Building and deploying packages

The BMC_DEPLOYMENT_PACKAGES folder is automatically created on the target server when a package deployment or rollback is triggered by the AR System Deployment Management console. The folder is created in installationDirectory\BMC Software\ARSystem\Arserver\Db\BMC_DEPLOYMENT_PACKAGES.

This folder is a temporary working directory. You can safely delete this folder or the contents of this folder after successful package deployment or rollback. Do not delete this folder or the contents of this folder when the package deployment or rollback is in progress.

Related topics

Defining-and-deploying-data-and-object-packages

Accessing-the-AR-System-Deployment-Management-console

The following table describes the links to the operations performed on a package:

Links

Description

Build

Validates and incorporates the package contents. If the build process is successful, the status of the package is updated to Ready to Deploy. You cannot modify the package or the package contents after the build is successful.

To build the package, select the package from the table and click Build.

Before you build the package, ensure that you define the package by adding rules to the package. For more information to define the package, see Defining-a-package.

Deploy

Extracts the contents of the package and imports the contents to AR System. If the package is deployed successfully, the status of the package is updated to Deployed.

To deploy a package, from the table, select the package with the status Ready to Deploy and click Deploy.

If the deployment of a package that has multiple content types is partially successful, that is, some of the content types are successfully deployed and some are failed, the state of the overall package on the Deployment Management Console is displayed as Deployed with Errors.

A state is the current condition or situation of a deployment package.

Rollback

Restores the objects in a package to the pre-deployment state if any issues are found during validation of the package after the package is deployed successfully or if an error occurs while deploying the package.

To roll back a package, select the deployed package from the table and click Rollback. The status of the package is updated to Rollback.

Consider the following points before performing a rollback:

  • Make sure that the Object Modification Log is enabled.
    For more information, see Enabling-and-using-version-control-labels.
  • You cannot perform a rollback for data.
  • In a server group environment, you can perform a rollback from any server in the server group.

After a rollback, you may find some entries in the object modification logs created by the Deployment Manager even if the object modification logs are not enabled.

You must refresh the package table when you perform Build, Deploy, or Rollback. You can refresh the table by using the following options:

  • Click Refresh to manually refresh the package table.
  • Select Preferences > Set Refresh Interval to set the time interval in minutes, to automatically refresh the package table.

 

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