Creating an environment

1. Click the Topology tab.
2. From the left menu, select Environments.
3. On the right after the list of existing environments, click New Environment.
4. Enter a label for the new environment.
    The label should clearly represent the organizational stage or particular part of the stage. For example, if a QA stage has both a Functional Test and a System Test and each testing group uses its own servers on their own schedules, you should create separate environments for each test.
5. For Protected, select Yes or No.
   If Yes is selected, the BMC Varalogix Q Deployment Manager automatically locks an instance after deploying it into the environment, so that the deployed instance is protected against a clean up by schedules.
6. If signoff is required for deployments to this environment, select the appropriate notification template in the Sign Off menu.

7. Select an appropriate role(s) for the environment. For more information about this procedure, see Enabling-role-based-access-permissions-for-an-environment.

   Notes

   • Only users with matching role have access to this environment.
   • For more information about adding new role and viewing the permissions for the existing role, see Managing roles and access restrictions topic.

8. (Optional) Select processes for pre- and post-processing states (Pre-Deploy, On Pass, On Fail).
   The environment processes do not directly interact with channels but can perform activities that interact with all channels in the environment. You can use these processes to request synchronization of configuration records of each channel in the environment to ensure that they are valid prior to a deployment.

   Tip

   Use post-processes to:

   • To notify appropriate people of the state of the deployment
   • To synchronize the channel configuration records so that any configuration changes are not detected as configuration drifts by a configuration check schedule
9. Click Create.
10. Take the appropriate action:
    • If you are creating the environment without a signoff notification, use the displayed form to add channels to the environment.

    • If you are creating the environment with a signoff notification, assign responders from the Responders subtab, as described in Configuring signoffs for deployment, or the notification fails.
      
      

      Note

      User that is selected as a Responder should have a valid email address set on the Personal Settings page. Otherwise the deployment that require their signoff will finish with the 'Canceled' state.

Where to go from here

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Managing-pools-in-the-environment

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