This topic describes staging information to help you understand
the Master and Satellite scenario in the upcoming topics. Information
such as location of databases, software application name and versions,
delimiter usage, and other details give the scenario depth to build
a useful example.
This scenario includes two independent databases:
one is located in Boston, Massachusetts (MA), and the other is in
Chicago, Illinois (IL). These two sites concurrently develop version
2.0 of a software application that displays "Hello world". This scenario
uses a release value of hello/2.0. The first release
of the application was developed and released by the Boston site.
A released baseline for this was created using a release of hello/1.0 and
has a member project of hello-1.0.
Each site develops a part of the application and
maintains its own integration prep project. The
Master and Satellite methodology is used. MA is the master and controls
the master integration and released projects. IL is the satellite.
These assumptions are made:
- The sites use the same, or nearly the same, model.
- Both sites use the default DCM delimiter ("#").
- Both sites use the default release delimiter ("/").
- Both sites use task-based CM.
- Both sites use a hello/2.0 release
value using the Distributed process.
- Both sites use automatic receive, and security is
set up at each site to support automatic receives.
- DCM sends email notification to both the Boston
and Chicago DCM managers when it generates or receives a transfer
package.
- The sites are connected by a wide area network that
transfers data using remote copy commands.