The complete, flawless, and reliable deployment of configuration changes from one Siebel enterprise to another is a complex endeavour that cannot be accomplished with a single tool.
In this chapter, we introduced the major deployment tool, namely Siebel Application Deployment Manager (ADM). The chapter discussed the main steps to enable ADM functionality on the Siebel Management Server infrastructure.
The two main processes of an ADM deployment cycle are the exporting and packaging process and the deployment process. The exporting and packaging process relies on a variety of tools depending on the type of data to be migrated.
The chapter discussed both the manual and automatic possibilities to export and package administrative data, repository data, and files.
The ADM deployment process relies on a single deployment batch file and the commands supported by it. A sample script has been provided in this chapter to demonstrate how the deployment batch file can be used to automate the deployment...