Types Of Ace Rules: Best Practice And Conflict; Connecting To Existing Application Catalogs - Novell ADMINSTUDIO 9.5 User Manual

Types of ACE Rules: Best Practice and Conflict

When performing conflict analysis with ConflictSolver, you will be using two different types of ACE Rules:
• Best Practice ACE Rules
•
Conflict ACE Rules
Best Practice ACE Rules
Best Practice ACEs are rules that internally perform checks against the structure of a Windows Installer package to
enforce Microsoft best practices. Best Practice ACEs are similar to Microsoft ICEs. Both Microsoft ICEs (custom
actions written by Microsoft used during validation) and Best Practice ACEs (custom actions included with
ConflictSolver used during conflict analysis) are used to determine if an installation package is built according to
Windows Installer standards.
When testing an installation package against a Best Practice ACE Rule, there is no target package involved. The
source installation package is tested to see if it meets the standards defined in the ACEs.
Conflict ACE Rules
Conflict ACE Rules are used to detect conflicts between two Windows Installer packages. You can use Conflict
ACE Rules to detect conflicts between one or more Windows Installer source packages and one or more target
packages in the Application Catalog. Conflict evaluation is done for each source package against each target
package.
Note • Multiple source package selection is only supported for internal packages (packages which have already
been imported into the Application Catalog).
Check Conflicts Across All Source and Target Packages
In order to provide a more meaningful conflict analysis, you can choose to have ConflictSolver perform conflict
analysis of each source package against every other source package and each target package against every other
target package. This option is enabled by selecting the Check conflicts across all source and target
packages option on the Rules tab of the ConflictSolver Options dialog box. By default, this option is not
selected.

Connecting to Existing Application Catalogs

From ConflictSolver, you can choose to connect to a standalone Application Catalog or the AdminStudio
Enterprise Server Application Catalog.
For more information, see
AdminStudio 9.5 User Guide
Chapter 13: Identifying and Resolving Application Conflicts Using ConflictSolver
Connecting to an Existing Application
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