Actian Integrations : Best Practice – Change Control Steps between Actian Server systems
Recently, I was reviewing a client’s Data Integrator server to deploy an approved package from there Staging to their production system. I wanted to make sure that the full setup was documented as a Best Practice to be used with all our clients using Actian.
1. On your Staging server, connect your Production Server as an Option for Deployment.
a. First click on the Config tool --- see pink arrow in picture below
b. First hit the Plus Button ( see #1), then add the Url to the Server (#2) and the port (#3).
c. Test the Connection and then Save.
2. Now once you have a Deployed package to the Staging server that has been QA’d approved, you are ready to Deploy to Production. So first click the Deploy button.
3. Choose the Select Server radio button, and the appropriate Server from the pulldown Arrow.
4. Next choose the package version to Deploy
5. Then press the DEPLOY button.
The package is now deployed
Package Management
Now we want to setup Integration Manager to be able to flip between Staging and Production Easily.
The first thing we want to make sure of is that each server is named appropriately. We can do this on the Admin Designer. On the Settings Tab make sure the server name is descriptive. In this case it is labelled as “Data Integrator Server – Staging”
Do this for each server.
Now that that is taken care of, we need to Log into Integration Manager in Staging First.
Go to the Server Groups tab.
This tab is similar to the one above. Make sure each server is listed and if not, press the Add button and fill out the Host Name and Port and then Test it.
Once all the servers are added. Then you can go to the Integrations tab. From here you can choose the server you want to view.
Each user that uses Integration Manager has to do this, but it greatly improves the Customer Experience.
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