1. Package Management Guide
  2. Understanding Deployment Parameters

Understanding Deployment Parameters

Before you deploy packages, you must identify the workstations, servers, groups, or locations that will receive the package. Identifying these ensures that, when you are ready to schedule packages using the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Deployment Director, the machines, groups, or locations that you want to receive the package will be available as package recipients.

A deployment group is a group of workstations that are classified by a criterion such as job function, team, or any other grouping that you specify. For example, you might have a software development group, a testing group, a production group, and so on. Oracle's JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Package Deployment Groups Revisions program (P9652A) enables you to define or revise groups that include several workstations.

A location is a group of workstations and servers that corresponds to a physical location. For example, you might have locations for Corporate and Branch, or for Building 5 and Building 7. Locations are also useful if you use multitier deployment or deploy across a WAN. In this case, you might define a location for each of your geographic locations. The JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Deployment Locations Application program (P9654A) enables you to define or revise machines and locations in your enterprise.

Both of these applications simplify the deployment process when you need to deploy a package to several users. Rather than requiring you to schedule deployment to each workstation or server, you can schedule deployment according to location or group.

When you enter a machine definition, you are really defining its usage in the configuration. For example, you can use a deployment server as a data server. When you enter machine definitions, consider these recommendations:

  • An HTML server can be defined only as an HTML server, not as a data server, enterprise server, and so on.

  • A deployment server should not be used as a workstation.

  • A deployment server can be used as a data server.

  • A deployment server should not be used as an enterprise server for tuning and performance reasons.