Lifecycle Management Components

Lifecycle Management consists of these components:

LCM Administrator Role —Oracle's Hyperion® Shared Services user role that performs Lifecycle Management tasks. The LCM Administrator can use Lifecycle Management to view Shared Services artifacts in the Foundation application group or migrate an application, a repository, or individual artifacts across product environments and operating systems. Any user provisioned with this role has the ability to extract and load artifacts into any EPM System product that is registered with the same Shared Services instance.

Note:

Some EPM System products require that Lifecycle Management users be provisioned additional product roles (in addition to the LCM Administrator role) to perform Lifecycle Management tasks. For additional roles, see the appendixes at the end of this guide.

Migration Definition File—Contains all information about a migration (source, destination, artifacts for migrations, export and import options). Users can create a migration definition automatically using the Migration Wizard or manually using the sample files provided. Migration definition files can be used to run migrations either in Shared Services Console or in Lifecycle Management Utility.
Shared Services Console—Shared Services user interface that enables users to perform administrative tasks such as provisioning and lifecycle management.
Migration Wizard—A part of Shared Services Console that helps users create, execute, and save a migration definition.
Lifecycle Management Utility—A command-line utility that provides an alternatative to migrate artifacts from source to destination. Lifecycle Management Utility can be used with a third-party scheduling service such as Windows Task Scheduler or Oracle Enterprise Manager.
Migration Properties File—Contains the global parameters for migrations; for example, file system and log file locations, grouping size for batch migrations, enabling or disabling estimate reports, and so on.
Migration Status Report—Provides user info, source and destination information, a progress indicator for “In Progress” migrations, migration date, time, and duration, and migration status (In Progress, Completed, or Failed). Migration detail is provided for migrations showing a status of Failed.
Lifecycle Management Log Files—Capture all Lifecycle Management migration activity.
Lifecycle Management Application Programming Interface (API)—Enables users to execute the Lifecycle Management migration definition file.