Activate the Deployment Management use case scope

Alfabet supports two use cases to manage deployments. The use cases are mutually exclusive. Both Device Management and Deployment Management use cases are available with either the license IT Transformation Server - FastLane or IT Transformation Server - Enterprise.

The use case Device Management is activated per default. In this case, applications are associated with physical and virtual servers via the reference array property Hosting Servers (SAG_Devices ). A direct reference exists between applications and physical/virtual servers, and the Deployment Structure view in the Technology Context page in the application content area shows the relationships between business capabilities, applications, servers, and locations.

The Deployment Management use case enables deployments to be explicitly defined that describe how the application is deployed on the physical and virtual servers. In this case, users can create a deployment in the Deployments view in the Technology Context page in the application content area. The Deployment Structure view shows the relationships between business capabilities, applications, deployments, and servers. Navigation to the deployment content area displays a Deployment Structure view where users can rescan the deployment so that a deployment element is created for each local component that the application uses.

Once the Deployment Management user case is activate, the necessary views to capture and analyze deployments will be added to your Alfabet solution and relevant business questions will be updated to reflect the deployments. You can then migrate existing references between applications and physical and virtual servers to deployments.

FastLane Customers: To implement the Deployment Management use case:

  1. Contact Alfabet Support and request the use case to be activated.
  2. Once deployment management is activated, execute the ADIF job DataMigrationDeploymentManagement . Open the Alfabet user interface via the Portfolio Admin user profile. Go to ADIF Jobs Administration, expand the Data Migration section in the dataset and trigger the ADIF scheme DataMigrationDeploymentManagement.

Enterprise Customers: To implement the Deployment Management use case:

  1. Go to Alfabet Expand > Presentation tab > XML Objects > Administration > ProductUseCaseScope . Alternatively you can access the XML object via Alfabet Administrator. connect to the server alias and click XML Objects > ProductUseCaseScope.
    • To implement the Deployment Management use case, specify the XML attributes <UseCase Name="Deployment Management" Active="true"/> and <UseCase Name="Device Management" Active="false"/>
    • To implement the Device Management use case, specify the XML attributes <UseCase Name="Deployment Management" Active="false"/> and <UseCase Name="Device Management" Active="true"/>
  2. Restart the Microsoft Internet Information Services®.
  3. Execute the ADIF job DataMigrationDeploymentManagement . Open the Alfabet user interface via the Portfolio Admin user profile. Go to ADIF Jobs Administration, expand the Data Migration section in the dataset and trigger the ADIF scheme DataMigrationDeploymentManagement . Alternatively you can access the ADIF job via Alfabet Expand.