CDT) can be accessed from the Sterling Order Management System Software Development and Deployment WorkBench (also known as the "WorkBench").

To run the UI for the Sterling Order Management System Software Configuration Deployment Tool on a UNIX server from a windows client, the UNIX server must have XWindows installed on it.

The CDT provides the following capabilities:

• Transfer complete and partial sets of configuration data or discrete logical portions.
• Transfer data to and from XML files or databases.
• Transform certain data-like IP addresses and port numbers that are different in two environments, depending upon network configuration.
• Generate a report of configuration differences by comparing the two systems.