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Promoting a Bundle
Promoting a Bundle
Promoting a Bundle

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Step 1

From the Bundles & Promotion Lifecycle Management navigation pane, select Bundles. The Bundles list displays.
 
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Step 2

Locate the Bundle that you want to promote and either:

Action menu

Action menu

The Promote Bundle pop-up dialog displays.
 

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Promote Bundle
Promote Bundle
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Step 3

If the selected Bundle record specifies a Default Promotion Target, the name of that Target displays in the Promotion Target field.

You can change, or select, the Promotion Target by selecting any Target from the drop-down list.

Step 4

The default login User and Password are provided from the selected Promotion Target record. If you want to override the defaults, click Override User/Password and type in the new information.

Credentials. From the Authentication Method dropdown menu, select Basic to override using a username and password or select
Access Token to override using a personal access token. 

If the promotion contains new or modified Universal Templates, click Allow Universal Template Changes; otherwise, the promotion will not succeed. See Diagnosing Promotion Failures for details.

Step 6

If you want to schedule the promotion of the bundle at a later time, click Schedule.

Step 7

Click Submit.
 
The Controller logs in to the target machine specified in the URI field of the Promotion Target record and copies the bundled records to the target Controller. Based on the specified Agent mapping, the target Agent replaces the source Agent where required.
 
If you scheduled the promotion to be run at a later time, a record of the promotion is created in the Promotion Schedules list.
 

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The promotion process creates audit records on the source and target machine. On the target machine, the Controller also creates a Promotion History record. For details, see Promotion History and the Restore Option.

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Step 1

From the Bundles & Promotion navigation pane, select Bundles. The Bundles list displays.
 
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Step 2

Locate the Bundle that you want to promote and either:

Action menu

Action menu

The Promote Bundle pop-up dialog displays.
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Step 3

The default login ID and password are provided from the Promotion Target record, if specified. If you want to override the default, click Override User/Password and type in the new information.

Step 4

If the promotion contains new or modified Universal Templates, click Allow Universal Template Changes; otherwise, the promotion will not succeed. See Diagnosing Promotion Failures for details.

Step 5

Click Schedule. Additional fields display on the Promote Bundle pop-up dialog that let you create a promotion schedule.
 
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Step 6

Select a Date and Time when you want the bundle to be promoted.

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Create Snapshot
Create Snapshot
Step 7

If you want to schedule the promotion using the current Bundle records, select Create Snapshot. When you submit the schedule, the current Bundle records are collected immediately and promoted at the scheduled time. Any changes to Bundle records between the time that the promotion was scheduled and the time that the promotion was performed are not promoted.
 
If you want to schedule the promotion using the Bundle records collected dynamically at the time of the scheduled promotion, do not select Create Snapshot.

Step 8

If you want to send a System Notification on the success and/or failure of the promotion, select one of the following from the System Notification drop-down list:

  • Operation Failure (default)
  • Operation Success/Failure
  • Operation Success

If you do not want to send a System Notification, select – None --.
 

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Promotions without a specified Schedule will run immediately. Real-time notifications will be displayed in the Console, rather than through System Notifications.

Step 9

Click Submit. A record of the promotion schedule is listed in the Promotion Schedules list.
 
After a scheduled promotion has completed, it will remain on the list (where it can be rescheduled to run again) for the number of days specified by the Promotion Schedule Retention Period In Days Universal Controller system property.

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