Adding a Deployment Schedule for a Group of CAL Packages

You can schedule a CAL package deployment using effective dates, building the packages and schedules so that file transfer occurs in the background, and clients can install simultaneously.

Oracle recommends that you schedule the CAL Client, the Service Host Download, and the Service Host separately on different dates or times. Scheduling these packages individually lets the site benefit from transferring the files silently in the background. Service Host only installs the required software components, minimizing the installation time needed.

1. Select the Enterprise, click Setup, and then click CAL Packages.
2. Expand the Simphony or Custom subgroups, and then highlight a node without a corresponding CAL package.
   If you are using Simphony release 19.1.2, you need to deploy the following packages in the order listed:

   1. CAL Client

   2. Service Host Download

   3. Service Host

3. Click the Deployment Schedules tab.
4. Click Add Deployment.
5. From the Choose CAL Package For Deployment drop-down list, select the package to deploy.

   The list of available CAL packages in the dialog changes depending on the node highlighted within the tree. For example, if you highlight the Simphony node, the list of packages contains all Simphony CAL packages. If you select the Service Host node, the list contains only the Service Host packages.

6. From the Deployment Type drop-down list, select the type of deployment:

   • 1 - Property/Enterprise

   • 2 - Specific Service Host

     Simphony release 19.1.2 does not require Service Host Prerequisites. If a Service Host Prerequisites deployment is shown for an earlier release, remove the Service Host Prerequisites from the deployment schedule. Set the Service Host Download for 19.1.2 instead.

     The Service Host Download is required in Simphony 19.1.2. When scheduled independently of the CAL client package, the Service Host Download occurs silently in the background to avoid end user interruption. If you schedule the CAL client package and the Service Host Download package to run at the same time, the Service Host Download does not run in the background. You can schedule the Service Host Download file transfer to begin in the early morning hours during non-peak business times (for example, 2:00 a.m.).

7. Click the ellipsis point (...) button.
8. From the Select Properties or Select Service Host dialog (depending on your selection in Step 6), select one or more workstations or service hosts where the package downloads, and then click OK.

   • Filter lengthy lists by property number or name, or by workstation number or name.

   • If you selected 1 - Property/Enterprise in Step 6, select Show already configured properties to prevent yourself from configuring duplicate deployment schedule records.

   • If you selected 2 - Specific Service Host in Step 6, press and hold the Ctrl key while performing a left mouse click to select multiple service hosts. You can click the Select All or Clear All links to affect all service hosts in the list.

   • You can select multiple service hosts or specific workstations.

9. In the Action To Take field, select one of the following options:

   • To allow the deployment to proceed, select 0 - Install.

   • To prevent a package from being downloaded, select 1 - Skip.

10. (Optional) In the Effective From field, select the start date when the CAL packages automatically begin installing, and select the start time (in 24-hour format).

    You can use this field to schedule Simphony upgrades.

    Note:

    The date and time selected in Effective From and Effective To fields are determined by the application server’s time zone, not by the property or workstation time zone.
11. (Optional) In the Effective To field, select the date when the CAL packages automatically stop installing, and select the stop time (in 24-hour format).

    To keep the installations perpetual, do not set an Effective To time.

12. Click Save.