Deployment is a critical task for operational administrators. With the Grid Control Software Library and deployment procedure capabilities, administrators can manage BPEL suitcases, and schedule and automate deployment.
In this chapter, we discussed how to utilize the out-of-the-box deployment functionality with Grid Control. The administrator can view the deployment procedures, pick the right one, schedule the deploy, and observe the deploy taking place. This is a powerful automation framework that can be utilized for deploying repeatedly and on multiple environments at the same time. There are other variations of these deployments that might be useful, such as running a custom script after the end of the deployment.
With Grid Control release 10gR5, the deployment plan (introduced with BPEL 10.1.3.4) methodology is also supported. In other words, a deployment plan file with details of partner links for test, stage, and production environments can be uploaded to the Software Library...