Managing routes

In BMC Release Process Management, during the release process, use routes to determine the order in which the selected sets of environments are accessed by the particular application. Use environment types to determine the environment access policies for routes. Routes along with plans provide enforcement and capability for the processed runs to be manually or automatically promoted to the next plan stages. For more information, see Managing-plan-runs.

You can assign the environments to a particular route. The route gate is the association of an environment and a route.

This topic provides the following information to help you manage routes:

• • • To create a route
    • To edit a route
    • To add a route to a plan

To create a route

1. Open the Applications tab.
2. Click Create Application to create a new application, or click the name of the existing application for which you want to create a route.

3. Open the Routes tab.

   Warning

   Note

   The default route is created automatically. It contains environments that are associated with the application. You can view the default route by clicking either Edit or the default route name.

4. To create a new route, click Create Route.
5. Enter the route name and description, and then click Create.

6. From the Available Environments table, select the environments for which you want to assign to the route, and then click Add Selected.

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   Notes

   • Based on the environment type, environments are automatically assigned to the appropriate route via the route gates. For more information, see Managing-environment-types. You can rearrange the route gates by dragging the environmnents and dropping them in the desired order.
   • If in the Available Environments table there are no environments to select, return to the application details page under Applications > Apps, and click the add/remove environments link to add the environments to your application.

To edit a route

1. To edit a route, click the Edit Route button.
   You can rearrange the route gates by dragging the environmnent and dropping them in the desired order.
2. To unassign the environment from the route gate, click the x (Remove route gate) sign, and then click OK. 
   You can add the unassigned environments to the route gates once again by selecting them in the Available Environments table, and clicking Add Selected.

To add a route to a plan

1. Go to the Plans tab, and then click the plan to which you want to assign a route.
2. Click the Routes tab, and then, on the right side, click Assign App Route.
   
3. In the App list, select the appropriate application.

4. In the Route list, select a route, and then click Add.
   The Routes tab opens with the plan stages mapped to the application route environments.

   Warning

   Note

   Route gate constraints validate the compliance of the request environments to the plan stage route gates. Route gates are mapped to the plan stages according to the environment types of the route gate environments. You can change the default (automatic) route gate assignment to plan stages. For more information about route gates, see Managing-routes.