Manage editions

The manage editions page shows details of each edition of an application. With this page you can move an edition through a lifecycle, for example, activation, validation, rollout, and deactivation.

To view this page, click Applications > Edition Control Center > application_name.

If you are a user with either a monitor or an operator role, you can only view the edition manger information. If you have the role of configurator or administrator, you have all the configuration privileges for the application edition manager.

Edition

Name of the edition. For example, 1.0.

Description

User-provided description of edition.

Target

Deployment targets to which modules for the edition are mapped. That is, servers or cluster on which this edition is installed.

State

Current state of edition: Active, validation, or inactive.

Actions
  • Activate

    Changes an edition state from inactive to active. Only active editions can be started.

  • Validate

    Changes an edition state from inactive to validation. Entering validation mode creates a clone of the edition's current deployment targets and prepares the edition to be started on the cloned deployment targets for validation. When an edition that is in validation mode is rolled out, the rollout acts on the original deployment targets and the cloned deployment targets are deleted.

  • Rollout
    Changes an edition state from inactive to active. You can use either atomic or group rollout.
    • Group rollout divides the target cluster into groups for roll out. Group rollout is most effective when your cluster is large. You can specify the group size with a sub-option. The group size gives the number of nodes to process at a time. The default is 1.
    • Atomic rollout replaces half the servers in the deployment target at a time. The edition that is replaced is put into the inactive state. The replacement is done cooperatively with the on demand router to ensure that no application requests are lost during the edition transition. This rollout strategy ensures no loss of service for single server deployment targets.
  • Deactivate

    Changes an edition state from active to inactive. Inactive editions cannot be started.




WebSphere Extended Deployment information center (online)

Related information
Edition control center

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