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Identifying Configurations to Deliver Upgrade Components

A Siebel Anywhere configuration is a definition of the setup used by a particular set of Siebel Anywhere subscribers, such as Siebel Call Center clients or Siebel Sales clients. A configuration associates a particular set of Siebel Anywhere subscribers with the specific set of upgrade components that those subscribers must have managed and maintained. Each Siebel subscriber belongs to an individual Siebel Anywhere configuration that includes a specific set of components.

This topic is part of Determining Your Upgrade Requirements.

As part of the process of planning your upgrade, you must make sure that your Siebel Business Applications implementation contains configurations that are related to the components you want to upgrade. You must also make sure that those configurations can be used to distribute the upgrade to the appropriate subscribers, whether those subscribers represent servers or clients.

The following procedures provide instructions for listing existing configurations and for inspecting the components and users to which these configurations are related. For more information about Siebel Anywhere configurations, see Siebel Anywhere Terminology.

Displaying Siebel Anywhere Configurations and Their Components

The following procedure describes how to display the available Siebel Anywhere configurations and their related components.

To display available Siebel Anywhere configurations and their related components

  1. Navigate to the Administration - Siebel Anywhere screen, then the Upgrade Configurations view.
  2. In the Upgrade Configurations list, select a configuration that you want to inspect, and then click the Upgrade Components view tab.

    The Upgrade Components list displays the components that are currently associated with the selected configuration. Table 6 describes some of the fields in this list.

Table 6. Selected Fields in the Upgrade Components List
Field Name
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Name

The name of the component. Only single-byte, alphanumeric characters, blank space, underscore, and dash are allowed. Component names cannot include special characters like periods or characters such as slash, asterisk, pipe, question mark, colon, quotes, or angle brackets.

Min Version

The minimum version required for the component on the client system.

If the client uses a version of the component that is less than the minimum, then the client must upgrade or the application runs in read-only mode.

Every component receives automatic version checking.

Max Version

The maximum version allowed for the component on the client system.

If clients use a version of the component that is between the minimum and maximum, then they can still use the application in read and write mode without installing an upgrade kit, even if the upgrade kit is otherwise required.

Clients can access the Siebel Business Applications if their local version is higher than the maximum version for the component.

Every component receives automatic version checking.

Min Version Distributed

The version of the component that has been distributed for this configuration. This value is set automatically when upgrade kits for this component are distributed for this configuration.

Max Version Distributed

The version of the component that has been distributed for this configuration. This value is set automatically when upgrade kits for this component are distributed for this configuration.

The following procedure provides instructions for listing the subscribers who are dynamically assigned to a selected configuration. The procedure does not list subscribers who are assigned to a particular configuration by means of a CFG file setting.

Displaying Employees Associated with a Siebel Anywhere Configuration

The following procedure describes how to display the employee users who are associated with a Siebel Anywhere configuration.

To list employees who are dynamically associated with a configuration

  1. Navigate to the Administration - Siebel Anywhere screen, then Upgrade Configurations, then the Employees view.
  2. In the Upgrade Configurations list, select the configuration for which you want to view the dynamically assigned employees.

    The Employees list displays the employees who are dynamically assigned to the selected configuration. Employees who are assigned to the configuration through their CFG file values are not listed.

If you find that existing configurations do not meet your current upgrade needs, then see Modifying and Creating Siebel Anywhere Configurations for information about how to modify existing configurations or create new configurations.

    
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