Deployment Management
Click Deployment tab on the Control Center Director Web Console navigation menu to seamlessly upgrade Connect:Direct servers in your deployment to a later version.
Before you begin
- Download the latest supported Connect:Direct fix pack on your local computer.
- Ensure that you have configured your Control Center Director instance to define where the Connect:Direct packages will be made available for auto-discovery.
- Control Center Director Administrator must manually secure and assign privliges to the packages directory before executing any upgrade and/or applies maintenance operations to Connect:Direct nodes.
- Auto sense feature enables Control Center Director to detect and process the packages after they are added into/removed from the designated directory. It can take up to 15 minutes for the packages to show up under the Deployment view.
- In some cases after a failed upgrade, the fastest solution is to roll back to a previous release you were using. For more information see, Emergency Restore
Key Concepts: Deployment
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When you work with Deployment, there are two main approaches that can be used to manage the upgrade process in your deployment.
Click:
- Packages to list and manage all Connect:Direct packages auto-discovered by your Control Center Director instance
- Deployments to create a job (schedule upgrade) and list a job status (upgrade state)
- Your user role also determines what is displayed in Deployments view. For example, if you are a restricted user, clicking Create Job>Select Server Groups/Servers displays only servers/groups assigned to the user.
- To view the upgrade status of a server, go to Deployments > All Jobs tab.
- The Type field displays Completed if all the servers and/or server group are processed successfully
- The Status field displays Partial if some servers in a server group have upgraded successfully while some did not
After a package is displayed in the Packages view, it can be scheduled for an upgrade throughout in your current deployment.
Initial Administrator Work flow - Deployment
The following steps shows the initial work flow for a Control Center Director Web Console Administrator:
- View Packages
- Click Packages>All Package to list all Connect:Direct packages auto-discovered by your Control Center Director instance.
- Select an entry to view package details.
- Manage Packages
- Click Packages>All Package
- Select an entry and click Deploy to schedule an upgrade (job).
- Select an entry and click Export to export and view package details in a .csv format. You can also export the entire page listing in a .csv format.
- Schedule a maintenance job (Upgrade) or an Emergency Restore job.
- Click Jobs>Deploy Job to schedule an upgrade (job).
- Select Maintenance Job from the Job Type drop-down menu to schedule an Upgrade and
enter the rest of the form details as required.To schedule an Emergency Restore procedure that restores the Connect:Direct product and system files to its state as it was before upgrade, select Emergency Restore Job from the Job Type drop-down menu.Note: For an Emergency Restore Job, Servers and Server Groups display servers and server groups with valid restore points.
- Select Start Now/Schedule for Later/Hold for Later to schedule the job.
- Click Schedule.
Scheduled job is now listed under the All Jobs view.
- View and manage Jobs regardless of their state
- Click Jobs>All Jobs to view all jobs in your environment.
- Select an entry to view job details.
- Select an entry and click Export to export and view job details in a .csv format.
- Select an entry and click Delete to remove a held state job if it is no longer required.
- Select an entry and click Edit to edit job.Note: A job that is In Progress state can be stopped but not edited.
- View and Manage Jobs by their current or recent state.
- Click Jobs to view all jobs in your environment by state that is, In Progress, Held, Scheduled, and Completed.